Myra Hess

Influential teacher and musician known for her adept interpretations of such composers as Beethoven, Mozart, and Schumann.She created the lunchtime concert during World War II as a substitute for concert halls being blacked out in the evening because of the German threat. This inspired the founding of City Music Society.She gave lessons to Dave Brubeck's mother, Ivy.

She studied at the Guildhall School of Music, graduating with a Gold Medal.

Her students were many and a significant percentage of them achieved recognition for their gifts, including Clive Lythgoe and Richard and John Contiguglia.

Pianist Myra Hess were born on Tuesday, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 53 days until Myra Hess next birthday.

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