Natalia Janotha was a Polish

Poles

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 pianist and composer.

Biography

Natalia Janotha was born in Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Poland

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, the daughter of Julius Janothy (1819–1883) who was a composer and teacher at the Institute of Music in Warsaw. She started piano lessons with her father at a young age and later studied music in Berlin

Berlin

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 with Ernst and Woldemar Rudorff Bargiel, with Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann

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, and possibly had lessons from Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

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. She performed her first recital in 1868 and toured Europe

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 as a concert pianist. She was known as an interpreter of Chopin, and in 1885 she became the Imperial Court pianist in Berlin. She became noted as a mountain climber, sometimes wearing men's pants, and lived for a few years in London

London

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, but was deported to her homeland in 1916 during the politics of World War I

World War I

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. She died in The Hague

The Hague

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in 1932.

Works

Janotha composed about 400 works, mostly for piano. Selected works include:

• Mountain Scenes, dedicated to Shumann
• Tatras
• The Impression from Zakopane
• Morskie Oko
• Sabala
• Gerlach
• Kościelisko
• Bandit