Lili Mandl

https://books.google.co.il/books?id=o8W_EU_8sG0C&printsec=frontcove...

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Kraus

http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/S_Roberson_Lili_1989.pdf

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Kraus-Lili.htm

Born: April 3, 1905 - Budapest, Hungary Died: November 6, 1986 - Asheville, North Carolina, USA

The Hungaria pianist, Lili Kraus, was born to an impoverished Hungarian mother and Czech father. She entered the Academy of Music there as a piano major at age 8. Taught by Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók, among others, she graduated in 1922, with top honors. She then attended the Vienna Konservatorium to study with Eduard Steuermann and Artur Schnabel, from whom she took master-classes. Starting in 1925, became a teacher there herself for six years.

In the 1930's, Lili Kraus toured both as soloist and as the recital partner of violinist Szymon Goldberg, with whom she recorded L.v. Beethoven and W.A. Mozart sonatas for British Parlophone in 1935 and 1937, along with solo reperoire. Her other specialties included Frédéric Chopin, Haydn, Schubert, and Béla Bartók.

When Lili Kraus married philosopher Otto Mandl, they converted to Catholicism, living in Italy until the cloud of Nazism compelled them to move to the Dutch East Indies. While touring in 1942, Kraus, her husband, and their two children were arrested in Indonesia, and sent to separate prisoner-of-war camps on Java for nearly three years. They survived principally because the Japanese knew her name and her recordings. A Japanese conductor reputedly provided food as well as musical scores until their rescue by British forces. For two years Kraus played in Australia and New Zealand (where she became a British subject), and in South Africa too, before returning to England in 1948, where she resumed her career before debuting in the USA, in 1949. She also resumed recording, albeit with second-class Viennese orchestras and conductors for Vox, mainly, in concertos by W.A. Mozart and L.v. Beethoven, but later on for Vanguard in the USA. During the 1966-1967 season, she performed 25 of W.A. Mozart's 27 concertos in New York City on a single series, and the next season played his complete keyboard sonatas.

Birth record

"Hungary Civil Registration, 1895-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6BB9-T3D?cc=1452460&wc... : 2 July 2019), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kis-Kun > Budapest (VI. Kerület) > Births (Születtek) 1903 (jan) > image 113 of 532; Archiv der Stadt Budapest (Archive of the City), Hungary.

Death record

"North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99G8-5V9H?cc=1584959 : 29 September 2022), > image 1 of 1; State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh.