Otsup Raisa (1900)

Otsup(Ozup) Raisa (7 December 1900 – ?) — pianist.

Raisa Otsup studied at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1921, she left Moscow. She continued her musical training with Nikolai Medtner in Paris and Artur Schnabel in Berlin. In 1927, she taught at the Russian Conservatory in Paris, where she held the rank of professor.

From the early 1930s, she lived in Riga. She gave private lessons and gained a reputation as an excellent pedagogue—even musicians who already held conservatory diplomas came to her for further refinement. One of her pupils was R. Michelson (after Michelson had graduated from the conservatory).

She was the wife of the pianist S. Tager (from 1935).

Literature:

Brems, M. Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn Latvijas Kareivis, 1936, No. 231, p. 4. Lesiņš, K. Raisa Otsupa’s Concert Brīva Zeme, 1936, No. 230, p. 12.

Almazov, S. Raisa Otsup’s Concert Segodnya vecherom, 1936, No. 233, p. 6. Segodnya vecherom, 17 February 1939.