About Iren Marik
Lived 1905 – 1986 (aged 80–81). Iren Marik was a Hungarian music educator and pianist.
Irén Marik (1905 – 1986) was a classical pianist born in Hungary.
Although she studied with composer Béla Bartók and studied at Budapest's Liszt Academy, she fled Hungary after World War II and moved to the United States, where she taught at Sweet Briar College and eventually moved to the small town of Independence, California, outside of Death Valley, where she lived with author Evelyn Eaton.
She taught piano there and occasionally recorded in studios, but for the most part gave performances in her desert home for her neighbors and friends. Irén Marik died in 1986.
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Who was Iren Marik?
Hungarian musician (1905–1986)
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Iren Marik was born in 1905.
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Iren Marik died in 1986.
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Iren Marik was a music educator and pianist.
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Iren Marik was Hungarian.
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