In 1919 he made his debut in Vienna, and subsequently toured throughout the world. He lived in Cairo and then Rotterdam,[1] where he taught at the Conservatory of Music from 1937 to 1940.
Askenase's first concert in Poland after World War II took place on 17 May 1946. In 1950 he became a naturalized Belgian citizen[1] and from 1954 to 1961 he taught at the Brussels Conservatory of Music.
He recorded extensively the works of Chopin for the Deutsche Grammophon label in the 1950s and 1960s.
Stefan Askenase's was Andrzej Ziemilski's (1923–2003) uncle through marriage
References
^ abcdefg"Obituaries"(PDF). AJR Information. Vol. XL, no. 12, December 1985. London: The Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain. December 1985. p. 7. Archived from the original(PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
Alain Pâris: Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale aux XXe siècle. Robert Laffont, Paris 1989.