Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Rudolf Serkin across 4 places, from 1920 to 1951.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Rudolf Serkin (28 March 1903 – 8 May 1991) was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American pianist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Rudolf Serkin is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Rudolf Serkin was documented, and when
1920year
Berlinattested“Serkin began a regular concert career in 1920, living in Berlin with the German violinist Adolf Busch and his family, which included a then-3-year-old daughter Irene, whom Serkin would marry 15 years later.”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
1939year
Curtis Institute of Musicattested“Serkin did was to display a colossal art, which he devoted to the most idealistic purposes." Shortly after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Serkins and Busches emigrated to the United States, where Serkin taught several generati…”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
1939year
United Statesattested“Serkin did was to display a colossal art, which he devoted to the most idealistic purposes." Shortly after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Serkins and Busches emigrated to the United States, where Serkin taught several generati…”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
1939year
Philadelphiaattested“Serkin did was to display a colossal art, which he devoted to the most idealistic purposes." Shortly after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Serkins and Busches emigrated to the United States, where Serkin taught several generati…”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
1951year
United Statesattested“In 1951, Serkin and Adolf Busch founded the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Marlboro, Vermont, with the goal of stimulating interest in and performance of chamber music in the United States.”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
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1933year
Berlinmentioned“With the rise of Hitler in Germany in 1933, Serkin and the Busches (who were not Jewish but who vehemently opposed the Nazi regime) left Berlin for Basel, Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
1933year
Germanymentioned“With the rise of Hitler in Germany in 1933, Serkin and the Busches (who were not Jewish but who vehemently opposed the Nazi regime) left Berlin for Basel, Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
1937year
Carnegie Hallmentioned“Similarly, the technical performance was clean and precise, but also beautiful and of a poetic coloring." In 1937, Serkin played his first New York City recital at Carnegie Hall, again to critical acclaim: Downes wrote, "What Mr.”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
1959year
United Statesmentioned“In 1959, he became the first pianist in the United States to record Reger's Piano Concerto, Op.”source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Serkin
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