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. For those who worked with other pianists as piano duos, see List of classical piano duos (performers). For a list of recorded classical pianists, see

List of classical pianists (recorded) This is a list of pianists of whom recordings survive who play (or played) classical music. For a more inclusive list not limited to recorded pianists, see also ''List of classical pianists'' (solo pianists) and ''List of classical piano duos (per ...

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* Behzod Abduraimov *

Ludwig Abeille Johann Christian Ludwig (Louis) Abeille (20 February 1761 in Bayreuth – 2 March 1838 in Stuttgart) was a German pianist, organist, conductor, music teacher and composer. Life His father was baronial valet and his mother was Christine Louise Ab ...

* Jacques Abram * Adolovni Acosta * Armenta Adams * Daniel Adni * Adrian Aeschbacher *

Valery Afanassiev Valery Afanassiev (russian: Валерий Павлович Афанасьев, ''Valerij Pavlovič Afanasiev''; born 8 September 1947) is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor. Life Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow. He studied piano at ...

Guido Agosti Guido Agosti (11 August 19012 June 1989) was an Italian pianist and piano teacher. Agosti was born in Forlì in 1901. He studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni, Bruno Mugellini and Filippo Ivaldi, earning his diploma at age 13. He studied counterp ...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard Pierre-Laurent Aimard (born 9 September 1957) is a French pianist. Biography Aimard was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio. In 1973, he was awarded the chamber music priz ...

Webster Aitken Webster Aitken (June 17, 1908 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada – May 11, 1981 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American pianist. He studied piano in Europe with Artur Schnabel and Emil von Sauer. In 1929, he made his professional debut in ...

Nelly Akopian-Tamarina Nelly Akopian-Tamarina (born in Moscow) is a Russian pianist. Akopian-Tamarina had performed Haydn concertos publicly with orchestras by age 9. She studied with Anaida Sumbatyan at the Moscow Central Music School. At the Moscow Conservatory she w ...

* Giuseppe Albanese *

Isaac Albéniz Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...

* Pedro Albéniz * Eugen d'Albert *

Charlie Albright Charlie Albright ( ko, 찰리 박 올브라이트) is an American pianist, composer, and improviser. He is an official Steinway Artist, 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant Recipient, 2010 Gilmore Young Artist (2010) and former Young Concert Artist. ...

* Dmitri Alexeev *

Charles-Valentin Alkan Charles-Valentin Alkan (; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French Jewish composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Li ...

* Victor Aller * Ilse von Alpenheim * Louis Demetrius Alvanis * Stefan Ammer

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* Géza Anda * Piotr Anderszewski * Leif Ove Andsnes *

Nicholas Angelich Nicholas Michael Angelich (December 14, 1970 – April 18, 2022) was an American pianist. He was noted for performing internationally with ensembles from Europe and North America. Early life Angelich was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 1 ...

* Agustin Anievas *

Eteri Andjaparidze Eteri Andjaparidze (born September 15, 1956) is a Georgian / American pianist and music professor. Early life Born on September 15, 1956, to a family of musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Andjaparidze received her first piano lessons ...

* Charles-François Angelet *

Conrad Ansorge Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge (15 October 1862 – 13 February 1930) was a German pianist, teacher and composer. He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in ...

* Jean-François Antonioli * Mireya Arboleda *

Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky (russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский; – ) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Biography Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving ...

* Martha Argerich *

Kit Armstrong Kit Armstrong ( zh, c=周善祥, p=Zhōu Shànxiáng, born March 5, 1992) is an American classical pianist, composer, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage. Education Armstrong was born in Los Angeles into a non-musical famil ...

* Yvonne Arnaud *

Claudio Arrau Claudio Arrau León (; February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and B ...

* Lydia Artymiw *

Şahan Arzruni Şahan Arzruni ( hy, Շահան Արծրունի; born 8 June 1943) is an Armenian classical pianist, ethnomusicologist, lecturer, composer, writer and producer, residing in New York City. Early life and education Arzruni (also transliterated ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He ...

Stefan Askenase Stefan Askenase (10 July 189618 October 1985) was a Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue. Biography Askenase was born in Lviv, then known as Lemberg, into a Jewish family. At the age of five he began playing the piano with his mothe ...

* Lola Astanova * Ebba d'Aubert * Lera Auerbach *

Adele aus der Ohe Adele (Adelheit Johanne Auguste Hermine) aus der Ohe (11 February 18618 December 1937) was a German concert pianist and composer.The church baptismal records from Hannover provide the correct date of February 11, 1861. Her compositions, including t ...

Myriam Avalos Myriam Avalos (Avalos-Teie) (born Lima, Peru) is a classical pianist. Life She began to study the piano at age two. She gave her first public performance at age three, and shortly after that was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music in ...

Yulianna Avdeeva Yulianna Andreevna Avdeeva (russian: Юлиа́нна Андре́евна Авде́ева; born 3 July 1985) is a Russian concert classical pianist who has performed and recorded internationally. Life and career Avdeeva was born in Moscow. Sh ...

* Valda Aveling * Emanuel Ax *

Nadia Azzi Nadia Azzi (born August 11, 1998 in Dunedin, Florida) is an American classical pianist of Lebanese-Japanese origin. Fluent in Japanese and English, she began playing piano at age four and a half and has won many awards since then. She currently ...

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* Sergei Babayan *

Stanley Babin Stanley Babin (1932-2010) was a composer and pianist. Life Babin was born in 1932 to Lydia and David Babin, a rabbi. He had four siblings. The family emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1933 where he studied music with Frank Pelleg and made his official de ...

Victor Babin Vronsky & Babin were regarded by many as one of the foremost duo-piano teams of the twentieth century. Vitya Vronsky (''Viktoria Mikhailovna Vronskaya'', 22 August 190928 June 1992) was born in the Crimean city of Yevpatoria, Russia. Victor Babin ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...

Gina Bachauer Gina Bachauer (Greek: Τζίνα Μπαχάουερ; May 21, 1910, AthensAugust 22, 1976, Athens), was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe. Interested in piano at a young age, Bachauer graduated from ...

Walter Bache Walter Bache (; 19 June 184226 March 1888) was an English pianist and conductor noted for his championing the music of Franz Liszt and other music of the New German School in England. He studied privately with Liszt in Italy from 1863 to 1865, ...

* Agathe Backer-Grøndahl *

Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl (15 October 188521 June 1959) was a Norwegian pianist, composer and music teacher. Biography Backer-Grøndahl was born in Christiania (later Oslo) in 1885, the son of the conductor and singing teacher Olaus Andreas Grøn ...

Wilhelm Backhaus Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (26 March 1884 – 5 July 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much ...

* Farhad Badalbeyli * Paul Badura-Skoda * Ryszard Bakst *

Mily Balakirev Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев,BGN/PCGN transliteration of Russian: Miliy Alekseyevich Balakirev; ALA-LC system: ''Miliĭ Alekseevich Balakirev''; ISO 9 system: ''Milij Alekseevič Balakir ...

* Dalton Baldwin * Ernő Balogh *

Artur Balsam Artur Balsam (February 8, 1906 – September 1, 1994) was a Polish-born American classical pianist and pedagogue. Biography He was born in Warsaw, Poland, and studied in Łódź, making his debut there at the age of 12 then enrolled at the Berlin ...

Joseph Banowetz Joseph Murray Banowetz (December 5, 1934 – July 3, 2022) was an American pianist, pedagogue, author, and editor, who taught at the University of North Texas. Banowetz was an expert on the music of the Russian romantic composer Anton Rubinstein ...

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Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (; in he, דניאל בארנבוים, born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. He has been since 1992 General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeist ...

* Simon Barere * Rami Bar-Niv * David Bar-Illan * Trevor Barnard * Nerine Barrett * Heinrich Barth *

Martin James Bartlett Martin James Bartlett (born 1996) is an English classical pianist who has twice reached the keyboard finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year contest, winning the competition in 2014. Education From the year 2010, Bartlett was educated at ...

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hu ...

* Marmaduke Barton * Dmitri Bashkirov * Leon Bates * Harold Bauer * Paul Baumgartner

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Betty Humby Beecham Betty Humby Beecham, Lady Beecham (8 April 1908 – 2 September 1958) was a British pianist. She married English conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham in February 1943. Biography Betty Humby was the daughter of Daniel Morgan Humby, a denti ...

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

* Victor Bendix *

William Sterndale Bennett Sir William Sterndale Bennett (13 April 18161 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he remained for ten years. B ...

* Nelly Ben-Or * Boris Berezovsky *

Martin Berkofsky Martin Berkofsky (9 April 1943 – 30 December 2013) was an American classical pianist, known primarily for his interpretations of music by Franz Liszt and Alan Hovhaness. Early career and activities Born in Washington, D.C., of Belarusian ancest ...

* Ludmila Berlinskaya *

Bart Berman Bart Berman ( he, ברט ברמן; born 29 December 1938) is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th-century music. Career Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at a predecessor of ...

* Boris Berman *

Lazar Berman Lazar Naumovich Berman (russian: Ла́зарь Нау́мович Бе́рман, ''Lazarʹ Naumovič Berman''; February 26, 1930February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a ...

* Yara Bernette *

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...

Henri Bertini Henri Jérôme Bertini (28 October 1798 – 30 September 1876) was a French classical composer and pianist. He was born into a family of musicians and attracted the attention of François-Joseph Fétis when he toured Europe as a child prodigy ...

* Raffi Besalyan * Stephen Beus

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* Philippe Bianconi *

Fabio Bidini Fabio Bidini (born in Arezzo on 11 June 1968) is an Italian pianist. He was a finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth in 1993. He teaches at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where he holds a piano chair endowed b ...

* Malcolm Bilson * Malcolm Binns *

İdil Biret İdil Biret (born 21 November 1941) is a Turkish concert pianist. Education Biret began her lessons at the age of five with , who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament enacted a special ...

* Tessa Birnie * Hans Bischoff *

Jonathan Biss Jonathan Biss (born September 18, 1980) is an American pianist, teacher, and writer based in Philadelphia. He is the co-artistic director (with Mitsuko Uchida) of the Marlboro Music Festival. Early life and education Biss was born into a fam ...

Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', whi ...

William Black William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

Rafał Blechacz Rafał Blechacz (; born 30 June 1985) is a Polish classical pianist who rose to fame after decisively winning the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2005. Biography Blechacz began piano lessons at the age of five, and enrolled in the ...

* Aline Reese Blondner *

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (July 16, 1863 – August 20, 1927) was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist. Biography Zeisler was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, to Jewish parents. She emigrated to the United States ...

* Felix Blumenfeld *

Felicja Blumental Felicja Blumental (28 December 1908 – 31 December 1991) was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist ...

* Daniel Blumenthal

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Mary Louise Boehm Mary Louise Boehm (July 25, 1924 – November 29, 2002) was an American pianist and painter. A descendant of Joseph Boehm, a piano-maker active in Vienna during the early 19th century, Mary Louise Boehm was born in Sumner, Iowa, and soon proved ...

* Gergely Bogányi *

Jorge Bolet Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American virtuoso pianist and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt. Life Bolet was born in Havan ...

Stefano Bollani Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta, Richard Galliano ...

* Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène *

Victor Borge Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge ( ), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in the North America and Europe. His ...

* Sergei Bortkiewicz *

Leonard Borwick Leonard Borwick (26 February 1868 – 15 September 1925) was an English concert pianist especially associated with the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Early training and debuts Born in Walthamstow, Essex, of a Staffordshire fam ...

* Coenraad V. Bos * Geir Botnen *

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a ...

Hendrik Bouman Hendrik "Henk" Bouman (born 29 September 1951, in Dordrecht)David Cummings, International Who's Who In Music And Musicians' Directory 1994/5, page 92 is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque ...

* Andreas Boyde * Emma Boynet

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* Vera Bradford *

Alexander Braginsky Alexander Iosifovich Braginsky (russian: Александр Иосифович Брагинский, ''Aleksandr Iosifovič Braginskij''; May 29, 1944) is a Russian-born pianist and pedagogue, currently living in the United States. Life and car ...

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

Alexander Brailowsky Alexander Brailowsky (16 February 1896 – 25 April 1976) was a Russian-born French pianist who specialised in the works of Frédéric Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars. Early life Brailowsky was bor ...

* Frank Braley *

Natan Brand Natan Brand (1944–1990) was an Israeli classical pianist. Biography Brand was the son of a doctor, Aron Brand, and his wife, Mala, Polish Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine days before the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. The family set ...

Louis Brassin Louis Brassin (24 June 184017 May 1884) was a Belgian pianist, composer and music educator. He is best known now for his piano transcription of the ''Magic Fire Music'' from Wagner's ''Die Walküre''. Career Louis Brassin was born in Aix-la-Cha ...

Jens Harald Bratlie Jens Harald Bratlie (born 22 November 1948) is a Norwegian pianist. He has studied in Oslo, Paris and London, and made his debut at the age of 17 in Oslo in 1965. Bratlie won first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1967, The Rieflingpr ...

Ronald Brautigam Ronald Brautigam (born 1954) is a Dutch concert pianist, best known for his performances of Beethoven's piano works on the fortepiano. Born in Amsterdam, Brautigam studied there with Jan Wijn (1971-79), then he left to study in London with John ...

* Alice Verne-Bredt * Alfred Brendel *

Jim Brickman James Merrill Brickman (born November 20, 1961) is an American pop songwriter, pianist and radio host. Brickman has earned two Grammy nominations for his albums ''Peace'' (2003) for Best Instrumental, and ''Faith'' (2009) for Best New Age Album. ...

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...

* Kenny Broberg * Yefim Bronfman * Edwin Orion Brownell *

John Browning John Moses Browning (January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926) was an American firearm designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms many of which are still in use around the world. He m ...

Bruce Brubaker Bruce Brubaker is a musician, artist, concert pianist, and writer from the United States. Concepts Brubaker's work uses and combines Western classical music with postmodern artistic, literary, theatrical, and philosophical ideas. He is associate ...

* Ignaz Brüll * Theo Bruins * David Brunell

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* Rudolf Buchbinder * Sara Davis Buechner *

Richard Buhlig Richard Moritz Buhlig (December 21, 1880 – January 30, 1952) was an American pianist. Buhlig was born in Chicago to a German immigrant father from Saxony, the baker Moritz Buhlig, and his wife Louise. He received early lessons from August Hy ...

* Hans von Bülow *

Josef Bulva Josef Bulva (9 January 1943 – 12 August 2020) was a Czech pianist. Life Bulva was born in Brno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic. began his training aged nine at a music school in Napajedla, and performed his fir ...

* Khatia Buniatishvili * Stanislav Bunin *

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name '' Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

* Geoffrey Burleson *

Winifred Burston Winifred Charlotte Hillier Crosse Burston (3 April 1889 – 24 June 1976) was an Australian pianist and teacher. She was born near Caboolture, Queensland, of English-born parents, raised in Brisbane, and taught by her mother, an accomplished pia ...

* Ammiel Bushakevitz *

Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...

* Winifred Byrd

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* Sofia Cabruja *

Sarah Cahill Sarah Cahill may refer to: * Sarah Cahill (model) (born 1978), American model, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder * Sarah Cahill (pianist) (born 1960), American pianist {{hndis, Cahill, Sarah ...

Michele Campanella Michele Campanella (born 5 June 1947) is an Italian pianist who specialises in the music of Franz Liszt, and is also a conductor. Campanella was born in Naples in 1947. He won the Alfredo Casella Prize at age 19, after studying with Vincenz ...

Rose Cannabich Rose Cannabich (1764–1839) was a German classical pianist. Mozart dedicated a piano sonata to her when he was her teacher in Mannheim, where her father led the well-known orchestra. History Rosina Theresia Petronella Cannabich was born in ...

* Bruno Canino * John Carmichael * Roberto Carnevale * Teresa Carreño * Gaby Casadesus *

Jean Casadesus Jean Claude Michel Casadesus (17 July 1927 – 20 January 1972) was a French classical pianist. He was the son of the renowned pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, and grandnephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus. Jean Casadesus was born ...

Robert Casadesus Robert Marcel Casadesus (7 April 1899 – 19 September 1972) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a distinguished musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, ...

Gianluca Cascioli Gianluca Cascioli (born 17 July 1979 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994, Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli Inte ...

Ricardo Castro Ricardo Castro Herrera (Rafael de la Santísima Trinidad Castro Herrera) (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz. Life Castro was bo ...

Boris Cepeda Boris Cepeda (born September 26, 1974, in Quito) is a German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat. Biography Boris Cepeda got his first piano lessons at four. He appeared in public for the first time in Ecuadorian television at five. Since then ...

* Marcelo Moraes Caetano

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Bertrand Chamayou Bertrand Chamayou (born 23 March 1981) is a French pianist. Career Born in Toulouse, Chamayou studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse under the tutelage of Claudine Willoth, making his first forays into contemporary music and composition. At th ...

Cécile Chaminade Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a ...

Angelin Chang Angelin Chang (張安麟, Korean: 장 安 린) is a Grammy award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber music ...

* Fenia Chang * Nellie Chaplin *

Abram Chasins Abram Chasins (August 17, 1903 – June 21, 1987) was an American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author. Born in Manhattan, New York, he attended the Ethical Culture school ...

* Chen Sa *

Angela Cheng Angela Cheng ( zh, 鄭美蓮; born September 9, 1959) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian classical pianist. She has performed internationally as a recitalist and as a guest soloist with orchestras. Cheng is a professor of piano at the Oberlin Conserv ...

* Cheng Wai * Shura Cherkassky * Milana Chernyavska * Rachel Cheung *

Jan Chiapusso Jan Joseph Chiapusso (2 February 189021 August 1969) was a Dutch, later American, classical pianist and teacher. He was a student of Frederic Lamond and Raoul Pugno, and he was the teacher of Rosalyn Tureck, among others. Biography Jan Joseph Ch ...

* Joan Chissell * Gian Paolo Chiti *

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

* Daniel Chorzempa *

Winifred Christie Winifred Christie (26 February 1882 – 8 February 1965) was a British pianist and composer best known as an advocate of the Moór-Duplex piano. She was born in Stirling, Scotland. The Moór-Duplex piano Winifred Christie spent a significan ...

* Alton Chung Ming Chan * Marcel Ciampi * Dino Ciani * Aldo Ciccolini *

Tamara Anna Cislowska Tamara-Anna Cislowska is an Australian concert pianist. She has performed across many countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, South America, Italy, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland, and has played w ...

* Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady * Muzio Clementi * Van Cliburn * France Clidat

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* Theodor Coccius * Julian Cochran * Arnaldo Cohen *

Harriet Cohen Harriet(t) may refer to: * Harriet (name), a female name ''(includes list of people with the name)'' Places *Harriet, Queensland, rural locality in Australia * Harriet, Arkansas, unincorporated community in the United States * Harriett, Texas, ...

* Naida Cole * Edgar Coleman * Jean-Philippe Collard * Stephen Colletti *

Graziella Concas Graziella Concas (born 7 January 1970) is an Italian pianist and composer. Biography and career She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘V ...

* Claudio Constantini * Sylvia Constantinidis * John Contiguglia * Richard Contiguglia *

Stephen Coombs Stephen Coombs (born Birkenhead, July 11, 1960) is a British pianist who works with orchestras and conductors, as well as performing as a solo artist. (1) Earlier life Coombs first became prominent in music at the age of thirteen, when he won sec ...

Gary Cooper Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, a ...

Imogen Cooper Dame Imogen Cooper, (born 28 August 1949) is an English pianist. Biography Cooper was born in North London, daughter of the musicologist Martin du Pré Cooper and Mary Stewart, artist. She grew up surrounded by music through her parents and ...

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Com ...

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Alfred Cortot Alfred Denis Cortot (; 26 September 187715 June 1962) was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for his poetic ...

Romola Costantino Romola Helen Louise Costantino, Mrs Enyi (14 September 1930November 1988) was a noted Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic. Biography Costantino was the daughter of Napoleone Costantin ...

Henry Cowell Henry Dixon Cowell (; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher and teacher. Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012)"Henry Cowell: A Life Stranger Than Fiction" ''The Juilliard Journal''. Retrieved 19 June 202 ...

* Johann Baptist Cramer * Patrick Crommelynck * Tan Crone * Jill Crossland * Lamar Crowson * Adlan Cruz *

José Cubiles José Antonio Cubiles Ramos (15 May 1894 5 April 1971) was a noted Spanish pianist, conductor and teacher. Biography Cubiles was born in Cádiz in 1894. His pianistic gifts were already apparent by the age of five. He first studied music theory ...

* Richard Cudmore * Sir Clifford Curzon * Halina Czerny-Stefańska *

Carl Czerny Carl Czerny (; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and ...

György Cziffra Christian Georges Cziffra (; born Cziffra Krisztián György; 5 November 192115 January 1994) was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among ...

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Edward Dannreuther Edward George Dannreuther (4 November 1844, Strasbourg – 12 February 1905, Hastings) was a German pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a pi ...

* Jeanne-Marie Darré *

Fanny Davies Fanny Davies (27 June 1861 - 1 September 1934) was a British pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin. In England ...

Bella Davidovich Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich (Бэлла Миха́йловна Давидо́вич; born July 16, 1928) is a Soviet-born American pianist. Biography Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, into a Jewish family of musicians and began studyi ...

Ivan Davis Ivan Roy Davis, Jr. (February 4, 1932 – March 12, 2018) was an American classical pianist and longstanding member of the faculty at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. Early life Davis was born in Electra, Texas. He received his ...

Karin Dayas Karin Elin Nadja Dayas (13 May 1892, Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland — 4 March 1971, Hamilton, Ohio) was an American pianist and music educator. She was a daughter of William Dayas and Margarethe Dayas, born Margaret Vocke, both pupils of Franz ...

* William Dayas *

Jozef De Beenhouwer Jozef De Beenhouwer (born March 26, 1948 in Brasschaat, Belgium) is a Belgian pianist, music teacher and musicologist. Biography His first teacher, with whom he started at the age of five, was his paternal grandfather. Even as a child and adol ...

Claude Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most infl ...

Sylviane Deferne Sylviane Deferne (born 1965 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss pianist and musician. Early musical education Deferne started studying the piano in the Geneva Conservatory of Music of her hometown of Geneva, and she soon won first prize of vi ...

Cor de Groot Cor de Groot (July 7, 1914May 26, 1993) was a Dutch pianist and composer. He was born in Amsterdam. He studied piano with Egbert Veen and Ulferts Schults, and composition and conducting under Sem Dresden. In 1932 he graduated with highest hon ...

* Steven De Groote *

Élie-Miriam Delaborde Élie-Miriam Delaborde (born Eraïm-Miriam Delaborde; 7 February 18399 December 1913) was a French virtuoso pianist and composer. He was also renowned as a player of the pedal piano. Life His birth was registered under the name of his mother L ...

* Eduardo Delgado * Adelina de Lara * Jörg Demus * Jeremy Denk * Alicia de Larrocha * Vladimir de Pachmann * Nikolai Demidenko * William Denis Browne

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Anthony di Bonaventura Anthony di Bonaventura (November 12, 1929 – November 12, 2012) was an American pianist and Professor of Music at Boston University's College of Fine Arts for 40 years. He was the director of a Piano Institute at Colby College Piano Institu ...

Misha Dichter Misha Dichter (born September 27, 1945) is an American pianist. Biography Misha Dichter was born in Shanghai to Polish-Jewish parents who fled during WWII. He moved with his family to Los Angeles, California, at the age of two and began studying p ...

* Louis Diémer * Simone Dinnerstein *

Paul Doguereau Paul René Doguereau (September 8, 1908 – March 3, 2000) was a French pianist and piano teacher. He spent most of his career in Boston, United States, where he was a well-respected cultural figure.Richard Dyer, 10-Mar-2000, ''The Boston Globe'' ...

* Ernő Dohnányi * Peter Donohoe * Ania Dorfmann * Barry Douglas * Marylène Dosse *

Alexander Dreyschock Alexander Dreyschock (15 October 1818 – 1 April 1869) was a Czech pianist and composer. Born in Žáky in Bohemia, his musical talents were first noticed at age of eight, and at age fifteen he travelled to Prague to study piano and compositio ...

* Danny Driver *

Zbigniew Drzewiecki Zbigniew Drzewiecki (; 8 April 189011 April 1971) was a Polish pianist who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. He was especially associated with the interpretation of Frédéric Chopin's works. His pupils include several famous pianist ...

* Jean Dubé * Florence Kirsch Du Brul *

François-René Duchâble François-René Duchâble (born 22 April 1952, in Paris) is a French pianist. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and at the age of 13 won the institution's first prize in piano. Three years later, he placed 11th at the Queen Elisabeth Mu ...

* Jan Ladislav Dussek

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* Severin von Eckardstein * Bracha Eden * Richard Egarr * Pavel Egorov *

Youri Egorov Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov (russian: Юрий Александрович Егоров; 28 May 1954 – 16 April 1988) was a Soviet and Monegasque classical pianist. Early years Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conser ...

* Violetta Egorova * Severin Eisenberger * Detlev Eisinger *

Abdel Rahman El Bacha Abdel Rahman El Bacha ( ar, عبد الرحمن الباشا, born October 23, 1958) is a Lebanese pianist and composer. His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert ...

* Dror Elimelech

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Michael Endres Michael Endres (born 1961) is a German pianist. He was professor for piano from 1993 to 2004 at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne, until 2009 at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin—since autumn 2009 at the University of Canterbury in ...

* Per Enflo * Karl Engel * Philippe Entremont * Julius Epstein * Tzvi Erez * Christoph Eschenbach * Carolina Estrada * Morton Estrin * Róża Etkin-Moszkowska * Lindley Evans

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* Mikhaïl Faerman *

Joel Fan Joel Fan (b. United States, July 29, 1969) is an American pianist and Steinway Artist "who has won praise for his technical expertise, lyrical playing, and outstanding interpretation". The New York Times has described Joel Fan as an "impressive p ...

Edith Farnadi Edith Farnadi (25 September 1921 – 12 or 14 December 1973) was a Hungarian pianist. She was born in Budapest and began her studies at the age of 7 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. She studied with Professor Arnold Székely (also a teacher ...

Richard Farrell Richard Farrell (30 December 1926 – 27 May 1958) was a New Zealand classical pianist. Musical career Early life Thomas Richard Farrell was born in Auckland in 1926 to Thomas and Ella Farrell, and spent most of his young years in Wellingto ...

* Iain Farrington * Anna Fedorova * José Feghali * Samuil Feinberg * Till Fellner * Vladimir Feltsman *

Albert Ferber Albert Ferber (29 March 191111 January 1987) was a Swiss pianist who had an international performing career that spanned four decades and took him across the world. Training Albert Ferber was a classical pianist and teacher. He was born in Lucer ...

* Arthur Ferrante *

Jacques Février Jacques Février (26 July 1900 – 2 September 1979) was a French pianist and teacher. Life and career Jacques Février was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of the composer Henry Février. He studied with Édouard Risler and Marguerite Lo ...

Janina Fialkowska Janina Fialkowska, (born May 7, 1951) is a Canadian classical pianist. A specialist of the Classic and Romantic repertoires, for more than thirty years she has appeared regularly with professional orchestras around the world, often performing the ...

* John Field * James Henry Fields * Margaret Fingerhut *

Sergio Fiorentino Sergio Fiorentino (22 December 1927 – 22 August 1998) was a 20th-century Italian classical pianist whose sporadic performing career spanned five decades. There is quite a bit of footage of his playing that survives, in addition to audio recor ...

Rudolf Firkušný Rudolf Firkušný (; 11 February 191219 July 1994) was a Moravian-born, Moravian-American classical pianist. Life Born in Moravian town Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and ...

* Annie Fischer * Edith Fischer * Caroline Fischer * Edwin Fischer * Norma Fisher * Philip Edward Fisher * Graham Fitch * Leon Fleisher * Yakov Flier *

Ingrid Fliter Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro ...

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* Andor Földes * Grace Fong * Julian Fontana *

Bengt Forsberg Bengt Forsberg (born 1952) is a Swedish concert pianist most famous for his numerous collaborations with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. He participated in her project to record songs written in the concentration camp of Terezín. Forsberg ...

* W. O. Forsyth *

Fou Ts'ong Fou Ts'ong (; 10 March 1934 – 28 December 2020) was a Chinese-born British pianist who was the first pianist of his national origin to achieve international recognition. He came to prominence after winning third prize and the Polish Radio Prize ...

* Felix Fox *

Malcolm Frager Malcolm Frager (January 15, 1935June 20, 1991) was an American piano virtuoso and recording artist. Life and career Frager was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg in New York City from 1949 until Friedberg's death in 1955. ...

* Homero Francesch *

Samson François Samson Pascal François (18 May 192422 October 1970) was a French pianist and composer. Biography François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, for ...

* Massimiliano Frani *

Claude Frank Claude Frank (born Claus Johannes Frank; December 24, 1925 – December 27, 2014) was a German-born American pianist. Biography Of Jewish ancestry, Frank was born in Nuremberg, Germany. His father emigrated to Brussels after the advent of the ...

* Peter Frankl * Justus Frantz * David Fray * Nelson Freire * Etelka Freund *

Carl Friedberg Carl Rudolf Hermann Friedberg (September 18, 1872 in Bingen am Rhein, Bingen, German Empire, Germany – September 9, 1955 in Meran, Italy) was a German pianist and teacher of Jewish origin. Biography He was son of Eduard Friedberg (?–1937) a ...

Arthur Friedheim Arthur Friedheim (russian: Артур Фридхайм, 14/26 October 1859 – 19 October 1932) was a Russian-born concert pianist and composer who was one of Franz Liszt's foremost pupils. One of Friedheim's students was Rildia Bee O'Bryan C ...

* Ignaz Friedman *

Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting (祥子・古畑=ケルスティング; born August 12, 1965) is a Japanese concert pianist. Biography Born in Yokohama, Japan, Furuhata-Kersting started piano lessons at the age of three. After winning the New Piani ...

Margarita Fyodorova Margarita Alekseevna Fyodorova - Маргарита Алексеевна Фёдорова (4 November 1927 - 14 August 2016) was a Soviet Russian pianist, People's Artist of Russia. She won silver in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competi ...

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* Ossip Gabrilowitsch * Henriette Gaertner * Neil Galanter *

Rudolph Ganz Rudolph Ganz (24 February 1877 – 2 August 1972) was a Swiss-born American pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator. Career Early career as a pianist and conductor Born in Zurich, Ganz studied cello with Friedrich Hegar and piano w ...

* Umi Garrett * Mark Gasser * Ivana Gavrić *

Andrei Gavrilov Andrei Gavrilov (in Russian Андрей Гаврилов; born September 21, 1955) is a Swiss pianist of Russian background. Early life and music career Andrei Gavrilov was born into a family of artists in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Ga ...

* Alexander Gavrylyuk * Heinrich Gebhard * Kemal Gekić * Bruno Leonardo Gelber * Ingrid Fuzjko V. Georgii-Hemming *

Kirill Gerstein Kirill Gerstein (russian: Кирилл Герштейн) (born 23 October 1979) is a Russian-American concert pianist. He is the sixth recipient of the Gilmore Artist Award. Born in the former Soviet Union, Gerstein is an American citizen based in ...

* Carmen Geutjes *

Alexander Ghindin Alexander Sheftelyevich Ghindin (russian: Александр Шефтельевич Гиндин; born 17 April 1977, Moscow) is a Russian pianist. He won first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition The Cleveland International Pia ...

* Jack Gibbons *

Walter Gieseking Walter Wilhelm Gieseking (5 November 1895 – 26 October 1956) was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made int ...

* Emil Gilels *

Rhondda Gillespie Rhondda Gillespie (4 August 194130 December 2010) was an Australian-born classical pianist who resided primarily in the United Kingdom and Barbados. She was a specialist in the music of Franz Liszt and brought to light many of his lesser-known wor ...

* Boris Giltburg *

Jakob Gimpel Jakob Gimpel (April 16, 1906March 12, 1989) was a Polish concert pianist and educator. Jakob Gimpel was born in Lwów (then in Polish Galicia, part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and now Lviv, Ukraine). Gimpel's younger brother, Bronislav Gimpel ...

* Pavel Gintov * Grigory Ginzburg * Katrine Gislinge * Frank Glazer * Marija Gluvakov

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* Arabella Goddard *

Leopold Godowsky Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. (13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a Lithuanian-born American virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher. He was one of the most highly regarded performers of his time, known for his theories concernin ...

* Mona Golabek * Edward Gold * Alexander Goldenweiser * Rubin Goldmark *

Robert Goldsand Robert Goldsand (March 17, 1911September 16, 1991) was an Austrian-United States, American classical pianist. Life Goldsand was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1911, the son of artisan Jakob Goldsand and his wife Helene. He began musical s ...

* Stefano Golinelli * Alexis Golovin * David Golub *

Richard Goode Richard Goode (born June 1, 1943) is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven. Early life Goode was born in the East Bronx, New York. He studied piano with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Fra ...

* Isador Goodman * Judith Gordon * Daniel Gortler *

Ralf Gothóni Ralf Georg Nils Gothóni (born 2 May 1946, Rauma) is a Finnish-German pianist and conductor. He is also active as a chamber musician, professor, composer, and author. Born in Rauma, Finland he made his orchestra debut at age 15. Besides his worl ...

Louis Moreau Gottschalk Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works. He spent most of his working career outside the United States. Life and c ...

Glenn Gould Glenn Herbert Gould (; né Gold; September 25, 1932October 4, 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann ...

* Anna Gourari

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* Enrique Graf * Gary Graffman * Alasdair Graham *

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...

Enrique Granados Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados y Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enric Granados in Catalan or Enrique Granados in Spanish, was a composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain. ...

* Jeffrey Grice *

Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the foremost Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of ...

* Hélène Grimaud *

Maria Grinberg Maria Grinberg ( Russian: Mария Израилевна Гринберг, Marija Israilevna Grinberg; September 6, 1908 – July 14, 1978) was a Russian pianist. She was born in Odessa, Russian Empire. Her father was a Hebrew scholar and her mot ...

* Bonnie Gritton * Samuel Grodin * Andreas Groethuysen *

Benjamin Grosvenor Benjamin Grosvenor (born 8 July 1992) is a British classical pianist. Education Grosvenor was born and brought up in Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He is the youngest of five brothers. His father is an English and Drama teacher, an ...

* Shengying Gu * Alberto Guerrero * Friedrich Gulda *

Youra Guller Youra Guller (14 May 1895 – 31 December 1980) was a French classical pianist. Biography Guller was born in Marseille as Rose-Georgette Guller, of Russian-Romanian heritage. She began her studies at the age of five. She performed in recitals and ...

* Horacio Gutiérrez * László Gyimesi

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Monique Haas Monique Haas (20 October 1909 – 9 June 1987) was a French pianist. Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy, taking a ''Premier Prix'' in 1927. She went on to study with Rudolf Serkin and R ...

Werner Haas Werner Haas (; 30 May 1927 – 13 November 1956) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. He became Germany's first motorcycle world champion when he won the 1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist ...

* Ingrid Haebler *

Andreas Haefliger Andreas Haefliger (born September 11, 1962) is a German-born Swiss pianist. Early life and education Born in Berlin on September 11, 1962, Haefliger is the youngest son of famed tenor Ernst Haefliger and interior designer and architect Anna Gol ...

* Michael Habermann *

Reynaldo Hahn Reynaldo Hahn (; 9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – ''mélodies'' – of which he wrote more than 100. Hahn was born in Caracas b ...

* Sir Charles Hallé *

Adolph Hallis Adolph Hallis (4 July 1896 – 1987) was a South African pianist, composer and teacher. Life Hallis was born in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony and travelled to England in his twenties, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Music; his teachers ...

Mark Hambourg Mark Hambourg (russian: Марк Михайлович Гамбург, 1 June 1879 – 26 August 1960) was a Russian British concert pianist. Life Mark Hambourg was the eldest son of the pianist Michael Hambourg (1855–1916), a pupil o ...

Leonid Hambro Leonid Hambro (June 26, 1920 – October 23, 2006) was an American concert pianist and composer. Life Hambro was born in Chicago, the son of immigrant Lithuanian Jews; his father was a pianist accompanying silent films. He studied at the Jui ...

* Marc-André Hamelin * Ambre Hammond * Adam Harasiewicz * Frits Hartvigson * Michael Kieran Harvey * Clara Haskil * Joyce Hatto * Walter Hautzig *

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have le ...

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* Inna Heifetz *

Claude Helffer Claude Helffer (18 June 1922 – 27 October 2004) was a French pianist. Early life Helffer was born in Paris, and began piano lessons at the age of five and from the age of ten until the outbreak of World War II he studied with Robert Casa ...

David Helfgott David Helfgott (born 19 May 1947) is an Australian concert pianist whose life inspired the Academy Award-winning film ''Shine'', in which he was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor and Alex Rafalowicz. Biography Early life Helfgott ...

Stephen Heller Stephen Heller (15 May 1813 – 14 January 1888) was a Hungarian pianist, teacher, and composer whose career spanned the period from Schumann to Bizet. Heller was an influence for later Romantic composers. He outlived his reputation, and was ...

* Gerard Hengeveld * Dennis Hennig *

Adolf von Henselt Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 or 12 May 181410 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. Life Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Josephe v ...

Henri Herz Henri Herz (6 January 1803 – 5 January 1888) was a virtuoso pianist, composer and piano manufacturer, Austrian by birth and French by nationality and domicile. He was a professor in the Paris Conservatoire for more than thirty years. Among his m ...

* Dame Myra Hess *

Barbara Hesse-Bukowska Barbara Stella Hesse-Bukowska (8 February 1930 – 9 December 2013) was a Polish pianist. Her family had a long-standing musical history, as her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother was a pianist and teacher, and her grandfather ...

Angela Hewitt Angela Hewitt, (born July 26, 1958) is a Canadian classical pianist. She is best known for her Bach interpretations. Career Hewitt was born in Ottawa, Ontario, daughter of the Yorkshire-born Godfrey Hewitt (thus she also has British nationality ...

* Peter Hill * Eric Himy

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Rex Hobcroft Rex Hobcroft AM (12 May 192523 September 2013) was an Australian pianist, conductor, composer, teacher, competition juror and music administrator. He was the first Australian pianist to play the complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas in pub ...

* Ian Hobson *

Josef Hofmann Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor. Biography Josef Hofmann was born in Podgórze (a district of Kraków), in Au ...

* Margarita Höhenrieder * Otakar Hollmann *

Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz; yi, וולאַדימיר סאַמוילאָוויטש האָראָוויץ, group=n (November 5, 1989)Schonberg, 1992 was a Russian-born American classical pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of al ...

* Mieczysław Horszowski * Andrej Hoteev *

Stephen Hough Sir Stephen Andrew Gill Hough (; born 22 November 1961) is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality (his father was born in Australia in 1926). Biography Houg ...

Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American- Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) a ...

Leslie Howard Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer.Obituary ''Variety'', 9 June 1943. He wrote many stories and articles for ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''Vanity Fair'' and was one o ...

* Philip Howard *

Daniel Hsu Daniel Hsu (born June 27, 1997) is an American classical pianist. He won the bronze medal, the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work, and the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music ...

* Ching-Yun Hu * Yvonne Hubert *

Johann Nepomuk Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Mozart, Salieri and Clementi. He als ...

Bruce Hungerford Bruce Hungerford (24 November 192226 January 1977), known for the majority of his career as Leonard Hungerford, was an Australian pianist. Biography Born in Korumburra, Victoria, Bruce Hungerford was originally named Leonard Sinclair Hungerfo ...

* Anastasia Huppmann

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Valentina Igoshina Valentina Igoshina (born 4 November 1978 in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast) is a Russian classical pianist. She has won several international piano competitions. Biography Valentina Igoshina began studying piano with her mother, and first took lessons ...

* Konstantin Igumnov * Ivan Ilić * Jos Van Immerseel * Ingmar Piano Duo *

Stanislav Ioudenitch Stanislav Ioudenitch (born December 5, 1971) is an Uzbekistani-born American pianist, known for winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, jointly with Olga Kern, as wel ...

* Clelia Iruzun * Yoram Ish-Hurwitz * Eugene Istomin * Kei Itoh * Amparo Iturbi * José Iturbi * Antonio Iturrioz * Christian Ivaldi * Andrei Ivanovitch

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Peter Jablonski Peter Jablonski (born 1971) is a Swedish concert pianist. Biography Peter Jablonski was born in Lyckeby, Sweden to a Swedish mother and Polish father. He studied percussion and piano at Malmö Conservatory from 1982 to 1986. He performed as a ...

* Paul Jacobs * Katarzyna Jaczynowska * Zoran G. Jančić *

Jenő Jandó Jenő Jandó (; born 1 February 1952) is a Hungarian pianist and Professor of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Background and education Jandó studied piano at the Liszt Academy with Katalin Nemes and Pál Kadosa, la ...

* Byron Janis * Tasso Janopoulo * Rudolf Jansen *

Gintaras Januševičius Gintaras Januševičius (born 16 January 1985) is a Lithuanian pianist, music educator, event producer, radio presenter, and philanthropist. He is renowned for narrative recitals and original interpretations; particularly that of Rachmaninoff, ...

* Adolf Jensen * José Manuel Jiménez Berroa

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* Grant Johannesen *

Gunnar Johansen Gunnar Johansen (January 21, 1906, Copenhagen – May 25, 1991, Blue Mounds, Wisconsin) was a Danish-born pianist and composer. He was one of the chief proponents of the music of Ferruccio Busoni, whose mature keyboard works he recorded in their ...

* Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz * Graham Johnson *

Henry Jolles Henry Jolles (born Heinz-Frederic Jolles; 28 November 1902 – 16 July 1965), was a German pianist and composer. Uprooted from his native Germany by the rise of Nazism, he spent his last quarter-century in Brazil.Maryla Jonas *

Rafael Joseffy Rafael Joseffy (July 3, 1852 – June 25, 1915) was a Hungarian Jewish pianist, teacher and composer. Life Rafael Joseffy was born in Hunfalu, Szepes County (now Huncovce, Slovakia) in 1852. His youth was spent in Miskolc, and he began hi ...

* Bradley Joseph * William Joseph *

Geneviève Joy Geneviève Joy (; 4 October 1919 – 27 November 2009) was a French classical and modernist pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership with Jacqueline Robin which lasted for forty-five ye ...

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Terence Judd Terence Judd (3 October 1957between 16 and 23 December 1979) was an English pianist. Career Terence Judd was born in 1957 to English-American parents, Anthony and Gloria Judd. In 1967, aged 10, he won the National Junior Pianoforte Competition, a ...

Scott Joplin Scott Joplin ( 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Because of the fame achieved for his ragtime compositions, he was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his career, he wrote over 40 original ragtime pieces, one ra ...

* Joonatan Jürgenson

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Jeffrey Kahane Jeffrey Alan Kahane (born September 12, 1956) is an American classical concert pianist and conductor. He was music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years, the longest of any music director in the orchestra's history. He is ...

* Percy Kahn * Joseph Kalichstein * Gilbert Kalish *

Friedrich Kalkbrenner Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (2–8 November 1785 – 10 June 1849), also known as ''Frédéric Kalkbrenner'', was a pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer. German by birth, Kalkbrenner studied at the Conservatoire de ...

* William Kapell * Richard Kapp * Jozef Kapustka * Danae Kara * Natalia Karp *

Yakov Kasman Yakov Kasman (born February 24, 1967) is a Russian American classical pianist, professor of piano, and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Since his American debut as the silver medalist at the Tenth Van Cliburn Inter ...

* Andrey Kasparov * Julius Katchen *

Peter Katin Peter Roy Katin ( ) (14 November 193019 March 2015) was a British classical pianist and teacher. Biography Katin was born in London; his father was sign-painter Jerrold Katin (who was born in Lithuania) and mother Gertrude. Katin was educated ...

Cyprien Katsaris Cyprien Katsaris ( el, Κυπριανός Κατσαρής; born 5 May 1951) is a French- Cypriot virtuoso pianist, teacher and composer. Amongst his teachers were Monique de la Bruchollerie, a student of Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil o ...

* Amir Katz * Martin Katz *

Mindru Katz Mindru Katz (3 June 192530 January 1978) was a Romanian- Israeli classical pianist. Biography Katz was born to Jewish parents in Bucharest in 1925. He was discovered as a child prodigy by the noted composer George Enescu, and taught by Florica ...

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Constance Keene Constance Keene (9 February 192124 December 2005) was an American pianist, who was renowned for her 1964 recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Preludes and won critical acclaim for her recordings of the works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von ...

* Simone Keller * Freddy Kempf *

Wilhelm Kempff Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations ...

Sean Kennard Sean Eric Kennard (born October 3, 1984) is an American classical pianist. Early years Sean Kennard was born in San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father. He grew up in Hawaii and his family moved to Philadelphia when he b ...

Kevin Kenner Kevin Kenner (born May 19, 1963 in Coronado, California) is an American concert pianist. Biography At the age of 17, Kenner was a finalist at the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Ten years later, in 1990 he returned to Warsaw ...

* Louis Kentner * Olga Kern * Mikhail Kerzelli * Minuetta Kessler * Eugène Ketterer * Stanislav Khegai * Frederick B. Kiddle *

Edward Kilenyi Edward Kilenyi Jr. (1910 – 2000) was a classical pianist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 7, 1910. Kilenyi studied in Hungary with the composer/pianist Ernő Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, earning a diploma in ...

* Gary Kirkpatrick * John Kirkpatrick * Anatole Kitain * Margaret Kitchin * Evgeny Kissin * Dmitri Klebanov *

Elisabeth Klein Elisabeth Klein (23 July 1911 – 11 October 2004) was a Hungarian-Danish pianist. Biography Elisabeth Klein was born in Trencsén (now Slovakia) and lived in Budapest, Hungary from the age of 3. At any early age she demonstrated a strong apti ...

* Jacques Klein *

Walter Klien Walter Klien (27 November 1928 – 9 February 1991) was an Austrian pianist. ] Career Klien was born in Graz in 1928. His mother was the artist Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957). She emigrated to the United States in 1929, and their only furth ...

* Paul Klengel

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Aimi Kobayashi is a Japanese people, Japanese Classical music, classical pianist. She was a finalist at the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition and won 4th prize at the subsequent XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition. Biography She was born in ...

Alexander Kobrin Alexander Yevgenyevich Kobrin (Александр Кобрин, born 20 March 1980 in Moscow) is a concert pianist and teacher. At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Z ...

* Tobias Koch * Zoltán Kocsis * Raoul (von) Koczalski * Mari Kodama *

Alan Kogosowski Alan Kogosowski (born 22 December 1962) is an Australian classical pianist. Biography Abraham (Alan) Kogosowski was born in Melbourne to Hanna (née Prager) and Izio (Izzy) Kogosowski. From the age of six he played the piano for ten hours a day. ...

* Lubka Kolessa * Alfons Kontarsky * Aloys Kontarsky *

Anton de Kontski Anton de Kontski (25 September 18167 December 1899) was a Polish pianist and composer. He was also known as Antoni Kątski and Antoine de Kontski, sometimes with the appellation "Chevalier." Life and career Born in Kraków, Anton de Kontski was ...

* Jason Kouchak * Giorgio Koukl * Stephen Kovacevich *

Leopold Koželuch Leopold Koželuch (, born ''Jan Antonín Koželuh'', alternatively also ''Leopold Koželuh'', ''Leopold Kotzeluch'') (26 June 1747 – 7 May 1818) was a Czech composer and music teacher. He was born in the town of Velvary, in Bohemia (presen ...

* Vladimir Krainev * Lili Kraus *

Martin Krause Martin Krause (17 June 18532 August 1918) was a German concert pianist, piano teacher,James Methuen-Campbell (2001). Krause, Martin. ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press music critic, and writer. Career Martin Krause was born in L ...

Anna Kravtchenko Anna Kravtchenko (born 1976) is an Italian classical pianist. She won the Busoni competition in 1992 and has been a piano teacher at the ' in Lugano since 2013. Early life Kravtchenko began learning piano at age five; she recalls "the great jo ...

Gustav Kross Gustav Kross () was a Russian pianist and teacher. He is primarily remembered for being the soloist of the first, negatively-received Russian performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Biography Gustav Gustavovich Kross was born in Saint ...

* Vladimir Krpan

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* Antonín Kubálek * Anton Kuerti *

Friedrich Kuhlau Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau ( German; Danish sometimes ''Frederick Kulav'') (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danis ...

Theodor Kullak Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blue ...

* Miroslav Kultyshev * Eduard Kunz * Vilém Kurz *

Elena Kuschnerova Elena Kuschnerova ( rus, Еле́на Ефи́мовна Кушнеро́ва, Yelena Yefimovna Kushnerova; born 6 January 1959 in Moscow) is a Russian-born classical pianist. Biography Elena Kuschnerova was born into a musical family in Moscow. ...

* Christiaan Kuyvenhoven * Leonid Kuzmin * Radoslav Kvapil * Rena Kyriakou

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* Katia Labèque * Marielle Labèque *

Carl Lachmund Carl V. Lachmund (27 March 185320 February 1928) was an American classical pianist, teacher, conductor, composer, and diarist. He was a student of Franz Liszt for three years, and his detailed diaries of his time with Liszt provide an invaluable i ...

* Carles Lama * Frederic Lamond * Geoffrey Lancaster * Walter Landauer *

Wanda Landowska Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in ...

Piers Lane Piers Lane (born 8 January 1958) is an Australian classical pianist. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works. Early life Lane's English father and Australian mother met while au ...

Lang Lang Lang Lang (; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in China, North America, Europe, and elsewhere. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, ...

* Milan Langer * Cosimo Damiano Lanza * Ruth Laredo *

Ervin László Ervin László (; born 12 June 1932) is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He is an advocate of the theory of quantum consciousness. Early life and education László w ...

Jacob Lateiner Jacob Lateiner (March 31, 1928 – December 12, 2010) was a Cuban-American pianist. Early life and studies Though born on March 31, 1928, Lateiner's father did not get around to registering his birth until May 31 the same year. He was the br ...

* Risto Lauriala *

Franz Lauska Franz Seraphin Lauska (13 January 1764 – 18 April 1825), baptised as Franciscus Ignatius Joannes Nepomucensis Carolus Boromaeus,Anke Sieber: Franz Lauska (1764–1825). Biographie, Briefe, Werkverzeichnis, Göttingen: Hainholz 2016. was a Mora ...

* Horacio Lavandera *

Ingmar Lazar Ingmar Lazar (born June 22, 1993 in Saint-Cloud, is a French classical pianist. Lazar started to play the piano when he was five. He made his debut at the age of six at the Salle Gaveau. At the age of 10, he won the International EPTA Piano Comp ...

* George-Emmanuel Lazaridis * Igor Lazko

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* Ka Ling Colleen Lee * Denoe Leedy * Reinbert de Leeuw * Ralph Leopold *

Christian Leotta Christian Leotta (born 1980 in Catania, Italy) is an Italian virtuoso pianist. Leotta has performed and recorded all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas. He began his study of piano at the age of 7, furthering his studies at the Milan Conservatory under ...

Theodor Leschetizky Theodor Leschetizky (sometimes spelled Leschetitzky, pl, Teodor Leszetycki; 22 June 1830 – 14 November 1915 was an Austrian-Polish pianist, professor, and composer born in Landshut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crown land of ...

* Daniel Lessner * Ray Lev * Eric Le Van *

Oscar Levant Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian and actor. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for rec ...

* Beth Levin * Robert Levin * Robert D. Levin * James Levine * Igor Levit *

Mischa Levitzki Mischa Levitzki (also spelled Levitski; uk, Міша Левицький (); May 25, 1898 – January 2, 1941) was a Russian-born U.S.-based concert pianist. Levitzki was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), to Jew ...

* Daniel Levy * Ernst Levy * Raymond Lewenthal * Paul Lewis

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Josef Lhévinne Josef Lhévinne (13 December 18742 December 1944) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: ''Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing''. Asked how to say his name, he told ''The L ...

* Rosina Lhévinne *

George Li George Li (; born August 24, 1995) is an American concert pianist who was a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2016 and silver medalist of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Early life George Li was born on August 24, 1995, ...

* Ming Qiang Li *

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Liberace Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordi ...

* Cecile Licad *

John Lill John Richard Lill (born 17 March 1944 in London) is a British classical pianist. Biography Lill studied at the Royal College of Music with Angus Morrison, and with Wilhelm Kempff. His talent emerged at an early age, he gave his first piano re ...

* Arthur Moreira Lima * Christiana Lin * Jenny Lin * Dinu Lipatti *

Jan Lisiecki Jan Lisiecki (; born March 23, 1995) is a Canadian-born classical pianist of Polish ancestry. Lisiecki performs over a hundred concerts annually and has worked closely with the world's leading orchestras and conductors, his career at the top of ...

* Valentina Lisitsa * James Lisney *

Eugene List Eugene List (July 6, 1918March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher. Early life Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) ...

* Barbara Lister-Sink *

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

* Kate Liu

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Peter Lockwood Peter John Lockwood is an ICT professional and former Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from 2002 to 2006. He started working life in the Commonwealth Bank, but gave that up to ...

* Nicolai Lomov * Kathleen Long * Marguerite Long * Thomas Lorango *

Roger Lord Roger Lord is a Canadian performing classical pianist and professor of piano at l'Université de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Lord studied at Université de Moncton, McGill University, Université de Montréal, and the Moscow ...

* Wolfram Lorenzen *

Yvonne Loriod Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod-Messiaen (; 20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod. Biography Loriod ...

* Louis Lortie * Iris Loveridge * Anne Lovett * Jerome Lowenthal

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Alexei Lubimov Alexei Lubimov (born 1944 as Алексе́й Бори́сович Люби́мов, Alexey Borisovich Lyubimov) is a Russian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist. Lubimov studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Nau ...

* Nikolai Lugansky * Jean-Marc Luisada *

Radu Lupu Radu Lupu (30 November 1945 – 17 April 2022) was a Romanian pianist. He was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of his time. Born in Galați, Romania, Lupu began studying piano at the age of six. Two of his major piano teach ...

* Witold Lutosławski *

Sergei Lyapunov Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (or Liapunov; russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в, ; 8 November 1924) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. Life Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his fath ...

* Moura Lympany * Charles Lynch *

Clive Lythgoe Clive Lythgoe (9 April 1927 – 4 September 2006), was a leading British classical pianist of the 1950s and 1960s, popular in the UK and the United States, where he was considered to be "Britain's answer to Liberace" Early life He was born i ...

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Edward MacDowell Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites '' Woodland Sketches'', ''Sea Pieces'' and '' ...

* Joanna MacGregor *

Geoffrey Douglas Madge Geoffrey Douglas Madge (born 3 October 1941) is an Australian classical pianist and composer. Biography Madge was born in Adelaide and took his first piano lessons at the age of eight. He later won the 1963 ABC Concerto and Vocal Competition. A ...

* Aleksandar Madžar *

Nikita Magaloff Nikita Magaloff (russian: Никита Магалов; 26 December 1992) was a Georgian-Russian pianist. He was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland. ...

* Frederik Magle *

Désiré Magnus Désiré Magnus (né Magnus Deutz; 13 June 1828 – 17 December 1883) was a Belgian concert pianist, teacher and composer of salon music who published under the pseudonym D. Magnus. Biography Magnus was born in Brussels and studied piano with ...

Petronel Malan Petronel Malan (born in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African concert pianist based in the United States. Triple Grammy-nominated South African pianist Petronel Malan is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognized label ...

Krzysztof Malek Christopher Malek is a Polish-born concert pianist originally from Stalowa Wola, Poland, currently residing in Sydney, Australia. He is best known for his performances of music of the romantic period especially Chopin and Liszt. Biography Chri ...

* Anna Malikova * Witold Małcużyński

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* Rosario Marciano *

Adele Marcus Adele Marcus (February 22, 1906 May 3, 1995) was an American pianist and instructor whose career was based at the Juilliard School in New York City. Life and career Marcus was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the youngest of 13 children of a rabb ...

* Irén Marik *

Ozan Marsh Ozan Marsh (June 25, 1920 in Pasadena, California – March 15, 1992) was a pianist active in concert performances throughout the world as well as across the United States. A disciple of Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Petri, Casadesus and von Saue ...

* Oleg Marshev * Philip Martin * Malcolm Martineau * João Carlos Martins * Giuseppe Martucci * Jean-Pierre Marty *

Eduard Marxsen Eduard Marxsen (23 July 1806 – 18 November 1887)Page for ''Marxsen, Eduard'', at imslp.org
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William Mason William, Willie, or Willy Mason may refer to: Arts and entertainment *William Mason (poet) (1724–1797), English poet, editor and gardener *William Mason (architect) (1810–1897), New Zealand architect *William Mason (composer) (1829–1908), Ame ...

* William Masselos * Draga Matković *

Denis Matsuev Denis Leonidovich Matsuev ( rus, Дени́с Леони́дович Мацу́ев /ma'tsujef/; born June 11, 1975) is a Russian classical pianist and occasional jazz performer. Biography Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child o ...

* Colette Maze

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* Edwin McArthur * Stephanie McCallum * Leon McCawley *

Anne-Marie McDermott Anne-Marie McDermott is an American classical pianist and member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is also the artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Key Largo, Flori ...

* Murray McLachlan *

Nikolai Medtner Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, ''Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner''; 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immed ...

* Hephzibah Menuhin *

Yaltah Menuhin Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet. Early life Yaltah was born in San Francisco, the youngest of three extraordinarily musically gifted children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin ...

* Susan Merdinger * Yolanda Mero *

Janne Mertanen Janne Juhani Mertanen (born 28 August 1967 in Joensuu, Finland) is a Finnish classical pianist. Life and career Janne Mertanen has studied at the Joensuu Conservatory as a student of Matti Haapasalo and at the Sibelius Academy where his teachers ...

Victor Merzhanov Victor Karpovich Merzhanov (russian: Ви́ктор Ка́рпович Мержа́нов) (15 August 191920 December 2012) was a Russian pianist and People's Artist of the USSR (1990). Biography Merzhanov was born in Tambov and studied at Tam ...

Noel Mewton-Wood Noel Mewton-Wood (20 November 19225 December 1953) was an Australian-born concert pianist who achieved international fame on the basis of many distinguished concerto recordings during his short life. Life and career Born in Melbourne, he studied ...

* Marcelle Meyer * Stefano Miceli *

Aleksander Michałowski Aleksander Michałowski (17 October 1938) was a Polish pianist, pedagogue and composer who, in addition to his own immense technique, had a profound influence upon the teaching of pianoforte technique, especially in relation to the works of Chopi ...

* Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli * Miloš Mihajlović * Karol Mikuli *

Kenneth G. Mills Kenneth George Mills (January 25, 1923 – October 8, 2004) was a Canadian metaphysical/philosophical speaker and author. An exponent of the oral tradition, he gave spontaneous lectures and poetry for over 37 years. At the same time, he became not ...

* Hamish Milne * Martha Mier

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Benno Moiseiwitsch Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE (22 February 18909 April 1963) was a Russian-born British pianist. Biography Moiseiwitsch was born to Jewish parents in Odessa, Russian Empire (today part of Ukraine), and began his studies at age seven with Dmitry Klim ...

Gabriela Montero Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970) is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical r ...

* Sergio Monteiro * Emánuel Moór * Gerald Moore *

Ivan Moravec Ivan Moravec (9 November 1930 – 27 July 2015) was a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career spanned nearly half a century. Media and critics worldwide often called Moravec "a poet of the piano" or "pianist supreme". He is cons ...

* Harold Morris * Ignaz Moscheles *

Jurij Moskvitin Jurij Moskvitin (Robert Jurij Moskvitin Hansen, 6 January 1938 – 25 May 2005) was a classical pianist, composer, philosopher, mathematician and boheme. Jurij Moskvitin grew up in Denmark; his mother was a Russian aristocrat and his father was a ...

Moritz Moszkowski Moritz Moszkowski (23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.

* Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart *

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

* Ian Munro *

Mieczysław Munz Mieczysław Munz (October 31, 1900, Kraków – August 25, 1976) was a Polish-American pianist. Munz trained in Vienna and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni. He was a teacher of Emanuel Ax, Walter Hautzig, David Oei, Ann Schein, Virginia Rei ...

William Murdoch William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten yea ...

* Julien Musafia * Olli Mustonen

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* Jon Nakamatsu * Alexei Nasedkin * Soheil Nasseri *

Yves Nat Yves Philippe Avit Nat (29 December 1890 – 31 August 1956) was a French pianist and composer. Biography Nat was born in Béziers and showed an early aptitude for both piano and composition. By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise each ...

Eldar Nebolsin Eldar Nebolsin (born 1974) is an Uzbek-born classical pianist. Biography Born in Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union) in 1974, Nebolsin started studying piano at early age in his native country. In 1991 he moved to Madrid to study with ...

* Anton Nel * Pascal Nemirovski * Heinrich Neuhaus *

Edmund Neupert (Carl Fredrik) Edmund Neupert (1 April 184222 June 1888) was a Norwegian music teacher, pianist and composer. Among Neupert's compositions, the ''24 Concert-Etüden'' and the ''24 Octav-Etüden'' are especially highly regarded. Biography Neuper ...

Ethelbert Nevin Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (November 25, 1862February 17, 1901) was an American pianist and composer. Early life Nevin was born on November 25, 1862, at Vineacre, on the banks of the Ohio River, in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania.Mulkearn, Lois, p. 62 ...

* Anthony Newman * Elly Ney

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* Reid Nibley *

Francesco Nicolosi Francesco Nicolosi (born 7 December 1954) is an Italian pianist. Biography Nicolosi was born in Catania, Italy. He has lived in Naples, Italy since 1973 where he studied with Vincenzo Vitale. Since 1996 he is the president of the Sigismund Thal ...

* Stanislas Niedzielski * Mitja Nikisch * Tatiana Nikolayeva * Andrei Nikolsky * David Owen Norris *

Eunice Norton Eunice Norton (June 30, 1908 – December 9, 2005) was an American pianist. Life and career Mrs. Norton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied as a child at the University of Minnesota with William Lindsay, who later introduced ...

Gustav Nottebohm Martin Gustav Nottebohm (12 November 1817, Lüdenscheid, Westphalia – 29 October 1882, Graz) was a pianist, teacher, musical editor and composer who spent most of his career in Vienna. He is particularly celebrated for his studies of Beethoven. ...

* Guiomar Novaes * Marie Novello * Theodosia Ntokou * Ervin Nyiregyházi

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* Lev Oborin * John O'Conor * John Ogdon * Garrick Ohlsson * Santos Ojeda * David Ezra Okonşar * Janusz Olejniczak * Bart van Oort * Ursula Oppens * Gerhard Oppitz * Christopher O'Riley * Nikolai Orlov (pianist), Nikolai Orlov * József Örmény * Leo Ornstein * Rafael Orozco (pianist), Rafael Orozco * Cristina Ortiz * Steven Osborne (pianist), Steven Osborne * Alexander Osminin * Clio-Danae Othoneou * Henrique Oswald * Cécile Ousset * Vladimir Ovchinnikov (pianist), Vladimir Ovchinnikov

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* Enrico Pace * Vladimir de Pachmann * Ignacy Jan Paderewski * Kun-Woo Paik * Natasha Paremski * Jon Kimura Parker * Natalya Pasichnyk * Ernst Pauer * Victor Paukstelis

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* Pekinel sisters, Güher Pekinel * Pekinel sisters, Süher Pekinel * Leonard Pennario * Murray Perahia * Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein * Neal Peres Da Costa * Alfredo Perl * Vlado Perlemuter * Vincent Persichetti * Yella Pessl * Egon Petri * Christina Petrowska-Quilico * Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade * Isidor Philipp * Andrzej Pikul * Cecilia Pillado * George Pinto (composer), George Pinto * Maria João Pires * Johann Peter Pixis * Artur Pizarro

Pl-Po

* Francis Planté * Mikhail Pletnev * Ignaz Pleyel * Jonathan Plowright * Leo Podolsky * Ivo Pogorelić * François-Xavier Poizat * Daniel Pollack * Maurizio Pollini * Antonio Pompa-Baldi * Michael Ponti * Roland Pöntinen * Tiffany Poon * Stephen Portman * Paul Posnak * Viktoria Postnikova * Cipriani Potter * Harrison Potter * Leff Pouishnoff * Francis Poulenc * Jonathan Powell (musician), Jonathan Powell * Lloyd Powell

Pr-Pu

* Awadagin Pratt * Menahem Pressler * André Previn * Vassily Primakov * Paul Procopolis * Sergei Prokofiev * Roland Pröll * Roberto Prosseda * Svetla Protich * Raoul Pugno

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* Anne Queffélec

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* Alexander Raab * Roman Rabinovich * Valentin Radu * Sergei Rachmaninoff * Ezra Rachlin * Thomas Rajna * Dezső Ránki * Siegfried Rapp * Michael Raucheisen * Rawicz and Landauer, Marjan Rawicz * Alexander Raytchev * Walter Rehberg * Carl Reinecke * Julius Reubke * Lívia Rév * Eliane Reyes

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* Sviatoslav Richter * Hans Richter-Haaser * Ferdinand Ries * Herman Rietzel * Bernard Ringeissen * Diana Ringo * Édouard Risler * Anastasia Rizikov

Ro-Rz

* Bernard Roberts * Santiago Rodriguez (pianist), Santiago Rodriguez * Pascal Rogé * Michael Roll (pianist), Michael Roll * Helmut Roloff * Aleksandra Romanić * Marcel Rominger * Landon Ronald, Sir Landon Ronald * Julius Röntgen * Martin Roscoe * Jerome Rose * Charles Rosen * Carol Rosenberger * Moriz Rosenthal * Nicholas Roth * Jacques Rouvier * Mūza Rubackytė * Anton Rubinstein * Arthur Rubinstein * Nikolai Rubinstein * Mikhail Rudy * James Russo * Frans van Ruth * Frederic Rzewski

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* Geoffrey Saba * Vasily Safonov * Camille Saint-Saëns * Anton Salnikov * Pnina Salzman * Olga Samaroff * Adnan Sami * Harold Samuel * György Sándor * Victor Sangiorgio * Jesús María Sanromá * Arthur Napoleão dos Santos * Wassily Sapellnikoff * Erik Satie * Emil von Sauer * Amandine Savary * Jean-Marc Savelli * Marko Savić (pianist), Marko Savić * Fazıl Say

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* Domenico Scarlatti * Irene Scharrer * Xaver Scharwenka * Konstantin Scherbakov * Ann Schein Carlyss * Olga Scheps * Valentin Schiedermair * András Schiff * Madeline Schiller * Victor Schiøler * Steffen Schleiermacher * Burkard Schliessmann * Peter Schmalfuss * Helmut Schmidt * Johan Schmidt * E. Robert Schmitz

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* Artur Schnabel * Karl Ulrich Schnabel * Andre-Michel Schub * Franz Schubert * Clara Schumann * Robert Schumann * Ludwig Schuncke * Arminda Schutte

Sci-Sg

* Giacomo Scinardo * Hazel Scott * Alexander Scriabin * Isidor Seiss * Kathryn Selby * Blanche Selva * Peter Serkin * Rudolf Serkin * Dimitris Sgouros * Timur Selçuk

Sh-Si

* Regina Shamvili * Barbara Shearer * Harrison Sheckler * Mordecai Shehori * Howard Shelley * Anatoly Sheludyakov * Roy Shepherd (pianist), Roy Shepherd * Russell Sherman * Norman Shetler * Dmitri Shostakovich * Bella Shteinbuk * Leonard Shure * Clara Isabella Siegle * Valery Sigalevitch * Antti Siirala * Béla Síki * Alexander Siloti * Abbey Simon * Leo Sirota * Larry Sitsky

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* Heather Slade-Lipkin * Ruth Slenczynska * Alexander Slobodyanik * Sigurd Slåttebrekk * Regina Smendzianka * Jan Smeterlin * Leo Smit (Dutch composer), Leo Smit * Cyril Smith (pianist), Cyril Smith * Ronald Smith (musician), Ronald Smith * Sydney Smith (composer), Sydney Smith * Wibi Soerjadi * Vladimir Sofronitsky * Grigory Sokolov * Ivan Sokolov (composer), Ivan Sokolov * Juan María Solare * Solomon (pianist), Solomon * Wonny Song * Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji * Gonzalo Soriano * Jaap Spaanderman * Pietro Spada * Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak

St

* Peter Stadlen * Martin Stadtfeld * Andreas Staier * Fanny Stål * Camille-Marie Stamaty * Susan Starr * Bernhard Stavenhagen * Daniel Steibelt * Pavel Štěpán * Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová * Edna Stern * Eduard Steuermann * Ronald Stevenson * Johanne Stockmarr * Zygmunt Stojowski * Kathryn Stott * August Stradal * Soulima Stravinsky

Su-Sz

* Szuyu Rachel Su * Evelyn Suart * Yevgeny Sudbin * Iyad Sughayer * Grete Sultan * Alexei Sultanov * Mei-Ting Sun, Sun Meiting * Yingdi Sun, Sun Yingdi * Yekwon Sunwoo * Rose and Ottilie Sutro * Alexander Sverjensky * Yevgeny Svetlanov * Ruslan Sviridov * David Syme (pianist), David Syme * Beata Szalwinska * Roberto Szidon * Balázs Szokolay * Władysław Szpilman

T

Ta-Th

* Gabriel Tacchino * Duo Tal & Groethuysen, Yaara Tal * Magda Tagliaferro * Mark Taimanov * Ani Takidze * Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, Alexander Tamir * Alexandre Tansman * Sergei Tarnowsky * Karl Tausig * Christopher Taylor (pianist), Christopher Taylor * Simon Tedeschi * Louis Teicher * Gerardo Teissonniere * Thomas Tellefsen * Alfred Teltschik * Per Tengstrand * Sigismond Thalberg * Károly Thern * Willi and Louis Thern, Louis Thern * Willi and Louis Thern, Willi Thern * Jean-Yves Thibaudet * François-Joël Thiollier * Penelope Thwaites

Ti-Ty

* Ignaz Tiegerman * Sergio Tiempo * Vera Timanova * James Tocco * Václav Tomášek * Alexander Toradze * Donald Tovey * Geoffrey Tozer * Max Trapp * Daniil Trifonov * Simon Trpčeski * Valerie Tryon * Richard Aaker Trythall * Nobuyuki Tsujii * David Tudor * Józef Turczyński * Rosalyn Tureck * Tarja Turunen * Anderson Tyrer * Hélène Tysman

U

* Mitsuko Uchida * Ayako Uehara (pianist), Ayako Uehara * Emilia Uggla * Alexander Uninsky * Rem Urasin * Roberto Urbay

V

Va-Ve

* Mariangela Vacatello * Vladimir Valjarević * John Vallier * Nick van Bloss * Arie Vardi * Tamás Vásáry * Duo Vela, Ester Vela * Duo Vela, Eulalia Vela * Giovanni Velluti (pianist), Giovanni Velluti * Ilana Vered * Adela Verne * Mathilde Verne * Matthijs Verschoor

Vi-Vr

* José Vianna da Motta * Vladimir Viardo * Roger Vignoles * Ivan Vihor * Joseph Villa * Ricardo Viñes * Anastasia Virsaladze * Eliso Virsaladze * Stefan Vladar * Pancho Vladigerov * Oleg Volkov * Alexei Volodin * Arcadi Volodos * Andrew von Oeyen * Franz Vorraber * Ralph Votapek * Vronsky & Babin, Vitya Vronsky

W

Wa

* Elena Waiss * Althea Waites * Émile Waldteufel * Ernest Walker (composer), Ernest Walker * William Vincent Wallace * Bruno Walter * Yuja Wang * Andrzej Wasowski * Huw Watkins * André Watts

We-Wn

* Beveridge Webster * Nancy Weir * Alan Weiss (musician), Alan Weiss * Orion Weiss * Alexis Weissenberg * Chris Mary Francine Whittle * Ueli Wiget * Earl Wild * Gerard Willems * Llŷr Williams * Michael Glenn Williams * Malcolm Williamson * Paul Wittgenstein * Daniel Wnukowski

Wo-Wu

* Galina Werschenska * Joseph Wölfl * Ernst Victor Wolff * Joseph Wölfl * Eleanor Wong (musician), Eleanor Wong * Roger Woodward * Bolesław Woytowicz * Roger Wright (pianist), Roger Wright * Ingolf Wunder * Friedrich Wührer

X

* Di Xiao

Y

* Oxana Yablonskaya * Marina Yakhlakova * Ivan Yanakov (pianist), Ivan Yanakov * Anna Yesipova * Ramzi Yassa * Christine Yoshikawa * Jeanne You * Avan Yu * Maria Yudina * Yanni * Yiruma * Yoshiki Hayashi

Z

* Franciszek Zachara * Yakov Zak * Berenika Zakrzewski * Evgeny Zarafiants * Carlo Zecchi * Dieter Zechlin * Mark Zeltser * Zhu Xiao-Mei * Igor Zhukov * Lilya Zilberstein * Krystian Zimerman * Tadeusz Żmudziński * Zhang Zuo * Nikolai Zverev * Wojciech Żywny

References

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