About Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Friend of Faure, collaborator of Casals, teacher of Murray Perahia and Andras Schiff, Mieczyslaw Horszowski began performing before the public since the age of 10. A child prodigy, he played Bach at the age of 3, and later studied with Leschetizky. He moved from his native Poland to Milan in 1922, and remained there until 1942, when he became a faculty member at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music where his last record for Nonesuch was recorded.
Well-known for his chamber music performances with, among others, Josef Szigeti, the Budapest Quartet, and Pablo Casals, Horszowski’s solo work has only been widely celebrated in the past ten years. His recital schedule included concerts in the world’s most prestigious halls, with a 1990 Carnegie Hall performance that ranked as “the concert of the season”, according to the city’s reviewers. Horszowski continued to perform until his death in 1992.
