Us Conductors is a fictonalized novel of a relationship that included a classical violin prodigy who was the sister of a pianist named what?
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Us Conductors Us Conductors is a debut novel by Canadian writer Sean Michaels. Published in 2014 by Random House in Canada and Tin House in the United States, the novel is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Léon Theremin (also known as Lev Termen), the inventor of the theremin, and Clara Rockmore, the musician regarded as the instrument's first virtuoso player.
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Clara Rockmore Clara Rockmore (née Reisenberg, March 9, 1911 – May 10, 1998) was a classical violin prodigy and a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument. She was the sister of pianist Nadia Reisenberg.
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Emilia Chopin Emilia Chopin (9 November 1812 – 10 April 1827) was a younger sister of Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin. As a child, she showed literary and artistic talent, but she died on 10 April 1827, aged 14. The cause of death was probably tuberculosis.
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Double Concerto (Delius) The Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra by Frederick Delius is a double concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra in C minor, composed between April and June 1915 while Delius lived in Watford, England. The work is dedicated to the sister duo of violinist May Harrison and cellist Beatrice Harrison, who premiered the piece under conductor Henry Wood on February 21, 1920 in Queen's Hall, London.
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Lambert Orkis Lambert Orkis (born 1946, Philadelphia) is an American United States-based internationally accomplished classical pianist. His career has been based on many differing roles: ranging from being the pianist of choice for Anne-Sophie Mutter for works of piano and violin chamber music since 1988 (mainly containing sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, and Schubert). For their interpretation of the Beethoven and Mozart violin sonatas, the duo was honored by a German Grammy rsp. and by a French "choc de l’année".
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Sarah Burney Sarah Harriet Burney (29 August 1772 – 8 February 1844) was an English novelist, the daughter of musicologist and composer Charles Burney, and half-sister of the novelist and diarist Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay).
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Maria Anna Thekla Mozart Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (September 25, 1758 – January 25, 1841), called "Marianne", known as Bäsle ("little cousin"), was the cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist Mary Louise Curtis (August 6, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts – January 4, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the only child of the magazine and newspaper magnate Cyrus Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, the founder and editor of the "Ladies Home Journal".
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Elizabeth Pitcairn Elizabeth Pitcairn (born December 5, 1973) is an American classical violinist. She has concertized widely as a soloist and is noted for performing on the 1720 "Red Mendelssohn" Antonio Stradivari violin that is said to have inspired the film "The Red Violin".
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Shadows on the Rock Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot.
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Katia Mann Katia Mann (born "Katharina Hedwig Pringsheim;" July 24, 1883 – April 25, 1980) was the youngest child and only daughter (among four sons) of the German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her marriage. Katia was also a granddaughter of the writer and women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm. Her twin brother Klaus Pringsheim was a conductor, composer, music writer and music pedagogue, active in Germany and Japan. She married the writer Thomas Mann.
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The Pianoplayers The Pianoplayers is a 1986 novel by Anthony Burgess, drawing heavily on his memories of his father, a pub piano-player. The narrator, Ellen Henshaw, is a prostitute who later becomes a madam. Her father, Billy, plays the piano in the cinema, accompanying silent movies. it was published by Arbor House in the US (ISBN  ), and Hutchinson in the UK.
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Katerina Maier Katerina Maier-Schiatti (fl. c. 1800) was a Russian composer, the daughter of violinist and composer Luigi Schiatti who lived in Russia from 1760 and played in the court orchestra. She published a set of three piano sonatas dedicated to Count Platon Zubov in St. Petersburg and a piano concerto in London around 1800.
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Anna Caroline Oury Anna Caroline Oury ("née" De Belleville), also known as Ninette de Belleville, Ninette von Belleville or Ninette de Belleville-Oury (24 June 1808 – 22 July 1880), was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry.
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Albert Stern (violinist) Violinist Albert Ivan Stern was born in New York City. His parents, father Murray Abraham Shmulevitch and mother Grace Sara Stern (née Gold), were both Jewish and born in Poland. Grace Gold immigrated to the US as a child and Murray immigrated later after graduating from Humboldt University of Berlin as a Doctor of medicine. After arriving in the US, Murray entered a lifelong career in business sales and, following in the footsteps of his father, became a prominent builder. Both his mother and father came from families of predominantly musicians. He had an older brother Stanley Stern (later known as Jack Stern) and an older sister Florence London. Stern has 4 children, daughters Adina T. Stern, a prominent attorney, Aura L. Stern, a financier, daughter Shereen A. Stern, a nurse, and son Shawn Stern, a novelist. He is married to Patricia A Stern (Née Trzaska).
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Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield (née Ware) (1816–1877) was an American writer of poetry and fiction in Mississippi. Together with her sister Eleanor Percy Lee, she was first of the published authors in the Percy family. Its most noted authors have been William Alexander Percy and Walker Percy of the twentieth century. Warfield's first novel "The Household of Bouverie" (1860), published anonymously, was very popular; and she published eight more under her own name.
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Harriet Theresa Comstock Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860–1925) was an American novelist and author of children's books.
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Ray Lev Ray Lev (May 8, 1912 – May 20, 1968) was an American classical pianist. One year after her birth in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, her father, a synagogue cantor, and mother, a concert singer, brought her to the United States.
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Timothee Adamowski Tymoteusz "Timothee" Adamowski (March 24, 1858April 18, 1943) was a Polish-born American conductor, composer, and violinist. Born in Warsaw, he studied in that city's conservatory, later moving on to further studies in Paris. He served as the first conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Tymoteusz was the uncle of Polish Olympic hockey player Tadeusz Adamowski and the humanitarian Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni.
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Marianne Davies Marianne Davies (1743 or 1744, England – c. 1818) was an English musician, and the sister of the classical soprano Cecilia Davies. She was a singer who also played flute and harpsichord.
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Corinne Roosevelt (September 27, 1861 – February 17, 1933) was an American poet, writer, lecturer, and public speaker. She was also the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Delfina Potocka Delfina Potocka, "née" Komar (March 18072 April 1877), a Polish countess, was a friend and muse to Polish expatriate artists Frédéric Chopin and Zygmunt Krasiński. She was noted for her beauty, intellect and artistic gifts. In her youth she was a piano student of Chopin's.