Kiyoko Tanaka plays Chopin Etudes

Live recording in the international Chopin piano competition 1955. Op. 253, 6, 8. Kiyoko Tanaka (19321996) Kiyoko Tanaka began learning piano in her hometown, Tokyo. Her first teacher was Kasuko Yasukawa. Subsequently Ms. Tanaka studied with Leonid Kreutzer, student of the famous Anna Essipova, at the Higher Music School in Tokyo. In 1949, she won the Grand Prix at the national Mainichi Competition. In 1950 Ms. Tanaka left for Paris and studied for two years at the Conservatoire with Lazare Lévy, grad