Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Russian-American pianist and conductor (1878–1936)
Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch (also Gabrilowitsch; Russian: Осип Сoломонович Габрилович, romanized: Osip Solomonovich Gabrilovich; 7 February [O.S. 26 January] 1878 – 14 September 1936) was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer.
Biography
Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born into a Jewish family in Saint Petersburg. His parents were Salomon Gabrilowitsch and Rose Segall.
He studied the piano and composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, with Anton Rubinstein, Anatoly Lyadov, Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Medtner among others. After graduating in 1894, he spent two years studying piano with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna.
In July 1905 he recorded ten pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano, one of the first pianists to do so. Between 1915 and 1927, he subsequently recorded at least fifteen more reproducing rolls for Duo-Art and at least five reproducing rolls for Ampico.
On 6 October 1909, he married Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens, a singer who appeared with him in recital. On 18 August 1910, their only child, Nina, was born at Mark Twain's home Stormfield in Redding, Connecticut.
Nina, the last known lineal descendant of Mark Twain, died on 16 January 1966 in a Los Angeles hotel.
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