Rosa Tamarkina was born in 1920. She studied piano with Alexander Goldenweiser. In 1937, at the age of 17, she won second prize in the 3rd International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition. In the 1940s she studied as a post-graduate student with Goldenweiser and later also with Konstantin Igumnov. She was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 26 and died in 1950 at the age of 30.

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