Maria Donata Nanetta Paulina Gustava Erwina Wilhelmine Stein, known as Marion Stein, was an Austrian-born British concert pianist.
14 Facts About Marion Stein
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Marion Stein was born in Vienna to a Jewish family, the daughter of Sophie Bachmann and musician Erwin Marion Stein.
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Marion Stein came to the United Kingdom just before the Second World War.
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Marion Stein attended the Royal College of Music and became good friends with composer Benjamin Britten.
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Marion Stein was the joint founder in 1961 of the Leeds International Piano Competition.
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Marion Stein collaborated with Fanny Waterman on Piano Lessons, a successful piano tutor.
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Marion Stein married twice, on both occasions to prominent public figures.
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Harewood began an affair with the violinist Patricia Tuckwell, but Marion Stein rejected the idea of divorce until 1967, by which time Harewood had a son by Tuckwell.
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Marion Stein married her second husband, Jeremy Thorpe, on 14 March 1973.
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Marion Stein Thorpe stood by her husband throughout the scandal of the late 1970s.
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Towards the end of her life, Marion Stein Thorpe had mobility problems.
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Marion Stein was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2008 Birthday Honours by Elizabeth II for services to music, in particular the Leeds International Piano Competition.
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Marion Stein Thorpe died on 6 March 2014 at the age of 87.
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Marion Stein was played by Monica Dolan in the television miniseries A Very English Scandal.