Le pianiste italien Maurizio Pollini, virtuose de Chopin ou de Beethoven, est décédé samedi à 82 ans, a annoncé La Scala de Milan.
L'artiste avait annulé des concerts ces dernières années en raison d'une santé fragile.
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00:00 Italian pianist Maurizio Polini, a virtuoso of Chopin or Beethoven,
00:04 died Saturday at the age of 82, announced the 2000 Scala.
00:08 The artist had canceled concerts in recent years due to a fragile health.
00:13 For the prestigious Scala Opera Hall,
00:15 Maurizio Polini is one of the great pianists of our time
00:18 and a fundamental reference in the artistic life of the theater for more than 50 years.
00:23 Between 1958 and his last recital in February 2023,
00:26 Polini played 168 times at the Scala, not counting his participation
00:31 in a large number of workshops with students or at conferences.
00:35 Polini was an interpreter capable of revolutionizing the perception of composers
00:38 like Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven himself,
00:41 and of pushing to the listening of avant-garde,
00:43 above all Schoenberg, and contemporary music, underlines the Scala.
00:47 Born in Milan on January 5, 1942 in a family of artists,
00:51 Maurizio Polini made a striking entry into the world of classical music in March 1960.
00:57 He won the first prize in the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where he is, at 18, the youngest participant.
01:03 The Chronicle notes that the president of the jury, Arthur Rubenstein,
01:07 compliments the prodigy "he plays better than any of us".
01:11 Aureole of this prestigious competition,
01:13 Polini could have committed himself to the path of a great concertist.
01:17 He chose to put his career on hold
01:19 to take lessons and expand his repertoire.
01:23 At the end of the 1960s, he participated in improvised concerts in factories,
01:27 programming for students and workers at the Scala in Milan,
01:30 with his friend Claudio Abaddo at the baguette.
01:33 Polini made his first American tour in 1968.
01:37 In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, he continued to record,
01:42 with the prestigious Deutsch Gramophon, concerts and tours.
01:46 Catalogued as a Chopin pianist,
01:49 Polini made a reputation for his maturity with Ludwig van Beethoven,
01:53 Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.
01:55 He also drew the admiration of critics with Johannes Brahms.