Grammy-winning Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has died.
FILE - Pianist Maurizio Pollini performs at Carnegie Hall in New York Monday evening, March 19, 2001. He was 82. Pollini performed frequently at Milans La Scala. The opera house said in a statement that he died on Saturday March 23, 2024, without giving a cause of death. – Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died. He was 82.
Pollini was considered a pianist with unique intellectual power, whose unrivalled technique and interpretive drive compelled listeners to think deeply. Pollini began giving concerts before his 10th birthday, performing Chopin’s Etudes at age 14 and then winning the International Chopin Piano Competition at 18, as the youngest foreign pianist among a group of 89 contestants.
“I wanted to study, get to know the repertoire better, play the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms,” he said.
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