Egon Petri
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Egon Petri (23 March 1881 – 27 May 1962) was a classical pianist.
Life and career
Petri's family was Dutch. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but he grew up in Dresden, where he attended the Kreuzschule. His father, a professional violinist, taught him how to play the violin. Petri, who was still a teen, performed with the Dresden Court Orchestra and with his father's string quartet. With Hermann Kretzschmar and Felix Draeseke at the Dresden Conservatory, he studied composition and theory.
Petri had also taken piano lessons at an early age and, eventually, with strong encouragement from Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Ferruccio Busoni, he concentrated on piano. Petri considered himself more a disciple than a scholar of his time, after he worked with Busoni, who greatly inspired him. Petri, a follower, took interest in Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt, who, along with Busoni himself, were at the forefront of his repertoire.
Petri and Busoni travelled to Switzerland during World War I, where they aided him in editing Bach's keyboard programs. Petri taught in Berlin in the 1920s; his students included Victor Borge, Stanley Gardner, Jan Hoffman, Gunnar Johansen, Hazel Harrison, Dimitar Nenov, and Vitya Vronsky. He became the first non-Soviet soloist to play in the Soviet Union in 1923.
In 1927, he moved to Zakopane, Poland, where, before the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he taught summer and early-fall piano master classes. He made recordings for a number of labels, including Columbia Records, beginning in 1929.
Petri escaped from Poland the day before the German invasion in September 1939, but he had to leave all his books, music, and letters, as well as his correspondence with Busoni (these papers survived and were recovered).
He went to the United States, first at Cornell University and then at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he worked as a student. He has never intended to play in Germany again. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1955.
Despite being a Dutch citizen until he was 74, he never lived in the Netherlands and was not familiar with the Dutch language, which was not at ease. They spoke German on one occasion when he appeared for Queen Wilhelmina. He was fluent in German, English, French, Italian, Polish, Polish, and Russian.
Earl Wild, Ozan Marsh, John Ogdon, John Ogdon, Dimitar Nenov, and Xenia Boodberg Lee were among Petri's students.
Petri, a brilliant technique and a nimble sonority, was a strong promoter of Beethoven's larger works, Liszt, and Brahms.
Petri died in Berkeley, California, on May 27th, 1962.