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Musical artist

Rosalyn Tureck (December 14, 1913 – July 17, 2003)^[1] was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

However, she had a wide-ranging repertoire that included works by composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Frédéric Chopin, as well as more modern composers such as David Diamond, Luigi Dallapiccola and William Schuman.

Turck rosalyn biography of william

Diamond's Piano Sonata No. 1 was inspired by Tureck's playing. She was one of the greatest pianist of the 20th Century and she is also known as the High Priestess of Bach.^[2][3]

Biography

Tureck was born in Chicago, Illinois, the third of three daughters of Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel Tureck (né Turk; Rosalyn’s father was of Turkish descent) and Monya (Lipson) Tureck.

She was the granddaughter of a cantor from Kiev.^[4] The first of her teachers to recognize her special gifts for playing the music of Bach w