The Grammy-winning pianist had an international career that spanned more than six decades
Maurizio Pollini, a celebrated Italian pianist whose playing combined intellectual rigor with technical mastery, died March 23 at age 82.
His repertory expanded beyond the standard classics, not only through early 20th century masterpieces by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern but on to leading postwar modernists such asMr. Pollini made the most difficult music thrilling and immediate. A 1983 recital at New York’s Lincoln Center began with Beethoven’s “” Variations .
For other listeners, Mr. Pollini was simply one of the greatest artists of his time, a musician who offered pristinely clear, clean, linear and proportionate playing, yet found fresh and unexpected beauties in anything he took on. Los Angeles Times classical music critic Daniel Cariaga once wrote that Mr. Pollini “walks onto the stage as one entering a church. Such an approach not only tends to remind us of the basic nature of art; it also makes other practitioners in the field seem frivolous.
He began to play the piano at 5, gave his first recital when he was 11 and played a complete Milan performance of the staggeringly challenging Chopin Etudes in 1956. In March 1960, barely 18, he entered the sixth Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw as the youngest foreign pianist among a group of 89 contestants representing 30 countries., the honorary chairman and among the most celebrated Chopin pianists of his time, spoke for his colleagues when he declared that Mr.
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