Artist Biography Available in: The French pianist, Vlado Perlemuter, was the third of four brothers whose father was a rabbi. Although born of Polish Jewish parents in Lithuania, at the age of 4 he was taken to Paris where he lived for the rest of his life and is therefore thought of as a French pianist. He began to learn the piano at the age of 9 and two years later received piano lessons from Moritz Moszkowski which continued for the next two years. At 13 he joined the piano class of Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire and when he was 15 received a premier prix in piano. At the examination he played Gabriel Fauré’s Theme and Variations Op. 73; the composer was chairman of the jury at the examination. The following year, when he was 16, Perlemuter won a prix d’honneur for his performance of the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a theme of Rameau by Paul Dukas. His success continued when he won the Diémer Prize for which only those students who had already won a premier prix could compete. In 1921 Perlemuter began to give concerts, subsequently occasionally meeting Gabriel Fauré, for whom he played.
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