Dame Moura Lympany/ Moura Lympany

譯名：穆拉·林帕尼

穆拉·林帕尼原名Mary Gertrude Johnstone，英國出生，曾在比利時受教育。父親Captain John Johnstone是曾服務于一戰(zhàn)的軍官，曾明確告訴穆拉母親Beatrice Limpenny說自己不是個好丈夫。于是穆拉的母親無論如何不得不獨力支持家庭(穆拉出生后還有兩個兒子出生)和單槍匹馬引導她女兒的早期職業(yè)生涯。1923年只有7歲的穆拉被送到比利時的一所女修道院學校，當修女們注意到她的音樂天賦，尤其是鋼琴方面。她們安排小穆拉在比利時列日音樂學院繼續(xù)深造，后來獲得倫敦皇家音樂學院的獎學金。13歲時穆拉進入倫敦皇家音樂學院繼續(xù)鋼琴的學習。1929年，在通過導師Basil Cameron的試鏡后，12歲的穆拉與Basil Cameron合作在哈羅蓋特（英國英格蘭北部約克郡城鎮(zhèn)）舉辦自己的音樂處女秀。Basil Cameron建議穆拉根據(jù)自己母親的姓氏Limpenny來取藝名。隨后，穆拉在維也納跟隨Paul Weingarten、倫敦的Mathilde Verne繼續(xù)學習。1932年畢業(yè)時，穆拉就已獲得多個大賽的金獎。1935年，穆拉在倫敦的威格莫爾演唱大廳（Wigmore Hall）舉辦個人處女秀。1938年贏得Ysaye鋼琴大賽亞軍。

英文介紹：Dame Moura Lympany was one of the first in an internationally successful group of female British piano virtuosos to emerge in the twentieth century. She was born in Saltash, Devon, in 1916. Lympany showed unusual promise at the keyboard during her childhood, and began her formal training at the Liège Conservatory, in Belgium. Upon her return to England, she received an Ada Lewis Scholarship enabling her to continue her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as a pupil of Coviello. Her other tutors included Paul Weingarten, Mathilde Verne, and Edward Steuermann, and Tobias Matthay, the last-named exerting the strongest influence upon her playing style was exerted by the German-born pedagogue Tobias Matthay.