Maurizio Pollini
Sign in to saveItalian pianist and conductor (1942–2024)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1942
- Active to
- 2024
classicalitalian pianistpianist
Discography
- Schoenberg: The Piano Music1975
- Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume 78: Maurizio Pollini1998
- Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume 79: Maurizio Pollini II1999
- Maurizio Pollini Edition2001
- Schumann: Fantasy in C; Arabesque / Liszt: Sonata in B minor; La lugubre gondola2001
- Steinway Legends: Maurizio Pollini2006
- The Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings2015
- Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon2016
- Pollini Plays Beethoven2016
- Bach, Beethoven, Chopin: Maurizio Pollini2023
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 101,424
- Total plays
- 1,894,619
Tags
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Maurizio Pollini (5 January 1942 – 23 March 2024) was 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maurizio
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Milan
- Place of death
- Milan
- Father
- Gino Pollini
- Occupation
- concertmaster
- Educated at
- Milan Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Student of
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Image
- Maurizio Pollini01.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Work location
- Rome
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- Commons category
- Maurizio Pollini
- date of birth
- 1942-01-05
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- date of death
- 2024-03-23
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
- name in native language
- Maurizio Pollini
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