Strauss Godowsky Artist Life Saperton Rec 1952 Pt 1

David Saperton was born in Pennsylvania on October 29,1889. In 1924,he married Godowsky's elder daughter, Vanita.That year,Josef Hofmann appointed him to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where Jorge Bolet,Abbey Simon and Shura Cherkassky studied with him. Saperton had a prodigious technique, but like Josef Lhevinne,he devoted himself mostly to teaching after 1918. Sidney Foster, one of David Saperton's best known students writes, " He died relatively unknown in 1970 at the age of 80 -mourned only by a son ,a handful of devoted students and a few ardent cognoscenti." He had a huge repertoire. Two weeks before before he died Saperton played the Prokofiev Toccata, the Barber Sonata, the Gaspard de la Nuit of Ravel and the Feux follets of Liszt to an audience who, according to his student Sidney Foster, "were astounded at the youthful vitality and undiminished powers he possessed."
Symphoniic Metamorphosis on the Waltz "Aritst Life."

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[BachScholar]

One of my former professors studied with Foster, so that means I am a progenitor of Saperton. I also had masterclasses with Simon, so that makes me a double progenitor of Saperton.