Identifier	babin.jpg
Title	Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, duo-pianists, in 1957
Subject	Babin, Victor Babin, Victoria (Vitya) Vronsky Pianists Cleveland Orchestra Cleveland Institute Of Music Composers
Description	"Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, duo-pianists who will play with the Cleveland Orchestra tomorrow and Saturday evenings, relax in the home of Maj. Charles H. Strong in Bratenahl. The team will give the world premier of Babin's Concerto No. 2 for Two Pianos with the orchestra tomorrow" -- photo caption.
Name	Vronsky, Vitya
Maiden Name	Vronsky
Additional Names	Babin, Vitya V.
Birth Date	1909-08-22
Death Date	1992-06-28
Accomplishments	Vitya Vronsky was a world class pianist who came to Cleveland to become faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1961 after touring and recording extensively as part of a duo piano team with her husband, Victor Babin. Vronsky hailed from the Russian Crimea, graduating from the Kiev Conservatory of Music at 13. She then studied under Artur Schnabel in Berlin where she met her husband-to-be, Babin.
Profession	Arts Education
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	1957-01-23
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Digital Collection	Famous Women of Cleveland
Donor	Cole, Joseph E.
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	JPG
Digital Processing Notes	TIF File Size 18729 K, 600 dpi
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=BVV
Further Reading	Biography of Victor Babin and Vitya Vronsky: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Babin-Victor.htm Plain Dealer articles on Vitya Vronsky: http://www-catalog.cpl.org/CLENIX?key=babin%2C+vitya+v.&ind=S Time article (1937): http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770613,00.html

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