Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died. He was 82.
Maurizio Pollini performs his concert for Musica Insieme at Municipal Theater of Bologna on January 9, 2017 in Bologna, Italy.Pollini died on Saturday , La Scala said in a statement. The announcement didn’t specify a cause of death, but Pollini had been forced to cancel a concert at the Salzburg Festival in 2022 because of heart problems.career, Pollini’s repertoire expanded beyond the standard classics.
Pollini began giving concerts before his 10th birthday, performing Chopin’s Etudes at age 14 and then winning the International Chopin Piano Competition at 18, as the youngest foreign pianist among a group of 89 contestants. “I wanted to study, get to know the repertoire better, play the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms,” he said.
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