Rome (Italy) (AFP) – Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, a virtuoso of Chopin and Beethoven who enjoyed a decades-long collaboration with La Scala, died Saturday age 82, the Milan opera house announced.

The pianist’s severe, analytical style engages with two of the most challenging works in the repertoire to produce a disc of compelling, muscular authority It took Maurizio Pollini more than 30 years ...

One of the great pianists of our time has died. Maurizio Pollini was admired the world over for his deep, committed pianism and devotion to the composers he loved. He was both in Milan in 1942. The ...

Pollini has a rare gift for imaginative concert programming, and this recital, ostensibly of Beethoven sonatas, opened in a very different realm, with middle-period Schoenberg, his piano pieces opp.

In the May 1976 issue of Gramophone, Joan Chissell reviewed Maurizio Pollini's new recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos 30 and 31, saying of the finale of No 30: 'Pollini's shaping of this ...

The pianist Maurizio Pollini is known as an intellectual of the keyboard. Descriptions of his playing ring variations on the themes of cerebral, cool and detached. He is depicted as a consummate ...

In 1960, an 18-year-old Italian pianist, the youngest contestant, won the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw. “That boy,” the revered pianist Arthur ...

For pianists and music lovers who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Maurizio Pollini’s Beethoven recordings were considered the modern-day gold standard. Pollini’s approach to the composer was ...

On Sunday afternoon at Carnegie Hall, the reverend Maurizio Pollini sought to remind listeners of why he has had such a remarkable recital career. For the most part he succeeded admirably, performing ...

Maurizio Pollini, Celebrated Pianist Who Defined Modernism, Dies at 82 His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy. By David ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pianist Maurizio Pollini performs at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2001. (Robert Mecea / Associated Press) In 1960, an 18-year-old ...