Natalia Janotha

Natalia Janotha

Natalia Janotha (8 June 1856 – 9 June 1932) was a Polish pianist and composer.

Biography

Natalia Janotha was born in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Julius Janothy (1819–1883) who was a composer and teacher at the Institute of Music in Warsaw. She started piano lessons with her father at a young age and later studied music in Berlin with Ernst and Woldemar Rudorff Bargiel, with Clara Schumann, and possibly had lessons from Johannes Brahms. She performed her first recital in 1868 and toured Europe as a concert pianist. She was known as an interpreter of Chopin, and in 1885 she became the Imperial Court pianist in Berlin. She became noted as a mountain climber, sometimes wearing men's pants,^[1] and lived for a few years in London, but was deported to her homeland in 1916 during the politics of World War I. She died in The Hague in 1932.^[2]

Works

Janotha composed about 400 works, mostly for piano. Selected works include:

• Mountain Scenes, dedicated to Shumann
• Tatras
• The Impression from Zakopane
• Morskie Oko
• Sabala
• Gerlach
• Kościelisko
• Bandit

References

1. ^ Zofia i Witold H. Paryscy, Internetowa Wielka Encyklopedia Tatrzańska
2. ^ Johnston, Rovi. "Artist:Natalia Janotha". http://www.answers.com/topic/natalia-janotha. Retrieved 21 October 2010. 

Persondata
Name	Janotha, Natalia
Alternative names
Short description	Pianist and Composer
Date of birth	8 June 1856
Place of birth	Warsaw, Poland
Date of death	9 June 1932
Place of death	The Hague, Netherlands