Józef Hofmann's public performing career was paused until he was eighteen, after a wealthy benefactor paid his family $50,000.
Composer Biography
Józef Hofmann considered his period of intensive study with Anton Rubinstein, himself a former child prodigy, to be the most important event of his life.
Composer Biography
As a child prodigy, Józef Hofmann's American concert tour at age eleven was halted by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children due to concerns for his health.
Recording & Production
Józef Hofmann was the first notable artist to make recordings, including experimental cylinder recordings for Thomas Edison at age eleven and commercial recordings from 1903.
Composer Biography
Józef Hofmann, a celebrated pianist, also invented the windscreen wiper and pneumatic shock absorbers for early aircraft, accumulating over seventy patents by his death.
Performer Biography
Artem Yasynskyy, the pianist on this album, won the Hofmann Prize at the 2013 German Piano Competition of Polish Music, which included a recording contract for works by Józef Hofmann.
Composer Biography
Józef Hofmann, like violinist Fritz Kreisler, published some of his smaller compositions under the pseudonym Dvorsky, a reclusive young Frenchman, which is the Polish equivalent of Hofmann.
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