Dina Turgeman Explained

Dina Turgeman (4 October 1922 – 14 February 2014), was a German-born Israeli pianist and piano teacher.

Biography

Dina Grossvogel Turgeman was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her Polish-born art dealer family emigrated to Luxembourg.[1] She studied piano at the Luxembourg Conservatory, with Lucien Lambotte,[2] and at age 14 won „Premier prix avec grande distinction par 60 points“, (“first prize with distinction”).[3] A year later, February 24, 1938, she gave her first recital at the Luxemburg Casino playing works of Glinka, Balakirew, Ljadow, Glasunow and Arenski.[4]

She went on to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where she won „Premier prix avec distinction“ (First prize with distinction) in 1939.[4] She won first prizes in competitions and played in concerts that were broadcast across Europe.[5] During her studies she received the honor of Queen of Belgium's patronage.[6] During the Second World War in 1941, her family was on the list to be deported to the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Łódź),[7] Turgeman and her family, with forged papers under the name ‘Dubois’ and assisted by Lucien Lambotte,[8] hid in a convent near Liege in Belgium, where she played the organ at Mass every morning.[9] After the war she continued with her studies at the Brussels conservatoire,[10] and played numerous concerts, as soloist and chamber music, in Brussels and for the Luxembourg radio.

In 1949, she immigrated to Israel.[11] [12]

In 1950 she married Mordechai Turgeman, CPA, whom she met touring in Israel, .[13] They have two children, Professor Orit Pappo and Advocate Arik Ramot.

Music career

Turgeman played as soloist and chamber music with musicians from Israel and abroad[14] [15] including Yitzhak Blassberger, Simcha Cheled, Georg Marton, Avraham Melamed, Nahum Pinczuk, Meir Rimon, Moshe Stieglitz, Arie Yisraeli[16] in a wide repertoire which included Bach, Beethoven, Brahms,[17] Britten, Chausson, Kodaly, Martinu[18] Mozart, Partos, Poot, Tchaikowski, Villa-Lobos as well as Belgian composers.[19] She taught students from all over the world who went on to Juilliard, the Metropolitan Opera and other musical institutions.[20]

Turgeman developed a unique teaching method that allowed musicians to reach their full potential, with a specific technical base of rebuilding the finger strength and efficient easy playing.[21] Among her students were Astrit Balzan, Leora Cohen, Mikael Eliason,[22] Ethan Globerson, Revital Hachamoff,[23] Yehuda Inbar,[24] Nico Levi, Eytan Pessen, Irit Rimon Neidorff, Ayala Rosenbaum,[25] Adi Rosenkranz,[26] Zvi Semel and Michal Tal. She taught up to the age of 88.

Awards and recognition

After her death in 2014 at the age of 91[27] the story of her curtailed career, deportation and post war antisemitism were featured in varied media in Luxembourg and Belgium.[28] [29] led by the historian Denis Scuto.[30] [31] the Jerusalem Music Academy created a chamber music competition on her name.[32] [33]

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/24623/1/Suche_Dina_Grossvogel.pdf, Article by D. Scuto about the search for Dina Grossvogel
  2. http://www.bayard-nizet.com/Lambotte_fr.html Lucien LAMBOTTE (Verviers 1888 - Spa 1969)
  3. ‘’Escher Tageblatt’’ and ‘’des Luxemburger Wort’’ newspaper articles (in German) from the 1930s in the Archive of the city music conservatory in Luxembourg (‘’Städtischen Musikkonservatorium’’)
  4. Web site: Auf der Suche nach Dina . de . orbilu.uni.lu . 31 January 2016 . 30 August 2020.
  5. Web site: Was bringt Radio Luxemburg diese woche? . de.
  6. https://issuu.com/leliadiluca/docs/holocaust_30012016_1eb0d2279738ca Grossvogel
  7. Scuto Denis, La Commission administrative et le fichier juif de la Gestapo, Tageblatt, 19.11.2015, p. 2-5| newspaper article on the Gestapo list regarding the Grossvogel family (in French)
  8. https://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/edition-de-thionville-hayange/2016/06/30/juifs-le-luxembourg-face-a-son-passe Grossvogel Family information
  9. Archives général du Royaume, Police des étrangers, Dossier A40.085 (Jakob und Rosa Grossvogel|Immigration information and police records for the Grossvogel family (in French)
  10. De Oliveira, Olivia Wahnon. "Le Conservatoire Royal De Bruxelles Pendant La Seconde Guerre Mondiale." Revue Belge De Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift Voor Muziekwetenschap 69 (2015): 283-304|about the Jewish students of the Brussels conservatory (in French)
  11. Web site: Tageblatt.lu - "Wir müssen die Fragen weiter vertiefen" %.
  12. Jüdische Flüchtlinge in Walferdingen 1935-1942 . Les traces ineffaçables de l'être humain. Éd. Binsfeld/Commune de Walferdange . 2017 . 26–89 . 30 August 2020. Wey . Claude .
  13. https://rgcity.co.il/הפסנתרנים-הצעירים-של-גבעתיים/ Young pianists in Givataim, article in Hebrew
  14. https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/Hebrew/digitallibrary/pages/viewer.aspx?presentorid=NNL_Ephemera&DocID=NNL_Ephemera700100257 Concert information in National Library Jerusalem
  15. https://www.nli.org.il/he/sheets/NNL_Ephemera700091339/NNL_Ephemera Concert information in National Library Jerusalem
  16. Web site: דינה תורגמן - אברהם מלמד. . he . Dina Turgeman - Avraham Melamed.
  17. https://www.nli.org.il/he/sheets/NNL_Ephemera700265247/NNL_Ephemera Concert information in National Library Jerusalem
  18. https://www.nli.org.il/he/sheets/NNL_Ephemera700098098/NNL_Ephemera Concert information in National Library Jerusalem
  19. http://primo.nli.org.il/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do vid=NNL_Ephemera&docId=NNL_Ephemera71234456910005171
  20. https://teatrwielki.pl/en/people/eytan-pessen/ Eytan Pessen
  21. https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/classic/1.1584757 Interview with pianist Revital Hachamoff
  22. Pianist, Curtis Institute Vocal department director
  23. Web site: השראה בפסנתר . 3 December 2017 . he . 30 August 2020.
  24. Web site: Yehuda Inbar • Pianisten-Biografie • C. Bechstein.
  25. Web site: Ayala Rosenbaum.
  26. Web site: שופטים | תחרות פנינה זלצמן.
  27. Web site: "Gitt dach zeréck a Polen, do ass elo vill Plaz...". 26 May 2015.
  28. ‘’Juifs : le Grand-Duché face à son passé’’- “Jews: the Grand Duchy faces its past”, article in Le Quotidiene in Luxumbourg (in French)
  29. Web site: Juifs : Le Grand-Duché face à son passé | le Quotidien.
  30. Web site: AfricaBrief.
  31. Web site: Open access - ORBilu - Université du Luxembourg .
  32. Web site: Competitions. 6 September 2018.
  33. Web site: The Dina Turgeman Chamber Music Competition 2018. 16 April 2018.

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