Israel Citkowitz (6 February 1909 – 4 May 1974) [1] was a Polish-born American pianist, composer, teacher, and critic.
[2][1] Among his students were the English composer Leo Smith, and later, the American conductor Richard Kapp.
[10] On 15 August 1959, Citkowitz married the English writer and heir to the Guinness beer fortune, Lady Caroline Blackwood, 22 years his junior.
A deathbed admission by Blackwood revealed that their daughter Ivana Lowell, was not Citkowitz's child, but was fathered by her lover, screenwriter Ivan Moffat.
[11] [12] On 22 June 1978, Natalya, Citkowitz's eldest daughter with Blackwood, died at age 17 from postural asphyxia due to a drug overdose.