Róża Etkin-Moszkowska

Etkin, who showed considerable talent early in life, was the youngest contestant at the inaugural I International Chopin Piano Competition, where she was awarded the 3rd prize.

During the early 1930s she settled in Berlin to study with Professor Moritz Mayer-Mahr.

She developed a very large repertoire, including the late sonatas of Beethoven, the Rachmaninov concerti, the Goldberg Variations, Prokofiev's and Karol Szymanowski's works and Godowsky's arrangements of the Chopin Waltzes.

She played a good deal of Chopin, and won critical approval for her performance of his first piano concerto (E minor, op.

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