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Elisabeth Westenholz
Danish pianist and organist
Elisabeth Westenholz is a Danish pianist and organist. She has been called one of Denmark’s premier performers by the Kristeligt Dagblad.[1]
Biography
Westenholz was born in 1942 in Copenhagen.[2] Both her parents played the piano, and her father taught her pieces by Mozart and Bach when she was very young.
She began studying piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Harriet Østergaard-Andersen and then subsequently with Ester Vagning.[3] She also lived in Wales for a few months in 1959, where she took a break from school and studied with Patrick Piggott.
In Wales, she made her television debut on a local TV station. After her schooling was complete, she studied at Oxford, under 90-year-old Leonie Gombrich, who knew such greats as Brahms, Mahler, and Bruckner.[2] She had additional studies with Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna.[4]
Westenholz also studied the organ with C