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Elisabeth Leonskaja
pianist
Since 1945
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Elisabeth Leonskaja (born 23 November 1945) is an Austrian pianist. Born and trained in Tbilisi, Georgia she won the Enesco Competition in Bucharest in 1964 which made an international career possible. She then studied at the Moscow Conservatory where she met Sviatoslav Richter who performed with her and became a close friend. She has lived in Vienna since 1978. Besides the great piano concertos, she has focused on the late sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.
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Elisabeth Leonskaïa (en russe : Елизавета Ильинична Леонская, Elizaveta Ilinitchna Leonskaïa) ou Leonskaja, née le 23 novembre 1945 à Tbilissi (RSS de Géorgie), est une pianiste russe et autrichienne.
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Discography
Albums
- 1986 Forellenquintett, A-dur (Piano Quintet in A, 'Trout')
- 1986 Trio B-dur op. 11 “Gassenhauer-Trio” / Duos WoO 27
- 1988 Modest Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Austellung / Peter Tschaikowsky: Grande sonata G-dur
- 1988 Brahms: Klavierquintett / Dvořák: Dumka aus Klavierquintett
- 1990 Klaviersonate h‐moll / Fantasia quasi sonata
- 1992 Piano Concerto 2 / Piano Sonata op. 37
- 1992 The Nocturnes
- 1992 Violin Concerto, op. 61 / Piano Concerto no. 2
- 1993 Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2 / Piano Sonata no. 2
- 1994 Die Schoene Magelone
- 1995 Piano sonatas with freely added accompaniment for a second piano by Grieg
- 1995 Piano Sonatas D 568 / D 850
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- 1996 Piano Quintet / Piano Trio no. 2
- 1996 Polonaises
- 1997 Piano Concertos 1-3 / Concert Fantasia
- 2001 Fantasy in C major "Wanderer" / Piano Sonata no. 18 (D. 894)
- 2003 Impromptus D. 899 / D. 935
- 2004 Piano Concertos no. 2 and no. 3
- 2006 Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 / Piano Music
- 2006 Piano Music Opus 116 - 119
- 2006 Quinteto “La trucha” / Sonata para piano
- 2008 String Quartets 1 & 2 / Piano Quintet
- 2008 Sehnsucht
- 2009 Chopin Masterworks
- 2009 Piano Works
- 2010 Masterworks, Vol. 2
- 2013 Paris
- 2019 Shostakovich
- 2022 Complete Piano Sonatas
- 2022 Piano Sonatas, D. 784 & 894
- 2022 Schubert The Complete Piano Sonatas
- 2023 Piano Concertos 3 & 4
- 2024 Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos
- 2024 Piano Works
- Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata / Vocalise / Dvořák: Polonaise / Sibelius: Malinconia
