Kochanska, Madame

Kochanska, Madame Born Zofia (Sofia, familiarly Zosia) Kohn, daughter of a prominent Polish lawyer, in 1911 she married the virtuoso Polish violinist Paul Kochanski (1887–1934). She and her mother are also said to have been two (among many) of pianist Artur Rubinstein's (1887–1982) lovers. Zosia herself had hoped vainly to become Mrs. Artur Rubinstein. The actual Mrs. Rubinstein was openly jealous of and often hostile to Zosia her whole life. Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) dedicated her poem »The…