Yura Guller plays Frédéric Chopin – Nocturnes Favorites

Yura Guller was born in 1895 in Marseille, France. She started to learn the piano at the age of five, giving recitals at a very early age before enrolling at the Paris Conservatoire at just nine years old. It is here that she studied under Isidor Philipp (a tutor of impeccable pedigree having studied with Camille Saint-Saëns), Théodore Ritter & Georges Amadée St. Claire Mathias (himself a direct pupil of Frédéric Chopin). It was only Mathias who fully absorbed the Chopin tradition and carried it forward, in turn passing the legacy and philosophy of teaching to Isidor Philipp. This is...