Famous Pianists
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Updated: 14 Sep 2021
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Created byFrancis Lian
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19 Jul 2023
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Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov
1950年4月18日－，俄羅斯鋼琴家，被認為是當代最重要的鋼琴家之一。Evgénij Ígorevič Kísin;，
1971年10月10日－，俄羅斯古典鋼琴家。Pascal Rogé
(born 6 April 1951) is a French pianist.Sir András Schiff
born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born Austro-British classical pianist and conductorDaniil Olegovich Trifonov
1991年3月5日－，是一名俄羅斯鋼琴家、作曲家。Seong jin cho
1994年5月28日－，韓國鋼琴家。Zoltán Kocsis
30 May 1952 – 6 November 2016
was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer.[Beethoven]
[Brahms]
[Mozart]
[Schubert]
[Schumann]
[Bartók]
[Debussy]
[Enescu]
[Janáček]
Radu Lupu
(born 30 November 1945)
is a Romanian pianist. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest living pianists.
Two of his major piano teachers were Florica Musicescu, who was also the teacher of Dinu Lipatti, and Heinrich Neuhaus, who was also the teacher of Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels.
Lupu is also noted for his performances of Bartók, Debussy, Enescu, and Janáček, among other composers.Cyprien Katsaris
born 5 May 1951 is a French-Cypriot virtuoso pianist, teacher and composer. Amongst his teachers were Monique de la Bruchollerie, a student of Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt.Daniel Barenboim born 15 November 1942 is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain.György Cziffra
5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994), also known as Georges Cziffra and George Cziffra, was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer.
He is considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.Vladimir Pavlovich Ovchinnikov
born January 2, 1958 is a Russian pianist from Belebey, Bashkir ASSR.
He is the only pianist ever to win the top prizes at both the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982, first prize not awarded, received a joint 2nd prize with Peter Donohoe) and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (1987).
Artistic Director of the Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars since 2000.Lazar Naumovich Berman
February 26, 1930 – February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988).
He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world".Yukio Yokoyama，出生於 1971 年2 月 10日在東京，是日本鋼琴家、作曲家和古典音樂教師。Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz
(October 1 [O.S. September 18] 1903 – November 5, 1989)
was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer.
Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, tone color, and the excitement that was engendered by his playing.Martha Argerich
1941年6月5日－
阿根廷鋼琴家，第七屆蕭邦國際鋼琴比賽首獎得主，被視為當代最偉大的鋼琴大師之一。Khatia Buniatishvili
born 21 June 1987) is a Georgian concert pianist.Hélène Grimaud (born 7 November 1969)
is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York.王羽佳（Yuja Wang，1987年2月10日－），中國鋼琴家。郎朗（1982年6月14日－）
滿族，滿洲鈕祜祿氏，遼寧瀋陽人，中國大陸鋼琴家。
他曾被數家美國權威媒體稱作「當今這個時代最天才、最好的偶像明星」，他是受聘於世界頂級的柏林愛樂樂團和美國五大交響樂團的第一位中國鋼琴家。Krystian Zimerman (born 5 December 1956)
is a Polish concert pianist and conductor, who has been described as one of the greatest pianists of his generation.
In 1975, he won the IX International Chopin Piano Competition.[Mozart]
[Beethoven]
Maria João Alexandre Barbosa Pires
born 23 July 1944)
is a Portuguese classical pianist, widely considered to be one of the best interpreters of Mozart and Beethoven.Dame Mitsuko Uchida
born 20 December 1948) is a classical pianist and conductor, born in Japan and naturalised in Britain, particularly noted for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert.Glenn Herbert Gould
25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982
was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Gould's playing was distinguished by a remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music.Yulianna Andreevna Avdeeva
born July 3, 1985
is a Russian concert pianist.
Avdeeva was born in Moscow.
She started piano lessons at the age of five, studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow, and graduated from the Zurich University of the Arts.
After her graduation, she became the assistant to her teacher, Konstantin Scherbakov.Stanislav Stanislavovich Bunin
born 25 September 1966
is a Russian-born concert pianist.
He was born in Moscow in 1966 into an established European musical family which included his grandfather Heinrich Neuhaus, his grandmother Zinaida (Boris Pasternak's second wife), and his father, Stanislav Neuhaus.Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus
2 April [O.S. 31 March] 1888 – 10 October 1964
was a Russian-born pianist and teacher of German and Polish extraction. Part of a musical dynasty, he grew up in a Polish-speaking household.Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld
19 April 1863 – 21 January 1931)
was a Russian composer, conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher.Konstantin Scherbakov
(11 June 1963 in Barnaul, Siberia, Russian SFSR)
is a Russian pianist. He was the winner of the first Rachmaninoff international piano competition in 1983. In 1990, he played solo in four recitals at the Chamber Music Festival of Asolo; this launched his international career.[Scriabin]
[Frédéric Chopin]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky
May 8 [O.S. April 25] 1901 – August 29, 1961) was a Soviet-Russian classical pianist, best known as an interpreter of Alexander Scriabin and Frédéric Chopin. His daughter is the Canadian pianist Viviana Sofronitsky.Dinu Lipatti
1 April [O.S. 19 March] 1917 – 2 December 1950)
was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from causes related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33.
He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.
He composed few works, all of which demonstrated a strong influence from Bartok.Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
5 January 1920 – 12 June 1995)
was an Italian classical pianist.
He is considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.
According to The New York Times, he was perhaps the most reclusive, enigmatic and obsessive among the handful of the world's legendary pianists.[Chopin]
Arthur Rubinstein
28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982)
was a Polish-American
classical pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time.
He received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers and many regard him as one of the greatest Chopin interpreters of his time.Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy
born 6 July 1937
is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He is originally from Russia and has held Icelandic citizenship since 1972.Ivo Pogorelić
born 20 October 1958
is a Yugoslav-born Croatian pianist.
A musician of wide repertoire, among his renowned recordings are Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6.[Beethoven]
[Chopin]
[Debussy]
Maurizio Pollini
(born 5 January 1942)
is an Italian pianist.
He is known for performances of compositions by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy, among others.[Mozart]
[Beethoven]
[Schubert]
[Schoenberg]
Alfred Brendel
(born 5 January 1931)
is an Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer and lecturer who is known particularly for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Beethoven.Jean-Marc Luisada
(born 3 June 1958) is a French pianist born in Bizerte, Tunisia.
He started on the piano at six years old, "the normal age".Alexander Yevgenyevich Kobrin
born 20 March 1980 in Moscow)
is a Russian concert pianist and teacher.Alexandre Kantorow
(born 20 May 1997) is a French pianist.
Described by Gramophone as a "fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm" and by Fanfare as "Liszt reincarnated", he won the first prize, gold medal, and Grand Prix at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019.
With this win, Kantorow became the first French winner in the history of the competition.[Bach]
[Beethoven]
[Liszt]
Igor Levit
was born 10 March 1987
is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt.
He is also a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover.Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873[c][d] – 28 March 1943)
was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the late Romantic period.
The influence of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers is seen in his early works, later giving way to a personal style notable for song-like melodicism, expressiveness and rich orchestral colours.Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter
March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997
was a Soviet pianist who is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time
He is known for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire."Alfred Denis Cortot
26 September 1877 – 15 June 1962
was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century.
A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for his poetic insight into Romantic piano works, particularly those of Chopin, Franck, Saint-Saëns and Schumann.
For Éditions Durand, he edited editions of almost all piano music by Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.[Beethoven]
[Schubert]
Artur Schnabel
(17 April 1882 – 15 August 1951)
was an Austrian-American classical pianist, composer and pedagogue.
Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura.
Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert.Emil Grigoryevich Gilels
19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985
was a Soviet pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time.Ignaz Friedman
February 13, 1882 – January 26, 1948)
was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold C. Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g. Sergei Rachmaninoff) alike placed him among the supreme piano virtuosi of his day, alongside Leopold Godowsky, Moriz Rosenthal, Josef Hofmann and Josef Lhévinne.[ J.S. Bach]
[Mozart]
Edwin Fischer
(6 October 1886 – 24 January 1960)
was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor.
He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and (particularly) Mozart of the twentieth century.[Beethoven]
[Schubert]
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff
(25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991)
was a German pianist and composer.
Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers.
He is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the Germanic tradition during the 20th century[Bach]
[Handel]
[Scarlatti]
[Mozart]
[Beethoven]
[Schumann]
Murray David Perahia
(born April 19, 1947)
is an American pianist and conductor.
He is widely considered one of the greatest living pianists. He was the first North American pianist to win the Leeds International Piano Competition, in 1972.
Known as a leading interpreter of Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, among other composers[Mozart]
Walter Wilhelm Gieseking
(5 November 1895 – 26 October 1956)
was a French-born German pianist and composer.
Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made integral recordings of all their published works which were extant during his life.
He also recorded most of the solo piano works by Mozart.Josef Casimir Hofmann
January 20, 1876 – February 16, 1957
was a Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.[Bach]
[Beethoven]
[Schubert]
[Chopin]
[Schumann]
[Liszt]
[Brahms]
Claudio Arrau
February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991)
was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms.
He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov
14 April 1943 – 3 August 2011
was a Russian pianist.
Petrov was born in Moscow, the son of the cellist Arnold Ferkelman and the grandson of the operatic bass Vasily Rodionovich Petrov, and began learning the piano at the age of three.
At the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory his teacher was Tatyana Kestner and in 1961 Petrov entered the class of Yakov Zak at the Conservatory itself.Van Cliburn
July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013
was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 (during the Cold War).
Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students and arranged for him to start taking lessons.Nicholas Angelich (born 1970) is an American pianist.傳送們-Composers and Pianists傳送們-中世紀傳送們-History of Harpsichord傳送們-Famous Violinist
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