- Elly Ney
Elly Ney (
September 27 ,1882 ,Düsseldorf -March 31 ,1968 ,Tutzing ) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular inGermany .She was born in
Düsseldorf , where her mother was a music instructor and her father was a registrar.Finscher, Ludwig; Blume, Friedrich (1994). "Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart". ISBN 978-3476410221.] . Her grandmother introduced her to the works of Beethoven, and supported her piano playing. She studied at Cologne with Isidore Seiss, Teodor Leszetycki and K. Bötcher, and in Vienna withEmil von Sauer . She taught at the Cologne Conservatory for three years, then became a touring virtuoso. In 1927 she was given the honorary freedom of Beethoven's birth placeBonn . In 1932 she founded the Elly Ney Trio with Max Strub (violin) and Ludwig Hoelscher (cello). She traveled to the USA, playing inCarnegie Hall , and many other parts of the world.She was married twice; first, in 1911, to the conductor
Willem van Hoogstraten . They divorced in 1927 and she married an American, Paul Allais (a Chicago coal dealer.)During the Third Reich she joined the
Nazi Party in 1937"Vor 125 wurde die große Beethoven-Interpretin Elly Ney geboren". In: "Leipziger Volkszeitung". 9/28/2007. p. 10] , participated in "cultural education" camps, and became an honorary member of theLeague of German Girls . [ [http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/kalenderblatt/674472 Romantikerin am Klavier] .Deutschlandfunk 09/27/2007] . She held anti-Semite views. After the war, the city of Bonn imposed a stage ban on her. In 1952 a request for lifting the ban was rejected, stating that Ney was a "pronounced National Socialist". [Internatonales Biographisches Archiv. No. 21 (5/13/1986). ISSN|00209457.]References
External links
* [http://www.amica.org/Live/amica_Organization/amica-Hall-of-Fame_Members/Ney.htm]
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NAME=Ney, Elly
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH=27. September 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH=Düsseldorf
DATE OF DEATH=31. March 1968
PLACE OF DEATH=Tutzing
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