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ROSITA RENARD (ROSA AMELIA RENARD ARTIGAS) (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, FEBRUARY 8, 1894 – SANTIAGO DE CHILE, MAY 24, 1949)

 

 

 

 

Rosa Amelia Renard Artigas was born in Santiago, the daughter of a Catalan building contractor, José Renard, and his Chilean wife, Carmen Artigas. Her younger sister Blanca Renard was also an internationally-acclaimed pianist, who later taught in Alabama. Rosa studied in Germany under Martin Krause, and won the Liszt Prize while in Berlin. She was a mentor to young Claudio Arrau when they were both students. Renard played a Grieg concerto with the Chilean Symphony Orchestra at age 14. She toured as accompanist with American singer Geraldine Farrar in 1919. From 1930, she worked at the Chilean National Conservatory, teaching in the piano department until 1936. She continued touring occasionally, and performed in Canada, Mexico, and throughout South America, as well as in many American cities. The highest point of her career came after 1945, when she started an artistic cooperation with conductor Erich Kleiber. She gave a recital at Carnegie Hall on January 19, 1949. Renard married a Czech singer, Otto Stern, in 1928. She died in Santiago soon after her Carnegie Hall recital, in May 1949, aged 55 years, after contracting a rare and fatal form of sleeping sickness from a mosquito bite. In 1993 a biography of Renard by Samuel Claro was published in Spanish.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

Rosita Renard At Carnegie Hall

Label: Desmar – IPA 120/121

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Gatefold

Country: US

Released: 1977

Genre:  Classical

A1 Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major

A2 Sonata No. 15, K. 310

B1 Variations Serieuses, Op. 54

B2 Rondo In D Major, K. 485

C1 Etude In E Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 11

C2 Etude In E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5

C3 Etude In E Major, Op. 10, No. 3

C4 Etude In D Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 8

C5 Etude In A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4

C6 Etude In A Minor, Op. 10, No. 2

C7 Mazurka In C Sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4

C8 Prelude In B Flat Major, Op. 104, No. 1

C9 Etude In F Minor, Op. 25, No. 2

C10 Etude In F Major, Op. 25, No. 3

C11 Etude In C Sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4

D1 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales

D2 Danse

D3 Mazurka In F Sharp Minor, Op. 59, No. 3