I never got to see her play, except I did have a recording of her that was   
   lost in the storm of 2005 here, but she was great, so better late than never.   
       
   ANIA DORFMANN, PIANIST, DIES   
   By BERNARD HOLLAND   
   Published: April 23, 1984   
       
   Ania Dorfmann, the pianist and teacher, died Saturday night at her Manhattan   
   apartment. She was 84 years old.   
       
   Miss Dorfmann had not played in public for many years, but she remained busy   
   until last June as one of the Juilliard School's venerable and venerated   
   teachers.   
       
   Miss Dorfmann toured the world as a pianist during her active life, and her   
   career included concerts in Spain during the Civil War. She came to the United   
   States before World War II and later recorded with Arturo Toscanini.   
       
   Ania Dorfmann was born in Odessa, Russia, and a high point of her early years   
   there was a joint recital with another child prodigy, Jascha Heifetz. At the   
   age of 12, Miss Dorfmann was accepted at the Paris Conservatory. Among her   
   teachers were Theodor Leschetizky and Isidor Philipp. Returning home for a   
   holiday with her mother in 1917, Miss Dorfmann was caught in the Russian   
   Revolution and only with difficulty made her way back to Paris. There she   
   settled into a busy life of performing.   
       
   After her New York debut at Town Hall in 1938, Olin Downes of The New York   
   Times wrote of Miss Dorfmann's ''delicious sparkle and wit'' and her   
   ''vivacity and charm.'' Of another Town Hall concert 13 years later, Harold C.   
   Schonberg said in The Times: ''Nowhere did Miss Dorfmann strive for   
   large-scaled conceptions and nowhere did she force. The result was an evening   
   of refined, pleasant piano playing.''   
       
   Miss Dorfmann is survived by a daughter, Natacha Stewart Ullmann, and two   
   grandchildren. Her husband, Vladimir Dorfmann, from whom the pianist was   
   divorced, died in London in World War II. A reception is tentatively scheduled   
   at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel late Wednesday afternoon.   
       
   [NOTE: The NY Times spells their way and I spell mine.]   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
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