A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Timanoff, Vera

by Alexis Chitty

TIMANOFF, Vera, a native of Russia, received pianoforte instruction in music from Liszt, and for a long time past has enjoyed a wide continental reputation. She made her début in England, August 28, 1880, at the Promenade Concerts, Covent Garden, where she fulfilled six nights' engagement under the conductorship of Mr. F. H. Cowen, and made a lively impression by her brilliant rendering of the works of her master and other pieces of the same school. On May 19, 1881, she played Chopin's Concerto in F minor at the Philharmonic, and 'by her brilliant execution of the florid passages, by the delicacy with which she rendered the fairylike fancies of the composer, and by the marked character resulting from her strong feeling for rhythm and accent, gave the concerto an adventitious interest.'^[1] On May 13, 1882, she played at the Crystal Palace Liszt's 'Fantasia on the Ruins of Athens,' and on June 6 of the same year she gave a recital and was heard with pleasure in light pieces of Moskowski, Liszt, and Rubinstein.

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1. Daily Telegraph.