Abram Lufer

Abram Mykhailovych Lufer (25 August 1905 [O.S. 12 August] – 13 July 1948) was a Soviet and Ukrainian pianist.

Biography Abram Lufer was born in Kyiv, he took musical education in the Kyiv Music School in 1925 under Hryhorii Beklemishev, then studying at the Lysenko Musical Institute and graduating in 1928. The following year he was the head of the piano department there. In 1930, he won the All-Ukrainian Piano Competition in Kharkiv and was appointed the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine's soloist. Two years later he was awarded a 4th prize at the II International Chopin Piano Competition - having tied with Bolesław Kon, the 3rd prize winner, but he lost at the coin flipping. His disciple Tetiana Holdfarb was awarded a 9th prize at the competition's next edition. Lufer was appointed head director of the Kyiv Conservatory in 1934, Lufer supported a three-staged musical education system in Ukraine, and created a music school in Kyiv for gifted children, under the support of the Kyiv Conservatory. This brought more people to the Kyiv Conservatory, and with higher student counts and a need for higher concert activity, Lufer renovated and expanded the conservatory, a government-funded concert hall was built with 850 seats. By the time of the conservatory's 25th anniversary in 1938, Lufer created the folk instrument and music…Citește mai mult