Christian Leotta (born 1980 in

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, Italy) is an Italian virtuoso

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. 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

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under Mario Patuzzi and is a former pupil of the pianist

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. Leotta studied at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation and also with Rosalyn Tureck at the Tureck Bach Research Foundation at Oxford. He also studied at the Literature and Philosophy faculty of Milan State University. Leotta officially began his career in 2002 in Montreal at the age of 22 and began to perform the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, which he completed in a period of less than a month.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Leotta, Christian Italian male classical pianists Italian male pianists Living people 1980 births 21st-century Italian classical pianists 21st-century Italian male musicians Milan Conservatory alumni