Arturo benedetti michelangeli suona beethoven biography

  • The celebrated Italian pianist and pedagogue, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
  • Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, who was 75 when he died of heart failure in Lugano on June 12, 1995, made an impression on audiences akin to that of Rasputin on.
  • The legendary Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920 - 1995), playing at the height of his powers, performs two Beethoven.

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    Program: Legends: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

    One of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli had a cult following and became a legend in his own life-time.

    Stories abound about this eccentric, reclusive perfectionist who was always surrounded by an aura of mystery. His few pupils and his wife claimed he could play the entire piano repertoire by the time he was 20, but his fame was based on a miniscule number of appearances and recordings.

    He scheduled very few concerts, and cancelled more than he gave, but those he did front were memorable for his immaculate technique and the sheer beauty and control of the sound he could create.

    A Prodigious Talent

    Michelangeli was born in a small town near Brescia on 5 January 1920. Italian by nationality, he always claimed his roots were Slavic and often spoke of having Croatian ancestry.

    Initially he learnt violin and organ, saying he didn’t like the piano! It was ‘too percussive’ he said.  ‘Out

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in C minor K457 Allegro – Adagio – Allegro assai

    Dmitrii Shostakovich

    Four Preludes op. 34 1. Moderato – 6. Allegretto – 10.Moderato non troppo – 24. Allegretto

    Interval

    Johannes Brahms

    Variations on an Original Theme op. 21 No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Variations on a Hungarian Song op. 21 No. 2

    Parvis Hejazi in recital with Mozart,Shostakovich,Brahms .Some remarkable musicianly performances from a true artist.Always a great showman but one who has learnt that the message of music is the greatest show that one can share.A performance of Mozart C minor Sonata that was both dramatic and tender.
    Early Shostakovich Preludes with their sometimes grotesque sense of humour but that spoke as eloquently as Prokofiev’s poetic Visions Fugitives.
    But it was the Brahms variations op 21
    n.1 and 2 that unleashed the depth of sound and ravishing sense of colour from this young poet of the piano,together with his aristocratic sens

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    THE MAN WHO WOULD BE SCARBO:
    REMEMBERING ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI
    by John Bell Young




    The author would like to thank the following individuals for their help and generous contributions to this article:


    Dag Achatz
    James Baker
    Idil Biret
    Camille Antoinette Budarz
    Harry Chin
    Mary Ann Cialdo
    Joseph Fabio
    Mario Feninger
    Margarita Fyodorova
    Cord Garben
    Robert Helps
    The International Piano Archives
    Lydia Kozubek
    Marisa Lederer
    Jacques Leiser
    Donald Manildi
    Renato Premezzi
    Charles Rosen
    Valarie Alexandra Valois
    Rostislav Zdobnov


    PART I: LE GIBET WATCH

    PART II: ROOTS AND RHIZOMES

    PART III: "RITMO, RITMO" – NO LITTLE BENEDETTIS

    PART IV: SPHINX

    PART V: DES PAS SUR LE DISQUE: THE gods GASPARD

    PART VI: THE STEEL SHROUD


    Wie das schwebt! Wie es auf Erden nich ist!
    (How that hovers-as if not of the earth!)[1]
    -Franz Liszt




    PART I: LE GIBET WATCH

    Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, who was 75 when he died of heart failure in Lugano on June 12, 1995, made an impression on