鲁道夫·菲尔库什尼（Rudolf Firkusny），美籍捷克钢琴家。1912年2月11日生于摩拉维亚（Moravian）。1919年跟随雅纳切克（Leos Janacek）学习钢琴与作曲，1920～1927年在布尔诺音乐学院学习，师从库佐娃。之后又去布拉格音乐学院随库尔茨（Vilem Kurz）深造。
1922年当他还是学生的时候，就在布拉格和中欧开始了演奏活动。
1933年到伦敦，1938年到北美，1943年到南美，1959年到澳大利亚，1985年到北京旅行演奏，足迹遍及世界各地。他的演奏曲目除了从莫扎特到勃拉姆斯的作品之外，还包括近现代作曲家的作品。他首演了巴伯（Samuel Barber）、吉纳斯特拉（Alberto Ginastera）、汉森（Howard Hanson）、马尔蒂努（Bohuslav Martinu）、梅诺蒂（Gian Carlo Menotti）的协奏曲和钢琴曲。德沃夏克被人遗忘的钢琴协奏曲由于他的演奏而获得新生。
他的演奏委婉动人、泰然自若。他对于室内乐非常喜爱，曾与法国大提琴家富尼耶（Pierre Fournier）、美国大提琴家皮亚蒂戈尔斯基（Gregor Piatigorsky）、美国小提琴家莫里尼（Erika Morini）和英国小提琴家普利姆罗斯（William Primrose）举行奏鸣曲演奏会。
除了演奏之外，定居美国后，他还在伯克希尔音乐中心和茱莉亚音乐学校任教。作品有钢琴协奏曲、弦乐四重奏、钢琴小品和歌曲等。
1994年7月19日卒于纽约。
Rudolf Firkusny(Czech: [ˈrudolf ˈfɪrkuʃniː]; 11 February 1912 – 19 July 1994) was a Czech-born, Czech-American classical pianist.
Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkusny started his musical studies with the composers Leos Janacek and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilem Kurz. Later he studied with the legendary pianists Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in 1933 and New York in 1938. He escaped the Nazis in 1939, fled to Paris, later settled in New York and eventually became a U.S. citizen.
Rudolf Firkusnyhad a broad repertoire and performed with skill the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms as well as Mussorgsky and Debussy. However, he became known especially for his performances of the Czech composers Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvorak, Janacek, and Bohuslav Martinů (who wrote a number of works for him).
Rudolf Firkusnychampioned Dvorak's only piano concerto, which he played with many different conductors and orchestras around the world and also recorded several times. Originally, he performed the revised version made by his teacher Kurz and even arranged it further; yet in the end, he came back to the original Firkusny score.
Firkusny was also a devoted chamber player, and among his most prominent partners were cellists Pierre Fournier, Gregor Piatigorsky, János Starker, and Lynn Harrell; violinists Nathan Milstein and Erika Morini; violist William Primrose; and the Juilliard String Quartet. He also gave many first performances of contemporary composers, not only Czech such as by his friends Martinů and Vítězslava Kaprálová but also Howard Hanson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, and Alberto Ginastera.
鲁道夫·菲尔库什尼（Rudolf Firkusny），美籍捷克钢琴家。1912年2月11日生于摩拉维亚（Moravian）。1919年跟随雅纳切克（Leos Janacek）学习钢琴与作曲，1920～1927年在布尔诺音乐学院学习，师从库佐娃。之后又去布拉格音乐学院随库尔茨（Vilem Kurz）深造。
1922年当他还是学生的时候，就在布拉格和中欧开始了演奏活动。
1933年到伦敦，1938年到北美，1943年到南美，1959年到澳大利亚，1985年到北京旅行演奏，足迹遍及世界各地。他的演奏曲目除了从莫扎特到勃拉姆斯的作品之外，还包括近现代作曲家的作品。他首演了巴伯（Samuel Barber）、吉纳斯特拉（Alberto Ginastera）、汉森（Howard Hanson）、马尔蒂努（Bohuslav Martinu）、梅诺蒂（Gian Carlo Menotti）的协奏曲和钢琴曲。德沃夏克被人遗忘的钢琴协奏曲由于他的演奏而获得新生。
他的演奏委婉动人、泰然自若。他对于室内乐非常喜爱，曾与法国大提琴家富尼耶（Pierre Fournier）、美国大提琴家皮亚蒂戈尔斯基（Gregor Piatigorsky）、美国小提琴家莫里尼（Erika Morini）和英国小提琴家普利姆罗斯（William Primrose）举行奏鸣曲演奏会。
除了演奏之外，定居美国后，他还在伯克希尔音乐中心和茱莉亚音乐学校任教。作品有钢琴协奏曲、弦乐四重奏、钢琴小品和歌曲等。
1994年7月19日卒于纽约。
Rudolf Firkusny(Czech: [ˈrudolf ˈfɪrkuʃniː]; 11 February 1912 – 19 July 1994) was a Czech-born, Czech-American classical pianist.
Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkusny started his musical studies with the composers Leos Janacek and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilem Kurz. Later he studied with the legendary pianists Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in 1933 and New York in 1938. He escaped the Nazis in 1939, fled to Paris, later settled in New York and eventually became a U.S. citizen.
Rudolf Firkusnyhad a broad repertoire and performed with skill the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms as well as Mussorgsky and Debussy. However, he became known especially for his performances of the Czech composers Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvorak, Janacek, and Bohuslav Martinů (who wrote a number of works for him).
Rudolf Firkusnychampioned Dvorak's only piano concerto, which he played with many different conductors and orchestras around the world and also recorded several times. Originally, he performed the revised version made by his teacher Kurz and even arranged it further; yet in the end, he came back to the original Firkusny score.
Firkusny was also a devoted chamber player, and among his most prominent partners were cellists Pierre Fournier, Gregor Piatigorsky, János Starker, and Lynn Harrell; violinists Nathan Milstein and Erika Morini; violist William Primrose; and the Juilliard String Quartet. He also gave many first performances of contemporary composers, not only Czech such as by his friends Martinů and Vítězslava Kaprálová but also Howard Hanson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, and Alberto Ginastera.
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