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Pianist
A pianist (pronounced /ˈpiː.ənɨst/ (PEE-ə-nist) or /piˈænɨst/ (pee-A-nist)) is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Ferencz Liszt, in modern usage Ferenc Liszt, from 1859 to 1865 officially Franz Ritter von Liszt) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. He was also the father-in-law of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1811
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1886 (age 74 years)
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes Szopen; surname pronounced /ˈʃoʊpæn/ in English; French pronunciation: [ʃɔpɛ̃]; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1810
Date of death:
- Oct 17, 1849 (age 39 years)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil’evič Rakhmaninov, 1 April 1873 [O.S. 20 March] – 28 March 1943) was a Russian-American composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1873
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1943 (age 70 years)
Sigismond Thalberg
Sigismond Thalberg (January 8, 1812 – April 27, 1871) was a composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
Sigismond Thalberg was born in Pâquis near Geneva, Switzerland, on January 8, 1812. According to his birth...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1812
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1871 (age 59 years)
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Скря́бин, Russian pronunciation: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr nʲɪkəˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈskrʲæbʲɪn], Aleksandr Nikolajevič Skr'abin; sometimes transliterated as Skriabin, Skryabin, or Scriabine) (6 January 1872 ...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1872
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1915 (age 43 years)
Ignaz Moscheles
(Isaac) Ignaz Moscheles (May 23, 1794 – March 10, 1870) was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1794
Date of death:
- Mar 10, 1870 (age 75 years)
Arcadi Volodos
Arcadi Volodos (Russian: Аркадий Володось, Arcadij Volodos) (born February 24, 1972) is a Russian pianist. His first name is sometimes transliterated Arcady or Arkady. Volodos is renowned for his technical mastery of the instrument's virtuosic...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1972 (age 37 years)
Krystian Zimerman
Krystian Zimerman (born December 5, 1956) is a Polish classical pianist, who is widely regarded as one of the finest pianists in the world.
Zimerman was born in Zabrze, Poland, and studied at the Katowice Conservatory under Andrzej Jasiński. His...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1956 (age 53 years)
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев; Ukrainian: Сергій Сергійович Прокоф'єв) (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1891
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1953 (age 61 years)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (January 5, 1920 – June 12, 1995) was an Italian classical pianist.
Born in Brescia, Italy, he began music lessons at the age of three, initially with the violin, but quickly switched to the piano. At ten he entered the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1920
Date of death:
- Jun 12, 1995 (age 75 years)
Sviatoslav Richter
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Ukrainian: Святослав Теофілович Ріхтер Svjatoslav Teofilovič Rikhter; Russian: Святосла́в Теофи́лович Ри́хтер) (March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist well known for the depth of his...
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1915
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 1997 (age 82 years)
Antonio Diabelli
Anton Diabelli (5 September 1781 – 8 April 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1781
Date of death:
- Apr 7, 1858 (age 76 years)
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (pronounced /ˈbɑrtɒk/ (Wells 1990), Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]) (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1881
Date of death:
- Sep 26, 1945 (age 64 years)
Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy (French pronunciation: [aʃil klod dəbysi]) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he...
Date of birth:
- Aug 22, 1862
Date of death:
- Mar 25, 1918 (age 55 years)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (help·info); 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1906
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1975 (age 68 years)
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843 – September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt (which...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1843
Date of death:
- Sep 4, 1907 (age 64 years)
Erik Satie
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1866
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1925 (age 59 years)
Franz Schmidt
Franz Schmidt (December 22, 1874 – February 11, 1939) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist.
Schmidt was born in Pressburg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (this is now Bratislava, Slovakia). His earliest teacher was his mother, an...
Date of birth:
- Dec 22, 1874
Date of death:
- Feb 11, 1939 (age 64 years)
Gerard Hengeveld
Gerard Hengeveld (7 December 1910, Kampen - October 28, 2001, Bergen, North Holland) was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1910
Date of death:
- Oct 28, 2001 (age 90 years)
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar.
He wrote most of his vocal and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1898
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 1937 (age 38 years)
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Albéniz i Pascual (Spanish pronunciation: [iˈsak alˈβeniθ]) (May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.
Born in Camprodón, province of Girona, Albéniz was a child prodigy...
Date of birth:
- May 29, 1860
Date of death:
- May 18, 1909 (age 49 years)
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (pronounced [joːˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]) (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897), German composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1833
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1897 (age 63 years)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (pronounced /ˈluːdˌvɪɡ vɑːn ˈbeɪˌtoʊvən/ (U.S.) or /ˈlʊdˌvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪtˌhoʊvən/ (UK); German: [ˈluːt.vɪç fan ˈbeːt.hoːfən] ( listen); baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1770
Date of death:
- Mar 26, 1827 (age 56 years)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1756
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1791 1:00am (age 35 years)
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor' Fjodorovič Stravinskij) (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1882
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1971 (age 88 years)
Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (born 23 December 1918) is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance....
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1918 (age 91 years)
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (pronounced /ˈbɜrn.staɪn/, us dict: bûrn′·stīn; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1918
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1990 (age 72 years)
Billy Joel
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel; May 9, 1949) is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1949 (age 60 years)
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous and important Romantic composers of the 19th century.
Schumann had...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1810
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1856 (age 46 years)
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (German pronunciation: [fʁants ʃuːbɐ̯t] or fʁants ʃuːbɛ̯t; January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1797
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1828 (age 31 years)
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18-19 November 1786 – 4-5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
Weber's works, especially his operas Der...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1786
Date of death:
- Jun 5, 1826 (age 39 years)
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 7, 1875
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1937 (age 62 years)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃sɑ̃s]) (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, Samson and Delilah...
Date of birth:
- Oct 9, 1835
Date of death:
- Dec 16, 1921 (age 86 years)
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American nationalist composerof concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1900
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1990 (age 90 years)
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentinian concert pianist. Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career. Nevertheless she is widely recognized as one of the greatest...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1941 (age 68 years)
Muzio Clementi
Muzio Clementi (23 January 1752, Rome – 10 March 1832, Evesham, Worcestershire, England) was a celebrated Italian, classical composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. He is credited with being the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1752
Date of death:
- Mar 10, 1832 (age 80 years)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second of five sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was a crucial composer in the transition between the Baroque and Classical...
Date of birth:
- Mar 8, 1714
Date of death:
- Dec 14, 1788 (age 74 years)
William Murdoch
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. It is believed he Anglicised his name to Murdock when he moved to England.
Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1754
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 1839 (age 85 years)
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, violist and pianist.
Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1913
Date of death:
- Dec 4, 1976 (age 63 years)
Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the twentieth century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1932
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1982 (age 50 years)
Artur Schnabel
Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was an Austrian-born Jewish classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. He is one of the 20th...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1882
Date of death:
- Aug 15, 1951 (age 69 years)
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era. He is best known for the opera Carmen.
Bizet was born at 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne in the 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1838. He was registered...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1838
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1875 (age 36 years)
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1845
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1924 (age 79 years)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
The...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1809
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1847 (age 38 years)
Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1910
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1981 (age 70 years)
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Edward Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944, Stratford, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many movie scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with...
Date of birth:
- Mar 23, 1944 (age 65 years)
Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:
Henry Cowell...
Date of birth:
- Mar 11, 1897
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1965 (age 68 years)
Paul Wittgenstein
Paul Wittgenstein (November 5, 1887 – March 3, 1961) was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1887
Date of death:
- Mar 3, 1961 (age 73 years)
Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari, French composer born on February 5, 1929 in Paris - deceased on August 22, 2005 in Arezzo in Italy.
Luc Ferrari trained in music since a very young age and continued his composition and piano studies, until a case of tuberculosis in his...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1929
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 2005 (age 76 years)
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author of the surreal.
Brendel was born in Vízmberk, Czechoslovakia, now Loučná nad Desnou, Czech...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1931 (age 79 years)
Bedřich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana (pronounced [ˈbɛdr̝ɪx ˈsmɛtana] (help·info); March 2, 1824 – May 12, 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1824
Date of death:
- May 12, 1884 (age 60 years)
Mily Balakirev
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев, Milij Alekseevič Balakirev, [bɐ'lakʲɪrʲɪf]) (2 January 1837 [O.S. 21 December 1836] – 29 May [O.S. 16 May] 1910) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He is known today...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1837
Date of death:
- May 29, 1910 (age 73 years)
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (Russian: Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, Vladimir Samojlovič Gorovits; Ukrainian: Володимир Самійлович Горовиць, Volodymyr Samiylovich Horovyts) (October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian American classical...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1903
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1989 (age 86 years)
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French pronunciation: [fʀɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʀsɛl pulɛ̃k]; January 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber...
Date of birth:
- Jan 7, 1899
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1963 (age 64 years)
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950; name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records at the...
Date of birth:
- May 13, 1950 (age 59 years)
Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter (September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. One of the most famous conductors of the 20th century, he was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1876
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1962 (age 85 years)
Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антóн Григóрьевич Рубинштéйн) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great...
Date of birth:
- Nov 28, 1829
Date of death:
- Nov 20, 1894 (age 65 years)
John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Jaws, Star Wars, Superman,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1932 (age 77 years)
Marcel Dupré
Marcel Dupré (3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971), was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen (Normandy, France). Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1886
Date of death:
- May 30, 1971 (age 85 years)
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (Russian: Владимир Давидович Ашкенази, Vladimir Davidovič Aškenazi) (born July 6, 1937) is a Russian conductor and virtuoso pianist. He has been a citizen of Iceland, the home of his wife Þórunn, since 1972 and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1937 (age 72 years)
