Elisabeth Leonskaja
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Elisabeth Leonskaja (b. November 23, 1945) is a Russian pianist. She was born in Tbilisi, Georgia.
She gave her first concert at the age of eleven. In 1964 she began studies in Moscow Conservatory under Jacob Milstein. During her conservatory years she won prizes in competitions in Bucharest, Brussels and Paris.
She left the Soviet Union in 1978 and has since then lived in Vienna. A noted recording of her[citation needed] is of Edvard Grieg's two piano transcription of Mozart's piano sonatas K. 545 and k. 533, accompanied by Sviatoslav Richter.
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