Magda Tagliaferro

Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro (19 January 1893 – 9 September 1986) was a Brazilian pianist of French parentage.

Magdalena Tagliaferro was born in Petrópolis, Brazil. Her father, who had studied piano with Raoul Pugno in Paris, was a voice and piano professor in São Paulo. He was her first teacher.

The cellist Pablo Casals heard Tagliaferro play in São Paulo when she was eleven, and he encoura… More