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Claudio Arrau León ( Spanish: [ ˈklawðjo aˈraw]; February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms.
Jun 10, 1991 · Claudio Arrau, one of the great pianists of the 20th century, died yesterday in Murzzuschlag, Austria. He was 88 years old and lived in Munich. Friede F. Rothe, Mr. Arrau's personal...
May 18, 2018 · Claudio Arrau. Musical genius, prodigy, and boy wonder are some of the words most often used to describe Claudio Arrau (1903-1991). Regarded by many music critics as a master interpreter and impassioned artist, Arrau enjoyed a stellar, if sometimes unorthodox, career that spanned over 80 years.
Born in 1903, the slight Claudio Arrau — not even 5'5" tall — was a contemporary of such piano greats as Solomon (b. 1902), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Rudolf Serkin (1903), Clifford Curzon (1907) and Shura Cherkassky (1909). Semi-orphaned, he went to Berlin at age ten, where he was under the musical and familial tutelage of Martin Krause ...
Claudio Arrau, throughout a long career spanning the continents and most of the century, has consistently put a supreme keyboard mastery at the total service of his art, achieving fame not only as a celebrated interpreter of Beethoven, but also of Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Debussy.
Dec 4, 2015 · December 4, 2015. Claudio Arrau. Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance. ~ Seng-chao. Arrau is the tree-planter of the piano.
Claudio Arrau | Classical Pianists. 1903-1991. * 1903-02-06 (Chillán) † 1991-06-09 (Mürzzuschlag, 88yo) Teachers: Lucrecia León Bravo de Villalba, Martin Krause. Important pupils: Antônio Barbosa, Garrick Ohlsson. Arrau is the musician’s pianist, rather than the romantic pianist that delights popular imagination.
