Yakov Vladimirovich Flier (Russian: Я́ков Влади́мирович Флие́р; October 21 [O.S. October 8], 1912 – December 18, 1977; last name also spelled Fliere or Fliyer) was a JewishRussian concert pianist and teacher.[1]
Left to right: Lance Dossor, Yacob Flier, Moura Lympany, Emile Gilels, André Dumortier, and Arturo Michelangeli at the 1938 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.Photo of pianists Emil Gilels and Yakov Flier (right) who took first and third prizes at the Queen Elizabeth international contest in Brussels. Pravda newspaper (Soviet Union). May 1938.
He was a contemporary of, and sometime rival to Emil Gilels. In the 1960s and 1970s, Flier began to perform in Europe. During his concert tour in the USA he performed Sergei Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Flier was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. Flier won the National USSR piano competition, The Vienna International Competition (1936) and got third prize at The Eugene Ysaÿe Brussels International Competition (1938) (now Queen Elisabeth Competition).
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^"Yakov Flier Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
^"The Konstantin Igumnov Tradition | Piano Genealogies". exhibitions.lib.umd.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
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October 15, 2023
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