Canadian pianist, violinist, professor and composer of Russian and French parentage. Moscow, January 6, 1902; Stuttgart, December 2, 1974. She spent her childhood in England and France and had her first piano lessons from her mother, who was a pupil of Anton Rubinstein and teacher of Tolstoy’s children. She later studied the violin and the piano at the Paris Conservatoire and was examined by Debussy, Ravel and Moszkowski. At the age of 11 she made her debut in Berlin and studied at the...