Jakob Gimpel

Gimpel performing Franz Liszt's Concert Etude No. 3 (Un sospiro)

Jakob Gimpel (April 16, 1906March 12, 1989) was a Polish-American concert pianist and educator.

Jakob Gimpel was born in Lwów (then in Polish Galicia, part of Austria Hungary, and now Lviv, Ukraine) to a Jewish family. Gimpel's younger brother, Bronislav Gimpel, was a noted concert violinist, and his older brother, Karol Gimpel, was a pianist and conductor.

Performing career Gimpel began his piano studies with his father, Adolph, and later studied piano with Cornelia Tarnowska and Eduard Steuermann, and music theory with Alban Berg. Gimpel made his debut in Vienna, Austria, in 1923, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux, performing Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto.

Gimpel toured with violinists Bronisław Huberman, Erika Morini, Nathan Milstein, and his brother, Bronislav Gimpel.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1944 Gaslight Pianist 1947 Possessed Pianist 1952 Strange Fascination Pianist 1953 Johann Mouse (short) Pianist 1955 The Big Combo Pianist 1965 Harlow Pianist 1971 The Mephisto Waltz Pianist