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Angela Lear From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Angela xxxmiddle name? Lear (born xxxx, London) is a British pianist and Chopin researcher.

A descendant of the artist and nonsense poet Edward Lear, she began her concert career at the age of twelve. After winning numerous competitions she studied at the Royal Academy of Music (London) with Professor Guy Jonson (Senior Piano Professor and former pupil of Cortot and Rachmaninov). After winning a Gold Medal she had a brief period of study with Nadia Boulanger and subsequently worked for over three years with Louis Kentner CBE. It was Kentner who introduced her to the importance of researching into Chopin’s autograph manuscripts and original source materials due to the discrepancies found in various edited publications - a subject which continues to be her life-long devotion.

Angela performed throughout the UK and abroad extensively giving recitals at international concert venues, including concerts for Chopin Societies including the rare privilege of being invited by the Chopin Society of Warsaw to give return concerts at the Castle Ostrogski and the composer’s birthplace in the manor house at Zelazowa Wola. She continues to lecture, study and perform the music of Chopin and considers it her mission to publicise the fact that many printed editions and public performances do not present the music as the composer intended.

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