Ania Dorfmann [SEP] place of birth
Ania Dorfmann
Ania Dorfmann (9 July 189921 April 1984) was a Russian-born American pianist and teacher, who taught at the Juilliard School in New York for many years and was the first of only a very few women pianists to play or record under Arturo Toscanini.
Career.
Ania Dorfmann was born in Odessa, Russia (now in Ukraine) in 1899, the daughter of a merchant. She gave her first concert at the age of 11. Around this time she accompanied the even younger Jascha Heifetz
in 1938, touring and recording. Her agent at that time was David Rubin. Her appearances included concerts under Serge Koussevitzky.
In 1947 Ania Dorfmann worked intensively with the actress Barbara Stanwyck, who was making the film "The Other Love", in which she played a concert pianist. Although Ania Dorfmann played the piano music heard on screen, she had Stanwyck practise for three hours a day to make her actions match the music.
In 1956 (some sources say 1966) she joined the piano faculty of the