Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.
Read Full Bio ↴Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.
He was born in Milan, the son of the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960, after which he studied under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
Since the mid-1960s, he has given recitals and appeared with major orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974.
Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of our age, he is especially noted for his performances of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Important modern works were composed for Pollini, notably Nonoโs โฆsofferte onde sereneโฆ, Giacomo Manzoniโs Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varรจse and Salvatore Sciarrino's fifth sonata. He displays an absolute technical sovereignty over the piano, but is sometimes criticized for his emotional conservatism. He has conducted both opera and orchestral music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in concertos. His first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1971 included Stravinskyโs Three Movements from โPetrushkaโ and Prokofievโs Seventh Sonata and is still considered a landmark of twentieth century piano discography. Since then he has been one of Deutsche Grammophon's leading pianists. In 1985, on occasion of Bach's tricentennial, he performed the complete first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier. In 1987 he played the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos in New York with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and received on this occasion the orchestraโs Honorary Ring. In 1993/1994 he played his first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles in Berlin and Munich and later also in New York, Milan, Paris, London and Vienna. At the Salzburg Festival in 1995 he inaugurated the โProgetto Polliniโ, a series of concerts in which old and new works are juxtaposed. An analogous experience will be done at Carnegie Hall in 2000/2001 with โPerspectives: Maurizio Polliniโ. In 1996 he received the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. In 2001 his recording of Beethovenโs Diabelli Variations won the Diapason dโor. In 2002 Deutsche Grammophon released a 13 CD commemorative edition to celebrate the pianist's 60th birthday.
In 2007, Pollini received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Chopin nocturnes.
Read Full Bio ↴Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.
He was born in Milan, the son of the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960, after which he studied under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
Since the mid-1960s, he has given recitals and appeared with major orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974.
Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of our age, he is especially noted for his performances of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Important modern works were composed for Pollini, notably Nonoโs โฆsofferte onde sereneโฆ, Giacomo Manzoniโs Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varรจse and Salvatore Sciarrino's fifth sonata. He displays an absolute technical sovereignty over the piano, but is sometimes criticized for his emotional conservatism. He has conducted both opera and orchestral music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in concertos. His first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1971 included Stravinskyโs Three Movements from โPetrushkaโ and Prokofievโs Seventh Sonata and is still considered a landmark of twentieth century piano discography. Since then he has been one of Deutsche Grammophon's leading pianists. In 1985, on occasion of Bach's tricentennial, he performed the complete first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier. In 1987 he played the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos in New York with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and received on this occasion the orchestraโs Honorary Ring. In 1993/1994 he played his first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles in Berlin and Munich and later also in New York, Milan, Paris, London and Vienna. At the Salzburg Festival in 1995 he inaugurated the โProgetto Polliniโ, a series of concerts in which old and new works are juxtaposed. An analogous experience will be done at Carnegie Hall in 2000/2001 with โPerspectives: Maurizio Polliniโ. In 1996 he received the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. In 2001 his recording of Beethovenโs Diabelli Variations won the Diapason dโor. In 2002 Deutsche Grammophon released a 13 CD commemorative edition to celebrate the pianist's 60th birthday.
In 2007, Pollini received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Chopin nocturnes.
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Etudes-Caprices for 2 Violins Op.18: No.2 in E Flat Major
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@amarteville426
@@M0tt0ri
I remember about an International Competition of Composition in Genรจve (Prix Reine Marie-Josรฉ ) ; they never thought about giving a second price ; but they were finally despite they didn't give it to me ...
I 'd been advice that one of the member of jury felt so despite about this, that he suddenly stood up, and started to show the others members an example PLAYED ... ( it was for String quartett + Chromatic Accordeon, a piece called " Arcangel de Piedra, de Nube , de Arco รris " )
But they couldn't at least change the results , nor the rules , and create suddenly a second price, so , later, they invited me to come back (and other things but it's too long to tell here ..)
I was so on the shock that I refused ...
But I do regret, I have been quite stupid ...
I was young , and just before of that, before this Swiss story, I win an International Composition Price for piano solo ( "Trois figures de rhรฉtorique " )...
Well , I know that for all of these people members for the price in Genรจve, at least , the price was mine ...
but ...
but ...
@wk3004
His heart probably skipped eight beats right there
@Classical-Inspiration
Mine did just by watching
@Capuzzi09
make it nine xD
@54r4gre
Na 32๐
@Erain616
Of coz, this guy lost his big fat prize due to the orchestraโs mistake.
@l3oke.tto_0926
H @@Erain616 he was offered to play again
@rnjesus9950
He looked at the conductor with the intensity of 70 flying flip flops.
@Mr3121996
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@kholi9441
He was throwing laser death rays with his eyes
@prettyfaerie7
Great comment