{{Short description|Dutch-American classical pianist}} {{Infobox person | name = Jan Chiapusso | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Jan Joseph Chiapusso | birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|02|02|df=y}} | birth_place = Gemou, Java, Dutch East Indies | death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|08|21|1890|02|02|df=y}} | death_place = Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. | nationality = | education = Cologne Conservatory | occupation = Classical pianist and teacher | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = {{marriage|Beulah C. Hollingsworth|1934}} }} '''Jan Joseph Chiapusso''' (2 February 1890{{spaced ndash}}21 August 1969) was a Dutch, later American, classical pianist and teacher. He was a student of Frederic Lamond and Raoul Pugno, and he was the teacher of Rosalyn Tureck, among others.
==Biography== Jan Joseph Chiapusso was born in Gemou, near Semarang,<ref name=uk>{{cite web|url=http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.ua.chiapussojan.xml|title=Personal papers of Jan Chiapusso|website=etext.ku.edu|access-date=2012-11-10|archive-date=2014-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429185829/http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.ua.chiapussojan.xml|url-status=dead}}</ref> in Java in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. His parents were Dutch, but the last name Chiapusso is of Italian origin. When he was six months old,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hFIZD5bnVgC&pg=PA162|title=Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves|first=Elyse|last=Mach|date=30 September 1991|publisher=Courier Corporation|via=Google Books|isbn=9780486266954}}</ref> his parents relocated to the city of Nijmegen<ref>The source says "Hymegen", but this appears to be an error.</ref> in the Netherlands.<ref name=amica>{{cite web|url=http://www.amica.org/Live/Organization/Honor-Roll/chiapusso.htm|title=JAN CHIAPUSSO|website=www.amica.org|access-date=2012-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612112425/http://www.amica.org/Live/Organization/Honor-Roll/chiapusso.htm|archive-date=2013-06-12|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He entered the Cologne Conservatory in 1907, graduating in 1911.<ref name=amica/> He had further training with Frederic Lamond and Raoul Pugno.<ref name=amica/>
He arrived in the United States in 1916, where he gave concerts and was Professor of Piano (1916–1917) at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia.<ref name=uk/><ref name=amica/> He taught at the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago 1921–31, interrupting this in 1927 to tour Europe as a performer.<ref name=amica/><ref name=iowa/> On return to the United States he taught at the University of Chicago 1932–34, and from 1934 at the University of Kansas, retiring in 1960.<ref name=uk/> He then returned to concertising, giving lecture tours he called "Tone Picture Recitals".<ref name=amica/> In these talks he would illustrate the influence of the gamelan and other types of Javanese music on European composers, drawing on his own experiences and his family's knowledge.<ref name=iowa>{{cite web|url=http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/tc/id/39693/rec/18|title=Jan Chiapusso: internationally known concert pianist :: Traveling Culture – Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century|website=digital.lib.uiowa.edu|access-date=2012-11-10|archive-date=2016-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820190308/http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/tc/id/39693/rec/18|url-status=dead}}</ref>
While Chiapusso was at the Bush Conservatory, he taught Rosalyn Tureck from 1929 to 1931, and was the first of her teachers to recognise her special gifts for playing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tureckbach.com/biography/|title=biography – Tureck Bach Research Institute, Inc.|website=tureckbach.com|access-date=2012-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122054650/http://tureckbach.com/biography/|archive-date=2013-01-22|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wrightmusic.net/pdfs/second-set-of-pianists.pdf |title=David C F Wright, ''A Second Set of Pianists'' |access-date=2012-11-10 |archive-date=2014-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714204451/http://www.wrightmusic.net/pdfs/second-set-of-pianists.pdf |url-status=usurped }}</ref> He also introduced her to the sounds of Indonesian, Asian and African instruments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poindexters.com/geniuses/rosalyn-tureck|title=Rosalyn Tureck – Poindexter's|website=www.poindexters.com|access-date=2012-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141727/http://www.poindexters.com/geniuses/rosalyn-tureck|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/19/obituaries/19TURE.html?hp|title=Rosalyn Tureck, Pianist Specializing in Bach, Dies at 88|first=Allan|last=Kozinn|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2003-07-19}}</ref>
Chiapusso himself was a fervent advocate of Bach's music, and wrote a book called ''Bach's World'', published by Indiana University Press in 1968, the year before he died.<ref name=amica/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5039565-bach-s-world|title=Bach's World|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Bach's World|date=February 1970|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn = 978-0253105202}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of Bach's World; The Bachs, 1500-1850|first=R.|last=W.|date=30 September 1970|journal=Music & Letters|volume=51|issue=3|pages=323–325|jstor=731588}}</ref>
He died in 1969, in Lawrence, Kansas, aged 79. His wife (the former Beulah C. Hollingsworth, a soprano and music instructor, whom he married in 1934) predeceased him, and he had no children.<ref name=amica/>
He made a few recordings, including some on Ampico piano rolls. Extant recordings available on CD include: * Frédéric Chopin, Étude in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5 * Franz Liszt, Transcendental Étude No. 8 in C minor, "Wilde Jagd".<ref>[http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=975686 Classics Online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927005042/http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=975686 |date=2014-09-27 }}</ref> The Liszt work appeared on a three-LP compilation called "The Golden Age of Piano Virtuosi".
He also published his own piano arrangements of some Bach organ and solo cello works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Chiapusso.htm|title=Bach-Chiapusso: Piano Transcriptions of Bach's Works – Works|website=www.bach-cantatas.com}}</ref>
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