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AGI JAMBOR (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, FEBRUARY 4, 1909 – BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, U.S., FEBRUARY 3, 1997)

 

 

 

 

Jambor was born in 1909 in Budapest, Hungary, the half-Jewish daughter of a wealthy businessman and a prominent piano teacher. A piano prodigy, she was playing Mozart before she could read and at age 12 made her debut with a symphony orchestra.

From 1926 to 1931, Jambor studied piano with Edwin Fischer at the Berlin University of the Arts. In the early 1930s, at the height of her popularity, she fled to Paris and into exile, preferring playing practice piano in a dance studio to performing on the concert stage.

In 1933, Jambor married Imre Patai, a physicist and pianist. In 1937 she won Fifth Prize at the III International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

Trapped with her husband when the Nazis overran Holland, and unable to escape to the United States, she later returned to Hungary, which was still neutral. She had a baby, a son who died within two weeks. A picture of the infant would remain on her bedside table the rest of her life.

The Nazis invaded in 1944 and Jambor participated in the Resistance, often dressed as a prostitute in seductive clothes and heavy makeup, calling herself Maryushka. She refused to return or perform in Germany again.

She and her husband came to the United States in 1947. Her husband died two years later, his health destroyed by the war.

Between 1955 and 1957, Jambor recorded five albums for Capitol Records in New York City, New York.

After leaving Baltimore for Philadelphia in 1957, she began performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra, where she became a favorite soloist of Eugene Ormandy and was acclaimed by conductor Bruno Walter. She received rave reviews and made 12 recordings for Capitol Records.

She also became professor of classical piano at Bryn Mawr College, which named her professor emeritus in 1974.

She was married to actor Claude Rains from 1959 to 1960.

Jambor died of cancer at Gilchrist Center of Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson, Maryland on February 3, 1997, one day before her 88th birthday.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Agi Jambor, Victor Aitay, Janos Starker Trios For Pianoforte, Violin And Cello W. A. Mozart

Label: Period Records – SPLP 523

Format: Records, LP, Mono

Country: US

Genre: Classical

Trio No. 1 For Piano, Violin And Cello In G Major, K. 496

A1 Allegro

A2 Andante

A3 Allegretto

Trio No. 6 For Piano, Violin And Cello in B Flat Major, K. 254

B1 Allegro Assai

B2 Adagio

B3 Rondo

Cello – Janos Starker

Composed By – W. A. Mozart

Liner Notes – Michael Hauptmann

Piano – Agi Jambor

Violin – Victor Aitay

 

Agi Jambor Keyboard Music Bach

Label: Capitol Records -P-8348

Format: Records, LP, Album, Mono

Country: US

Release date: Oct. 1956

Genre: Classical

Style: Baroque

A1 Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue

A2 Prelude: Fugue And Allegro In E-Flat

B1 Italian Concerto

B2 Prelude And Fugue In A Minor

Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach

Cover – Gould

Liner Notes – Karl Geiringer

 

Chopin, Agi Jambor – Ballades And Impromptus (Complete)

Label: Capitol Records -P 8403

Format: Records, LP, Compilation, Mono

Country: UK

Genre: Classical

Style: Romantic

A1 Impromptu In A Flat Major, Op. 29

A2 Impromptu In F Sharp Major, Op. 36

A3 Impromptu In G Flat Major, Op. 51

A4 Fantasie-Impromptu In C Sharp Minor, Op. 66

A5 Ballade In A Flat Major, Op. 47

B1 Ballade In G Minor, Op. 23

B2 Ballade In F Major, Op. 38

B3 Ballade In F Minor, Op. 52

Matrix / inner ring: P1 8403

Matrix / inner ring: P2 8403

 

Mozart, Agi Jambor, Victor Aitay, Janos Starker – Six Trios For Piano, Violin And Cello

Label: Thrift Edition – TE 1013, Period Records – TE 1013

Format: 3 x Records, LP, Album

Country: US

Genre: Classical

Style: Classical

Trio In E, K-542

A1 Allegro

A2 Andante Grazioso

A3 Allegro

Trio In G, K-564

B1 Allegro

B2 Andante

B3 allegretto

Trio In B Flat, K-502

C1 Allegro

C2 Larghetto

C3 allegretto

Trio In C, K-548

D1 Allegro

D2 Andante Cantabile

D3 Allegro

Trio In G, K-496

E1 Allegro

E2 Andante

E3  allegretto

Trio In B Flat, K-254

F1 Allegro Assai

F2 Adagio

F3 Rondo