Annie Fischer

Annie Fischer was a Hungarian piano virtuoso who lived for many years in England. She was noted in particular for her sensitivity in Mozart's piano concertos, and recorded mainly for EMI. Fischer made her debut at the age of ten and studied with Ernst von Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Her performance of the Liszt Sonata in B minor won Fischer first prize at the 1933 Liszt International Piano Competition, but her concert career was barely underway when war broke out; Fischer fled to Sweden. Afterwards, Fischer returned to Hungary, and although she made her New ...