KRAUS

On the back can be read on hearing her one seemed to grasp the organic growth of the work as if... witnessing its birth under the composer's hands, and a mention of her famous duo with Szymon Goldberg.Lili Kraus studied under Bartók and Kodaly, and was a fine interpreter of Beethoven, Mozart and Bartók himself. Having settled in London, she made a trip to Java in 1942 just in time to be captured by the Japanese, a privation eased a little by a Japanese conductor who arranged for her to play in Tokyo. After the war she took New Zealand citizenship and lived latterly in the U.S.A.