Alexis Weissenberg

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Bulgaria

Active from

1929-07-26

Active to

2012-01-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

94,270

Total plays

714,753

Alexis Weissenberg (July 26, 1929 – January 8, 2012) was a Bulgarian-born French pianist. He was born in Sofia and had piano lessons from the age of three with Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to Palestine in 1945, where he studied with Leo Kestenberg, he went to the Juilliard School in 1946 to study with Olga Samaroff. He also consulted Artur Schnabel and Wanda Landowska. In 1947 he made <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alexis+Weisse

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,794x

2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,998x

3. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

   · 2013 · cited 8,580x

4. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,817x

5. A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

   · 2008 · cited 6,753x

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