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The Chinese pianist shot to almost rock-star level fame in the year 2000 when he became the youngest ever winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, at the age of 18 – and he would return as a member of the jury in 2015.
Gina Alice Redlingerm. 2019
39 years (June 14, 1982)
Evan Le is a 9-year-old incredible pianist from California. He developed an interest in Piano at a very young age and started playing it at 2.5 years of age.
Perhaps the most difficult piece ever written for piano, Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto is 40 minutes of finger-twisting madness.
There have been many great Mozart pianists: Daniel Barenboim, Friedrich Gulda, Ingrid Haebler, Clara Haskil, Murray Perahia, Maria Joao Pires, Mitsuko Uchida etc etc.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
December 5th is the anniversary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In November 1791 the composer fell ill with a serious disease and died two weeks later at the age of 35. The death certificate states he died of “severe miliary fever”.
Mozart’s most beautiful piano concertos
The first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453, is in first-movement concerto form and has four major themes. In addition to Theme 1, Theme 2, and a closing theme, all heard in both expositions, there is also a piano theme heard in the solo exposition.
The first time we hear the piano theme, in the exposition, it is played in the contrasting key of D major. Listen to the opening of the piano theme as played in the exposition:After a transition passage, the piano theme returns, but this time it is played in the home key of G major.
Constanze Mozartm. 1782–1791
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