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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Maryan RAWICZ (1898-1970) and Walter LANDAUER (1910-1983)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Walter Landauer and Maryan Rawicz, pianists, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.
Rawicz, who was born in Poland and Landauer, from Austria, formed their piano duo in the early 1930s after a chance meeting where they discovered they had a mutual interest in music.
After completing a successful concert tour throughout Europe, they escaped the growing Nazi occupation of the continent in 1935 and moved to the United Kingdom with their wives, becoming favourites of the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VIII.
Following the Second World War they became British subjects, and carved out a formidable reputation as a two-piano team, transforming many popular classics into duets, selling tens of thousands of records and making regular BBC radio broadcasts.
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