Hannah Horovitz (21 October 1936 – 4 March 2010) was a British classical music promoter.
Hannah Horovitz was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter and youngest child of the publisher
Béla Horovitz
Béla Horovitz (8 April 1898 – 8 March 1955) was a Hungarian-born British publisher, and the co-founder in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, of Phaidon Press.
Bela Horovitz was born in Budapest. He was the co-founder in Vienna in 1923, with Lud ...
and his wife Lotte.
Her brother
Joseph Horovitz
Joseph Horovitz (26 May 1926 – 9 February 2022) was an Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata '' Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo'', which achieved widespread popularity in schools. Horovitz also com ...
was a composer and conductor.
Her father had co-founded
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press is a global publisher of books on art, architecture, design, fashion, photography, and popular culture, as well as cookbooks, children's books, and travel books. The company is based in London and New York City, with additional of ...
in Vienna in 1923, with
Ludwig Goldscheider, but with the rise of Nazism, they moved to London in 1938.
She started Hannah Horovitz Management in 1971, and her clients included the pianists
András Schiff
Sir András Schiff (; born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bac ...
,
Craig Sheppard and
Ilana Vered
Ilana Vered (; born December 6, 1943, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a concert pianist and professor of piano.
Biography
From age 13 to 15 Vered attended the Paris Conservatoire, which awarded her first prize in piano upon her graduation; among her teac ...
, the
Cleveland Quartet and the flautist
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and spurring contemporary composers, ...
.
References
1936 births
2010 deaths
Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom
Music promoters
Women music promoters
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