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Claudio Arrau León MP (1903 - 1991)

Claudio Arrau León (Chillán, Chile, 7 de febrero de 1903 - Mürzzuschlag, Austria, 9 de junio de 1991) fue un célebre pianista chileno famoso en todo el mundo por sus profundas interpretaciones de un ex...

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Franz Schubert MP (1797 - 1828)

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Ave Maria Ave Maria - Luciano Pavarotti Ave Maria - Jessye Norman Although he died at an early age, Schub...

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Artur Schnabel MP (1882 - 1951)

Artur Schnabel plays Beethoven Sonata #32 in C min Op. 111 , Artur Schnabel plays Beethoven Piano Sonata No.24, 25 & 26 Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was an Austrian classical pia...

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David Oistrakh (1908 - 1974)

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Toscha Seidel MP (1899 - 1962)

Toscha Seidel (17 November 1899 – 15 November 1962) was a Russian virtuoso violinist, born in Odessa. A student of Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, Seidel became known for a lush, romantic tone and un...

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José Carreras MP

Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (born 5 December 1946), better known as José Carreras , is a Spanish and Catalan tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini. B...

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Jan Peerce MP (1904 - 1984)

Jan Peerce:Shma Yisroel - שמע ישראל , Jan Peerce - "Nessun dorma" - Turandot (Puccini) The American tenor Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in a New York cold water flat in the ...

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Richard Tucker MP (1913 - 1975)

Richard Tucker sings the Kol Nidre כל נדרי , Richard Tucker - No, Pagliaccio non son (Live) Biography Brooklyn-born tenor Richard Tucker had a unique dual career. As one of the great voices of ...

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Beverly Sills MP (1929 - 2007)

Beverly Sills - Una Voce Poco Fa!! (1976) , Beverly Sills - Dunque io son! - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was...

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Yo-Yo Ma MP

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an Chinese American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal ...

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Guiomar Novaes MP (1894 - 1979)

Guiomar Novaes (São João da Boa Vista, 28 de fevereiro de 1894 — São Paulo, 7 de março de 1979) foi uma pianista brasileira que construiu sólida carreira no exterior, particularmente nos Estados Unidos...

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Arthur Bodanzky (1877 - 1939)

Biografy Was an Austrian-American conductor particularly associated with the operas of Wagner. Career The gravesite of Artur Bodanzky in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY The son of Jewis...

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Arturo Toscanini MP (1867 - 1957)

Arturo Toscanini (Italian pronunciation: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, he w...

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Josef Konecny (1883 - 1974)

Josef N Konecny was born March 5, 1883 in Vienna, Austria to Johann Konecny and Anna . Josef and his family came to America in the spring of 1890. Josef was a violin virtuoso and performed all over the...

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Artur Rubinstein MP (1887 - 1982)

Chopin - Heroic Polonaise Op. 53 - Arthur Rubinstein , Arthur Rubinstein plays Liszt etude "La campanella" Artur Rubinstein w Wikipedii po Polsku Artur Rubinstein on Wikipedia in English Arth...

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Clara Schumann MP (1819 - 1896)

Clara Schumann (née Clara Josephine Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. She exerted her in...

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Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler MP (1875 - 1962)

Fritz Kreisler plays Liebesfreud by him Caprice Viennois Kreisler plays Hungarian Rondo by Haydn Kreisler Plays Smetana Bohemian Fantasie Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – Januar...

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Charles Ansbacher (1942 - 2010)

Charles Ansbacher (October 5, 1942 – September 12, 2010) was an American conductor. After undergraduate and graduate work at Brown University ('65) and the University of Cincinnati (M.M. 1968, D.M.A....

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John Ogdon MP (1937 - 1989)

John Ogdon From John Ogdon (Piano) Born: January 27, 1937 - Manchester, England Died: August 1, 1989 - London, England The English remarkable pianist and composer, John (Andrew Howard) Ogdo...

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Alfred Brendel, KBE MP

London, UK

Alfred Brendel From "If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, o...

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Hazel Scott MP (1920 - 1981)

Hazel Scott was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago to Alma Long Scott, a musician. They moved to New York City when Hazel was four. Recognized as a child musical prodigy, the young Scott was aw...

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Luciano Pavarotti MP (1935 - 2007)

Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commerc...

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Niccolò Paganini MP (1782 - 1840)

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark...

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Francis Hopkinson, signer of "the Declaration of Independance" MP (1737 - 1791)

Francis Hopkinson (September 21, 1737 – May 9, 1791), an American author, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey. He later served as a federal judge in ...

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Natalina Cavalieri MP (1874 - 1944)

Lina Cavalieri Born Natalina Cavalieri at Viterbo on 25 December 1874, she lost her parents when she was fifteen and was sent to live in an orphanage as a ward of the state. A vivacious young girl, s...

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Artur Rodziński MP (1892 - 1958)

Artur Rodziński (January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958) Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music Artur Rodziński was born in Split, the capital of Dalmatia on January 1, 1892. Soon after, hi...

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Fryderyk / Frederic Chopin MP (1810 - 1849)

Ballade in G Minor (Horowitz) , Revolution Etude Op.10 No.12 (Encore, Kissin) , Nocturne No. 2 (Op. 9) (Yundi Li) , [ [ Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11],

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Franz Liszt MP (1811 - 1886)

Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C- Sharp Minor , Liebestraum , Les Préludes (1/2) , Les Préludes (2/2) , Three Concert Etudes S.144 No.3 "Un Sospiro" (Hamelin) .

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Ravi Shankar MP (1920 - 2012)

Ravi Shankar was a world-renowned musician, composer, performer, and scholar of classical Indian music. He was one of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth century whose accomplishments place h...

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Janis Joplin MP (1943 - 1970)

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding C...

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Édith Piaf MP (1915 - 1963)

She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion, and was a French singer and cultural icon who became universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Early Life: Despite numerous biographies, much of...

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Isadora Duncan MP (1877 - 1927)

Photos Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 - September 14, 1927) was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Europe and the Soviet Union fro...

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Paul Wittgenstein (1887 - 1961)

Paul Wittgenstein From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Wittgenstein (November 5, 1887 – March 3, 1961) was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just h...

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Arnold Rosé (1863 - 1946)

-------------------- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arnold Josef Rosé (born Rosenblum, October 24, 1863, Iaşi – August 25, 1946, London) was a Romanian-born Austrian Jewish violinist. He w...

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Rudolf Kolisch MP (1896 - 1978)

Rudolf Kolisch (July 20, 1896 - August 1, 1978) was a Viennese violinist and leader of string quartets. Kolisch was born in Klamm, Lower Austria and raised in Vienna. His father (also named Rudolf ...

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Prof. Dr. Joseph Joachim (1831 - 1907)

Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 – August 15, 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. He is widely regarded as a great and significantly influential violinist of the late 19th ...

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Bronislaw Huberman MP (1882 - 1947)

Bronislaw Huberman plays Paganini: La campanella, 1923 ; Bronislaw Huberman plays Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2 ; Bronislaw Huberman plays Tchaikovsky Concerto (1928) - part 1 . Bronislaw Huberma...

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Gidon Kremer MP

Gidon Kremer plays Astor Piazzolla Tango Etude No.3 ; Gidon Kremer plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Spring (I. Allegro) ; Gidon Kremer plays Bach, Chaconne . Gidon Kremer (Latvian: Gidons Krēmers...

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Daniel Barenboim MP

Celibidache Barenboim Tchaikovsky Piano concerto no. 1 MVT 1C , Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Johannes Brahms: Concerto for violin, cello and orchestr...

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Jacqueline du Pre MP (1945 - 1987)

Jacqueline Du Pre plays Elgar Concerto - Part 1.avi ; Jacqueline du Pré plays Max Bruch Kol Nidrei Op. 47 ; Jacqueline du Pre plays Silent Woods (Dvorak) ; Jacqueline du Pre plays Franck sonata A...

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach MP (1714 - 1788)

Et Misericordia from CPE Bach's Magnificat Sonata for Harpsichord in A major Sonatina n1 Concerto in D Minor, Part 1 . Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) was a German...

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Johann Sebastian Bach MP (1685 - 1750)

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ Double Violin Concerto in D Minor, 1st mvt. BWV 1043 Brandenburg Concerto #3, First Movement, Allegro Bouree In E Minor Johann Sebastian Bach [ (31 March 1...

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Anna Sarnoff MP (1932 - 2006)

Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 - March 9, 2006) was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerabl...

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Enrico Caruso MP (1873 - 1921)

Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America. Caruso also made approximately 290 c...

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Leonard Bernstein, [Louis Borenstein] MP (1918 - 1990)

Candide Overture: Leonard Bernstein conducting , Symphonic Dances - Part 1 (from West Side Story) , Symphonic Dances - Part 2 (from West Side Story) , Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein (pronounce...

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Jascha Heifetz MP (1901 - 1987)

Jascha Heifetz plays Paganini Caprice No. 24 ; Jascha Heifetz plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: I. Allegro moderato ; Jascha Heifetz plays Rondo (from Serenade No. 7 "Haffner", ...

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Zubin Mehta MP

Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of western classical music. Biography Zubin Mehta was born into a Parsi family in Mumbai, India, the son of Mehli and Tehmina Mehta. His fath...

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André Previn MP

André George Previn KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin) is a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is a winner of several Academy Awards for his film work and Grammy Awards for his rec...

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Leopold Stokowski MP (1882 - 1977)

Leopold Stokowski was a British-born American orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sou...

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Maria Callas MP (1923 - 1977)

Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) An American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive be...

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Alfred Arnold Cocozza - Mario Lanza MP (1921 - 1959)

Mario Lanza (From Wikipedia) Mario Lanza (January 31, 1921 - October 7, 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian immigrants, he began s...

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Mischa Elman MP (1891 - 1967)

Mischa Elman plays "Violin Concerto No. 2", Bruch (2. Mov.) ; Mischa Elman plays Vivaldi's Concerto In G Minor, Op.12 No.1 ; Mischa Elman plays Tchaikovsky Concerto Mvt 3 ; Mischa Elman plays Tch...

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Yaltah Menuhin-Rolfe-Ryce MP (1921 - 2001)

Yaltah Menuhin [From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American pianist. Yaltah was born of Russian Jewish parents in San Francisco, the younges...

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Hephzibah Menuhin-Hauser MP (1920 - 1981)

Hephzibah Menuhin (20 May 1920 - 1 January 1981) was an American-Jewish pianist and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Lord Menuhin (Yehudi Menuhin) and to the pianist, painter, a...

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Yehudi Menuhin, OM, KBE MP (1916 - 1999)

Yehudi Menuhin plays Bach Chaconne (Part 1) Yehudi Menuhin plays Paganini Concerto for Violin no 1 in D major, Op. 6: 3rd movement Yehudi Menuhin plays Mendelssohn violin concerto (excerpt) Yehud...

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