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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Maria Lidka
- Maria Lidka (May 27, 1914–12 December 2013) was a German-born classical violinist.She was born Marianne Louise Liedtke in Berlin into a highly cultured Jewish family.
- Her father was an appellate court lawyer, a role he lost in April 1933 with the rise of the Nazis.
- She was a student of Josef Wolfsthal and Max Rostal.
- She fled to London in 1934 and taught German and violin lessons, as well as performing with the pianist Peter Gellhorn and her housemate, cellist Eva Heinitz.
- In 1939, she played at London's Wigmore Hall.
- In 1941, she joined the Czech Trio alongside Walter Susskind and Karel Horitz.
- To sound Czech, she changed her name to Maria Lidka. After the war, she performed work by a number of contemporary British composers including Michael Tippett, Richard Rodney Bennett and Peter Racine Fricker, as well as working with Benjamin Britten and performing with the London String Trio.
- She also appeared on BBC radio on the Third Programme and in the Proms.In 1955, she married Walter May, a Jewish emigrant businessman from Cologne with which she had two sons.
- Walter's brother Edward was a prominent cellist.
- Walter died in 1963.
- Lidka became Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music in London, a role she served in from 1963 to 1985.
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