Rudolf Serkin
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- Born
- 1903-03-28
- Died
- 1991-05-08
- Works
- 1
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- The First Twenty-Five Years Programs 1951-1975
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Acting
Known for
- The Golden Age of the Piano — Self1993
- Ozawa — Self1985
- The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978
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Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist. He was born in Cheb (Eger), Bohemia (now Czech Republic) to a Russian-Jewish family. Hailed as a child prodigy, Serkin was sent to Vienna at the age of nine, where he studied piano with Richard Robert and, later, composition with Joseph Marx making his public debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at 12. From 1918 to 1920 he studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg and participated actively in Schoenberg's Society for the P
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5 total works indexed
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
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- World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
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- The use of partial least squares path modeling in international marketing
· 2009 · cited 6,984x
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 March 1903
- Died
- 8 May 1991
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rudolf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cheb
- Place of death
- Guilford
- Child
- Peter Serkin
- Occupation
- musician
- Employer
- Curtis Institute of Music
- Languages spoken
- German
Connections
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1903 births1991 deaths20th-century American classical pianists20th-century American male pianists20th-century Czech Jews20th-century male pianistsAmerican male classical pianistsAmerican music educatorsAustrian classical pianistsCzech people of Russian-Jewish descentDeaths from cancer in VermontDeutsche Grammophon artists