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in Warsaw in June 1936. He was afflicted with a hereditary mental illness and attended a sanatorium at regular intervals. The need to continue his career caused him to cut short a period of treatment, and it was in this way that the fatal melancholy overtook him.
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as professor of piano at the Music Society Conservatory there, of which he became Director in 1929–1931. By now, he was giving orchestral concerts in Warsaw and Kraków, and in 1932, at Drzewiecki's urging, he entered the
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described his playing as of great nobility and spontaneity. It is believed that he made no recordings.
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According to Professor Drzewiecki, Kon was the greatest pianistic genius that he ever heard; Mme
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However, he suffered from a form of existential depression and committed
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Prize-winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition
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Fryderyk Chopin Institute biographic sketch of Kon,
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Chopin Playing From The Composer To The Present Day
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