Zuzana Růžičková
Zuzana Růžičková was born on January 14, 1927. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Zuzana Růžičková
Zuzana Růžičková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈzuzana ˈruːʒɪtʃkovaː]; 14 January 1927 – 27 September 2017) was a Czech harpsichordist. An interpreter of classical and baroque music, Růžičková was the first harpsichordist to record Johann Sebastian Bach's complete works for keyboard, in recordings made in the 1960s and 1970s for Erato Records. Růžičková was born to a Jewish family in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia. As a teenager during World War II, she was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps of Terezín, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. She returned to Plzeň after the end of the war. Růžičková was the…