Antonia Butler

Born
 
Active Decades
 
 
by Joseph Stevenson
Antonia Butlers' parents were music lovers, though amateurs. Her father played violin, and her mother was an accomplished pianist. The musical d'Aranyi sisters (Hungarians who were great nieces of the great violinist Joseph Joachim) would visit their home to play chamber music and rehearse concerto performances with Antonia's mother accompanying at the keyboard.



Antonia came to the cello relatively late, at the age of ten. The d'Aranyi family's influence got her an audition with the great teacher Julus Klengel of the Leipzig Conservatory, where she stayed for four years. She then went to the Ecole Normal in Paris to study with Alexanian, who taught her for three years. She considered the years of study with Alexanian to be the most important.



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