Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel

male, 77 years old
Rolf Schock Prize laureate, Classical musician, bonn, theatre of the absurd, PeRFoRMaNCe, From Buenos Aires…Beethoven House, Beethoven
Mauricio Kagel (born Buenos Aires, December 24 1931) is an Argentine composer who has lived in Cologne, Germany since 1957. He is most famous for...
Luigi Cherubini

Luigi Cherubini

male, deceased (1842)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Italian opera composer, Classical era composer, composer, Italian, Opera composer…Beethoven
Luigi Cherubini (September 14, 1760 - March 15, 1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. Although his music is...
Artur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel

male, deceased (1951)
Musician who left Nazi Germany, Jewish, German, naturalized citizen of the United States, composer, pianist…Beethoven
Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 - August 15, 1951) was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was renowned for his...
Alfred Cortot

Alfred Cortot

male, deceased (1962)
Conductor, pianist, French, Classical pianist, Beethoven, irma la douce
Alfred Denis Cortot was a Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most popular 20th century musicians, renowned for his poetic insight in...
Charles Rosen

Charles Rosen

male, 82 years old
Diabelli Variations, scriabin, Beethoven, BBC, debussy, J.S. Bach
Charles Rosen (born May 5, 1927) is an American pianist and music theorist. He was a piano student of Moriz Rosenthal. In an interview published in...

András Schiff

male, 56 years old
pianist, hungarian, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, J.S. Bach, Bela Bartok, Jewish…Beethoven
András Schiff is a Hungarian-born classical pianist. He was born in Budapest and began piano lessons at the age of 5 with Elisabeth Vadasz. Schiff s...
Marek Janowski

Marek Janowski

male, 70 years old
Conductor, Orcheste de la suisse romanderr, Hungarian Dances, weber, Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Variations on a Theme by Haydn…Beethoven
Marek Janowski has been Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2002 and in 2005 he was also appointed Musical Director of...
Clara Haskil

Clara Haskil

female, deceased (1960)
Jewish, premier prix, Paris Conservatoire, scoliosis, Romantic music, European classical music…Beethoven
Clara Haskil (January 7, 1895 - December 7, 1960) was a classical pianist. A celebrated interpreter of classical and early romantic repertoire,...
Nelson Freire

Nelson Freire

male, 65 years old
Harriet Cohen Medal, Nise Obino, Lucia Branco, Vaclav Neumann, Piano Sonata No. 11, Sonata in A major, K. 331…Beethoven
Nelson Freire is a Brazilian classical pianist. Freire began playing the piano when he was three years old, amazing everyone around him by...
Gundula Janowitz

Gundula Janowitz

female, 72 years old
Austrian, diva, Soprano, Graz Conservatory, Berlin, Germany, Divas…Beethoven
Gundula Janowitz (born August 2, 1937 in Berlin, Germany) was one of the greatest lyric sopranos in modern history, renowned for her magnificent...