Jascha Spivakovsky

Jascha Spivakovsky was a 20th-century Russian-born Australian pianist. He was born near Kiev, later moving to Odessa, where he and his family were nearly murdered by Imperial Guards during the 1905 pogrom. He fled to Berlin and was declared the heir to Anton Rubinstein, a 19th-century Russian pianist, while being likened to Ignacy Paderewski and Teresa Carreño before he was imprisoned as an enemy alien of Imperial Russia during World War I. In the interwar period, he became internationally recognized as one of the greatest pianists in the world and was regarded in Europe as one of the finest living interpreters of Brahms.