Alexander Uninsky

Alexander Uninsky (Russian: Александр Юнинский, Aleksandr Yuninskij, pronounced You-nin-skee; 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1910 – 19 December 1972) was a Russian-American classical pianist. Alexander Uninsky was born in Kiev (then in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine). He initially studied piano there in the conservatory which had been opened in 1913, and whose other graduates included Vladimir Horowitz and Alexander Brailowsky. He subsequently moved to Paris in 1923, where he studied with Lazare Lévy. He was awarded the conservatory's first prize for piano. In 1932 he won the second International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition. In fact, Uninsky tied for first place with the blind Hungarian pianist Imre Ungar, and the judges decided...