- Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the piano. Today, he is considered to be one of the greatest pianists in history, despite the fact that no recordings of his playing exist. Liszt is frequently credited with re-defining piano playing itself, and his influence is still visible today, … - Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures "Lyric Pieces". - Leif Ove Andsnes
Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norwegian pianist. He studied with Jiri Hlinka at the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen. He is an ardent champion of the works of Edvard Grieg. Andsnes is one of the most respected classical pianists in the world today and has been nominated for the prestigious Grammy Awards four times (as of December 2004). He has won numerous awards, including the Hindemith-Prize (1987), Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (1997), Royal Philharmonic Society Award, … - Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist. He was born in Milan, his father being 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 with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. - Mitsuko Uchida
(born December 20, 1948) is a classical pianist. - Krystian Zimerman
Krystian Zimerman is a Polish classical virtuoso pianist. He was born in Zabrze and studied at the Katowice Conservatory under Andrzej Jasinski. His career was launched when he won the Warsaw International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1975. He performed with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert von Karajan in 1976 and he made his American début with the New York Philharmonic in 1979. He has toured widely and made a number of recordings. - Evgeny Kissin
Evgeny Igorevich Kissin is a virtuoso classical pianist. Kissin was born in Moscow to a Jewish family. At age 11 months, he reportedly was able to hum along to a Bach tune his sister Alla was playing on the piano. At age 6 he commenced his own piano studies at the esteemed Gnessin School of Music for Gifted Children where he became a student of Anna Pavlovna Kantor. - Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928) is an American pianist and conductor. He was born in San Francisco, California, where he started studying the piano at age 4. He made his public debut at age 8 and played with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Monteux at 16. He studied with Artur Schnabel. He made a memorable series of recordings with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra before losing the use of his right hand due to focal dystonia. - William Kapell
William Kapell was an American pianist. The critic Harold Schonberg once considered Kapell the most promising American pianist of the post-World War II generation. Unfortunately, Kapell's brilliant career was cut short when he died at the age of thirty-one in an airplane crash. His style was direct, clear, and energetic; his technique impeccable; and his repertoire eclectic and adventurous. Kapell was born in New York City of Russian Jewish descent. - Barry Douglas
Barry Douglas (born April 23, 1960) is a British classical pianist. Born in Belfast, he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986, the first non-Russian pianist to do so since Van Cliburn. Barry Douglas received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year's Honours List for services to music. He also received a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music where he is Prince Consort Professor of Piano and an Hon. - Anton Kuerti
Anton (Emil) Kuerti is a Canadian pianist, music teacher and composer. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven. Kuerti studied music at the Longy School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski. - John Ireland
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 - 12 June 1962) was an English composer. Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His parents died soon after he had entered the Royal College of Music at the age of 14. He studied piano and organ there, and later composition under Charles Villiers Stanford. He subsequently became a teacher at the College himself, … - Hubert Parry
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Baronet (February 27, 1848 - October 7, 1918) was an English composer, probably best known for his setting of William Blake's poem, "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton," which sets the words "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind". - Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells CH (17 October, 1892 - 23 February, 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher. - Edwin Fischer
Edwin Fischer (October 6, 1886 - January 24, 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the 20th century, particularly in the traditional Germanic repertoire of such composers as Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. He is also regarded as one of the finest piano teachers of modern times. Fischer was born in Basel and studied music first there, … - John Browning
John Browning (born 23 May 1933; died 26 January 2003), was an American pianist known for his reserved, elegant style and sophisticated interpretations of Bach and Scarlatti, and for his collaboration with the American composer Samuel Barber. Browning was born to musical parents in Denver in 1933. Having studied piano from age 5, he appeared as a soloist with the Denver Symphony at 10. In 1945 his family moved to Los Angeles. He spent two years at Occidental College there. - Nicholas Angelich
Nicholas Angelich is an American pianist. Born in the United States, he began to study the piano with his mother at the age of five. He gave his first concert at the age of seven, with a chamber orchestra in the United States, when he performed Mozart's piano concerto in C major, K.467. At the age of thirteen he entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, where his teachers included Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff, … - Lazar Berman
Lazar Naumovich Berman (Russian Лазарь Наумович Берман, "Lasari Naumovič Berman February 26, 1930 in Leningrad - February 6, 2005 in Florence) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. Berman's playing showed great technical brilliance, showmanship, emotional and physical force. He had the endurance to play three concertos or four sonatas in one night, and was considered a brilliant interpreter of Franz Liszt, … - Ferdinand Ries
Ferdinand Ries, from a musical family of Bonn, was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler. He was also a composer who left eight symphonies, a violin concerto and nine piano concertos, and numerous other works in many genres. Of these the symphonies, some chamber works - most of them with piano - and one of his concertos have been recorded, … - Moritz Moszkowski
Moritz Moszkowski was a Polish-Jewish composer, pianist and teacher. He studied in Dresden and later Berlin, under Theodor Kullak and others. He was a teacher in Berlin for many years. His pupils included Frank Damrosch, Józef Hofmann, Joaquin Nin, Vlado Perlemuter, Ernest Schelling and Joaquin Turina. After a successful career as a concert pianist and conductor, he settled in Paris in 1897, where he died in obscurity and poverty. - Elena Kats-Chernin
Elena Kats-Chernin is a Soviet-born Australian music composer. She was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzbekistan — but then, part of the Soviet Union), and emigrated to Australia in 1975. She studied composition with Richard Toop, and later with Helmut Lachenmann in Germany. While in Europe she became active in theatre and ballet, composing for state theatres in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Bochum. - Wilhelm Stenhammar
Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 - November 20, 1927) was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. Stenhammar was born in Stockholm and his musical education first took place there. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner. Stenhammar himself described the style of his First Symphony in F major as "idyllic Bruckner". - Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (born December 16, 1932) is a Russian composer. He has been the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers since 1973. He was born in Moscow and studied at the Moscow Conservatory (graduating in 1955) under Yuri Shaporin and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Since 1958, he has been married to the great ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who is 7 years his senior. Schedrin's early music is tonal, colourfully orchestrated and often includes snatches of folk music, … - Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich (born Leningrad on May 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works. He was educated at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories before becoming chief conductor of the Union Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra. While he was Principal Conductor of the USSR Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, … - Malcolm Bilson
Malcolm Bilson, born October 24, 1935, is a pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version of the piano. Bilson teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music. Bilson is known for his series of recordings (on the Archiv label) of the piano concertos of Mozart, in collaboration with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. - Egon Wellesz
Egon Joseph Wellesz (October 21 1885 - November 9 1974) Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Byzantine music. Left Austria for England in the wake of the Anschluss - more specifically, as noted in a review of the recent recording of songs and orchestral works on the Capriccio label - probably quoting their program notes - was in the Netherlands at the time by good fortune. - Christian Sinding
Christian August Sinding (January 11, 1856-December 3, 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Kongsberg and studied music first in Oslo before going to Germany, where he studied at the conservatory in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn. He lived in Germany for much of his life, but received regular grants from the Norwegian government. In 1920-21 he went to the United States of America to teach composition for a season at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, … - Yehudi Wyner
Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. Although Wyner was born in Calgary in 1929, he was raised in New York City. Wyner grew up in a musical family led by his father, Lazar Weiner, the preeminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner himself has written in a variety of genres, including compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice, and solo instruments, … - Xaver Scharwenka
Franz Xaver Scharwenka was a Polish-German musician who was a noted pianist, composer, music educator and organizer. He was generally known by his middle name Xaver. Scharwenka was born in Samtner near the city of Poznań, which was then in the province of Posen in Southern Prussia and has since been restored to Poland. With his family, he moved to Berlin in 1865 where he studied music under Theodor Kullak. - Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolay Tcherepnin, (pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin, (a member of the Harvard University faculty) were also composers. His son, Serge, was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments. His mother (née Benois) was a niece of Alexandre Benois. His early works were fairly original and some of his pieces have enduring popularity. - Friedrich Kuhlau
Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (September 11 1786 - March 12 1832) was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. Born in Germany, after losing his right eye in a street accident at the age of seven, he studied piano in Hamburg. His father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even though Kuhlau was born to a poor family, his parents managed to pay for pianoforte lessons. - Emil von Sauer
Emil George Conrad von Sauer (October 8 1862 in Hamburg - April 27 1942 in Vienna) was a historicaly notable German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano)teacher. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation, emphisizing the original Franz Liszt approach to pianism as well as a strong Romantic approach to a musical technique that demanded a total command of the keyboard in what was known as the Liszt School of piano. - Ronald Stevenson
Ronald Stevenson (born March 6, 1928 in Blackburn) is a British composer, virtuoso, pianist, and writer about music. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (which is now incorporated in the Royal Northern College of Music), graduating with distinction in 1948. He was instrumental in reviving the works of Ferruccio Busoni, and corresponded with Percy Grainger. Among his many compositions, one of the most notable is his 'Passacaglia on DSCH for solo piano, … - Donald Francis Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (July 17, 1875 - July 10, 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer and pianist. He is best known for his "Essays in Musical Analysis". Tovey began to study the piano and compose at an early age. He eventually studied composition with Hubert Parry. Tovey became a close friend of Joseph Joachim, and played piano with the Joachim Quartet in a 1905 performance of Johannes Brahms' Piano Quintet. - Elizabeth Maconchy
Dame Elizabeth Maconchy DBE (b. March 19 1907, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire - d. November 11 1994) was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets. - Alan Bush
Alan Bush (December 22, 1900 - October 31, 1995) was a British composer and pianist. Bush was born in London first attending Highgate School and then the Royal Academy of Music. Later he studied musicology and philosophy in Berlin and later still had lessons with the composer John Ireland. He studied the piano under Benno Moiseiwitsch and Artur Schnabel. From 1925 to 1978 he taught at the Royal Academy of Music. He was known as an outspoken advocate of Marxism, … - Simon Barere
Simon Barere was a Jewish-born, Russian-American pianist. Barere was born in Odessa as the eleventh of thirteen children. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Annette Essipova and then Felix Blumenfeld. After graduation Barere began to concertize widely, at the same time teaching at the Kyiv Conservatory. He emigrated to Berlin, then to Sweden and finally to the United States. - Harriet Cohen
Harriet Cohen (December 2, 1895 - November 13, 1967) was a British pianist. She was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay. She became particularly associated with contemporary British music, giving the world premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Piano Concerto" and recording Edward Elgar's "Piano Quintet" with the Stratton String Quartet under the composer's supervision. - Nikolai Kapustin
Nikolai Kapustin (Russian: Николай Капустин, "Nikolaj Kapustin"; born 1937 in Gorlovka, Ukraine) is a Russian composer and pianist. Kapustin studied piano with Avrelian Rubakh (pupil of Felix Blumenfeld who also taught Simon Barere and Vladimir Horowitz) and, later, Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory. During the 1950s he acquired a reputation as a jazz pianist, arranger and composer. - Charles Strouse
Charles Strouse, is an American composer and three-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical. Charles Strouse’s music has been an integral part of American culture for over forty years. His first Broadway musical was the smash hit BYE BYE BIRDIE (written with long time collaborator Lee Adams).
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