SZALIT, Paula

Pianist and composer. She studied music with her uncle Henry Szalit at the Lviv Conservatoire, and subsequently with Eugen d’Albert in Bavaria. From 1897, she studied in Vienna under Robert Fischof, Heinrich Schenker, Józef Hofmann and Teodor Leszetycki. She was regarded as a child prodigy, admired for her musicality. She gave concerts in St Petersburg and Moscow in 1898. In 1903, she performed in Berlin. It was then that she also visited Warsaw. In 1904, she gave concerts in Lviv and Kraków. Around 1907, she taught piano at the Anna Niementowska Music Institute in Lviv. She gave her final concert in 1913 alongside the violinist Paweł Kochański.