Moiseiwitsch Dead

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30107, 16 April 1963, Page 7

Moiseiwitsch Dead

(N.ZJ’ut.-Reuter — Copyright) LONDON, April 12. The Russian-born pianist. Benno Moiseiwitsch, died suddenly in hospital in London. He wah 73. He suffered a mild stroke rn the middle of March but was later said to be progressing satisfactorily. He bad recently returned from a tour of the United States.

Moisewitsch was bom at Odessa, in February, 1890. and educated at the Imperial School of Music in that city where he won the Anton Rubinstein prize Going to Vienna in 1905. he worked for three years under Lescbetitzky, the famous teacher of pianists, and then went to England. On his first appearance in

London at the Queen’s Hall in 1909, he achieved a triumph, being welcomed as a pianist who was entering the first rank. Later concerts confirmed this view and he wag in great demand everywhere. He made many recordings. He was married twice—in 1914 and 1929—and had two daughters and one son. The famous theatrical designer. Tanya Moiseiwitsch. is one of his two daughters by his first wife, Daisy Kennedy, the Australian violinist. He became a British citizen in 1937. An untiring traveller, he toured the United States nine times. Australia and New Zealand five times, the Far East three times. South America three times and South Africa twice