I never got to see her play, except I did have a recording of her that was lost
in the storm of 2005 here, but she was great, so better late than never.
ANIA DORFMANN, PIANIST, DIES
By BERNARD HOLLAND
Published: April 23, 1984
Ania Dorfmann, the pianist and teacher, died Saturday night at her Manhattan
apartment. She was 84 years old.
Miss Dorfmann had not played in public for many years, but she remained busy
until last June as one of the Juilliard School's venerable and venerated
teachers.
Miss Dorfmann toured the world as a pianist during her active life, and her
career included concerts in Spain during the Civil War. She came to the United
States before World War II and later recorded with Arturo Toscanini.
Ania Dorfmann was born in Odessa, Russia, and a high point of her early years
there was a joint recital with another child prodigy, Jascha Heifetz. At the
age of 12, Miss Dorfmann was accepted at the Paris Conservatory. Among her
teachers were Theodor Leschetizky and Isidor Philipp. Returning home for a
holiday with her mother in 1917, Miss Dorfmann was caught in the Russian
Revolution and only with difficulty made her way back to Paris. There she
settled into a busy life of performing.
After her New York debut at Town Hall in 1938, Olin Downes of The New York
Times wrote of Miss Dorfmann's ''delicious sparkle and wit'' and her ''vivacity
and charm.'' Of another Town Hall concert 13 years later, Harold C. Schonberg
said in The Times: ''Nowhere did Miss Dorfmann strive for large-scaled
conceptions and nowhere did she force. The result was an evening of refined,
pleasant piano playing.''
Miss Dorfmann is survived by a daughter, Natacha Stewart Ullmann, and two
grandchildren. Her husband, Vladimir Dorfmann, from whom the pianist was
divorced, died in London in World War II. A reception is tentatively scheduled
at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel late Wednesday afternoon.
[NOTE: The NY Times spells their way and I spell mine.]
Regards,
Roger
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