Gisella Grosz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gisella Grosz

Hungarian pianist

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1875

Place of Birth: Șimleu Silvaniei, Sălaj County, Romania

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1942

Profession: pianist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Gisella Grosz

  • Gisella Grosz, originally Gizella Grosz (26 November 1875, Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary – 1942, Riga Ghetto, Latvia) was a Hungarian classical pianist. Grosz was born into a Jewish family in Szilágysomlyó, then Austria-Hungary, today ?imleu Silvaniei, Romania. She studied piano at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest with István Thomán.
  • She gave her first concerts in 1897 Budapest and in 1898 and 1899 in Leipzig and Berlin with good success.
  • From 1898 on she lived constantly in Berlin, where she studied with Teresa Carreño. She performed as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1902, 1905, 1908 und 1909.
  • In February 6, 1906 she recorded as one of the first female pianists for Welte-Mignon.In 1911 she resigned from her concert career to marry Adolf Weissmann (1873-1929), a well known Berlin music critic and author of biographies of Bizet, Chopin, Verdi, and Puccini.
  • After her retirement from the concert circuit, Gisella Grosz continued as a teacher of the piano.
  • With her husband, she hosted frequent musicales in the 1920s, until his untimely death in 1929.
  • She was listed in Berlin telephone directories from 1937 to 1940 as Gisella Weissmann (Weißmann).
  • In 1940 the statutory Jewish middle name Sara was added to her listing, and in 1941 Jews were omitted altogether.
  • In January 1942 she was deported to Riga, Latvia, and died there in that year. Grosz and Weissmann had in 1908 a child born out of wedlock, Ilse.
  • The daughter became a pianist too, taught mainly by her mother in Berlin and Konrad Wolff in Paris.
  • From 1933 on Ilse Weissmann lived in France, England and Italy and finally emigrated to the US, where she died in 2000.

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