Grete Sultan

Grete Sultan (1906-2005) was a pianist born in Berlin who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1941. She studied with Leonid Kreutzer, Edwin Fischer and Richard Buhlig, played Bach alongside music of her own century, and was a close friend of John Cage, who wrote his Etudes Australes for her. These 32 piano etudes are based on star charts, and Sultan performed the cycle in many countries. Wergo issues her recording.