Angelica Morales von Sauer
Mexican pianist and composer (1911–1996)
Angelica Morales von Sauer (1911–1996) was a Mexican composer, pianist and professor of piano.
Life
von Sauer was born on January 11, 1911, in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, the daughter of Puerto Rican violinist Angel Celestino Morales and her Mexican mother Dolores Arellano who was a pianist. At six months old, the family moved to Aguascalientes, Mexico. Angelica received her first piano lessons from her mother, and gave her first recital in 1921. At the age of twelve she was heard by the Russian pianist Josef Lhevinne, who was on tour in Mexico and urged the government to grant her a scholarship to go study abroad, and Angelica moved to Berlin where she auditioned for the pianist Ferrucio Busoni. While Busoni was no longer taking students, he indicated Angelica should study with this protoge Egon Petri. She enrolled in the Hochschule für Musik Berlin, and started studying with Emil von Sauer. In 1925 Angelica moved to Paris to further her musical study, and in the middle of 1926 she spent four months in Mexico where she studied with Josef Hofmann. In 1928 she moved to the United States where she studied with Josef Lhevinne in New York. In 1930 she went to Bad Gastein initially to study with Emil von Sauer again, and by 1939 they were married.
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