Rosalyn Tureck (December 14, 1913 – July 17, 2003)[1] was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

[4] The first of her teachers to recognize her special gifts for playing the music of Bach was the Javanese-born Dutch pianist Jan Chiapusso, who gave her twice-weekly lessons in Chicago from 1929 to 1931[1][5] and also introduced her to the sounds of exotic instruments and ensembles such as the Javanese gamelan.

[6][7] At Tuley High School (closed 1974), Tureck was a friend and classmate of future Nobel Prize–winning novelist Saul Bellow, who graduated in January 1932.

[8] "My technique was grounded, from my earliest years of study, in the school of Mendelssohn as passed on by Anton Rubinstein and many of his pupils, one of whom, Sophia Brilliant-Liven, was my teacher.

Author William F. Buckley, a friend of Tureck's, when writing in his magazine "National Review" often called her "J.S.

[citation needed] On March 18, 1986, she played during the state diner hosted by President Ronald Reagan.

[15] During 2000 and 2001, Tureck lived in Spain teaching and practicing every day of the week, specifically in Estepona, Málaga, where she remained for a year in retirement.