A Forgotten Virtuoso: Mîndru Katz
A Forgotten Virtuoso: Mîndru Katz
Author(s): Ioana Raluca Voicu-ArnăuțoiuSubject(s): Music, History of Communism
Published by: Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică din București
Keywords: Florica Musicescu; Romanian secret police (Securitate); Romanian Legation; Yehudi Menuhin;
Summary/Abstract: The paper reveals considerable hitherto unknown biographical detail on Romanian-born Mîndru Katz, a pianist with a prominent international career in the 1960s and the 1970s. Choosing not to return to Romania and resisting the apparently generous offers of the Securitate (the Romanian Secret Police), he became a nonperson in the country where he was born and where he received his musical education. Having risen to fame in the free world, he moved to Israel to be reunited with his family. The paper also presents some of the methods used by the Securitate to keep all people, irrespective of their social or professional backgrounds, under control, and shows how their interference in Mîndru Katz’s life changed his destiny. Though Katz died forty years ago, his piano playing is still highly rated by connoisseurs.
Journal: Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest
- Issue Year: 12/2021
- Issue No: 45
- Page Range: 27-39
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English