HORSZOWSKI IN JAPAN 1991 1

Mieczyslaw Horszowski [23 - 22 May 1993] Country: Poland Polish-born pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski performed his last recital at age 99, slightly more than a year before his death in 1993. Although his recording career only goes back to 1936, the traditions of playing he represented are much older than that, dating back to the early Romantic era. He was taught to play the piano by his mother, a student of one of Chopin's students, and his main teacher, Theodor Leschetizky, was a protégé of Czerny