Moravian-born, Moravian-American classical pianist (1912-1994). Eigenh. Unterschrift auf Albumblatt. Hartford. Quer-8vo. 1 p.
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Namenszug auf Albumblatt. Firkušný had a broad repertoire and skillfully performed the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms as well as Mussorgsky and Debussy. However, he became known especially for his performances of the Czech composers Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Janáček, and Bohuslav Martinů (who wrote a number of works for him). Firkušný championed Dvořák's only piano concerto, which he played with many different conductors and orchestras around the world and also recorded several times.
Originally, he performed the revised version made by his teacher Kurz and even arranged it further; yet in the end, he came back to the original Dvořák score..