# Jan Chiapusso

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{{Short description|Dutch-American classical pianist}}
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| name               = Jan Chiapusso
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| birth_name         = Jan Joseph Chiapusso
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1890|02|02|df=y}}
| birth_place        = Gemou, [Java](/source/Java), [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies)
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1969|08|21|1890|02|02|df=y}}
| death_place        = [Lawrence, Kansas](/source/Lawrence%2C_Kansas), U.S.
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| education          = [Cologne Conservatory](/source/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Musik_und_Tanz_K%C3%B6ln)
| occupation         = Classical pianist and teacher
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| spouse             = {{marriage|Beulah C. Hollingsworth|1934}}
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'''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](/source/Frederic_Lamond_(pianist)) and [Raoul Pugno](/source/Raoul_Pugno), and he was the teacher of [Rosalyn Tureck](/source/Rosalyn_Tureck), among others.

==Biography==
Jan Joseph Chiapusso was born in Gemou, near [Semarang](/source/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](/source/Java) in the [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies), now [Indonesia](/source/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](/source/Nijmegen)<ref>The source says "Hymegen", but this appears to be an error.</ref> in the [Netherlands](/source/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](/source/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Musik_und_Tanz_K%C3%B6ln) in 1907, graduating in 1911.<ref name=amica/> He had further training with [Frederic Lamond](/source/Frederic_Lamond_(pianist)) and [Raoul Pugno](/source/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](/source/Rome%2C_Georgia).<ref name=uk/><ref name=amica/> He taught at the [Bush Conservatory of Music](/source/Bush_Conservatory_of_Music) in [Chicago](/source/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](/source/University_of_Chicago) 1932–34, and from 1934 at the [University of Kansas](/source/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](/source/gamelan) and other types of [Javanese music](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Lawrence%2C_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](/source/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin), [Étude in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5](/source/%C3%89tude_Op._25%2C_No._5_(Chopin))
* [Franz Liszt](/source/Franz_Liszt), [Transcendental Étude No. 8 in C minor, "Wilde Jagd"](/source/Transcendental_%C3%89tude_No._8_(Liszt)).<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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