Paula Szalit

Deceased Person

1887 – 1920

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Who was Paula Szalit?

Pauline Szalitowna, more commonly known as Paula Szalit was a Polish pianist and composer.

Paula Szalit was born in Lemberg in 1886. She studied at what is now the Lviv Conservatory and then in Vienna with Robert Fischof, Josef Hofmann, Heinrich Schenker, Eugen d'Albert, and Theodor Leschetizky.

Szalit was regarded as a child prodigy and made numerous appearances in Vienna, Germany and Poland. She received generally superlative notices, such as these:

"The musical clientele at Vienna are much interested in an infant phenomena, Paula Szalit, aged ten. When she was scarcely out of long clothes, she would pick out on the piano, with one finger, the notes of a tune that she had heard sung, and long before she had any idea of printed notes she would play melodies of her own composition—songs, dances, etc. Her musical adroitness was not cultivated until she was seven years old, when she was given lessons, first by her brother, and later by Prof. Fischof and by Eugen d'Albert.

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Born
1887
Died
1920

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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