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Biography
refimprove|date=April 2010 Maurizio Pollini (b. January 5, 1942) is an Italy|Italian classical music|classical pianist .
Biography and career
Pollini was born in Milan to the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini . Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso , until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won both the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition in Seregno ( Italy ) in 1959 and the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960. Arthur Rubinstein , who led the jury, declared Pollini the winner of the competition, saying: "that boy can play the piano better than any of us".cite news|title=Maurizio Pollini: ice-man of the ivories |agency= Telegraph |date=14 September 2010|url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/7324088/Maurizio-Pollini-ice-man-of-the-ivories.html|accessdate=18 September 2010|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Ivan|last=Hewett Soon afterwards, he studied with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli .
Since the mid-1960s, he has given recitals and appeared with major orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Pollini was a left-wing political acitivist. He collaborated with Luigi Nono in such works as Como una ola fuerza y luz (1972), which was to mourn the assassination of Luciano Cruz, a leader of the Chilean Revolutionary Front. He performed with Claudio Abbado at La Scala in a cycle of concerts for students and workers, in an attempt to build a new public as they believed that art should be for everybody.cite news|title=Maurizio Pollini: a life in music |agency= The Guardian |date=1 January 2011|url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jan/01/maurizio-pollini-interview-nicholas-wroe|accessdate=05 April 2012|location=London|work=The Guardian|first=Nicholas|last=Wroe
In 1985, on the occasion of Johann Sebastian Bach 's tricentenary, he performed the complete first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier . In 1987 he played the complete piano concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in New York with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and received on this occasion the orchestra's Honorary Ring. In 1993-94 he played his first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles in Berlin and Munich and later also in New York , Milan , Paris , London and Vienna . At the Salzburg Festival in 1995 he inaugurated the "Progetto Pollini", a series of concerts in which old and new works are juxtaposed. An analogous series took place at Carnegie Hall in 2000-01 with "Perspectives: Maurizio Pollini" and at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2010-11 with the "Pollini Project", a series of five concerts with programmes ranging from Bach to Stockhausen.
In March 2012 it was announcedcite web |url= http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx? eid=4079 |title=Chicago Symphony Orchestra Tickets & amp; Events|accessdate=5 April 2012 that Pollini had cancelled all his forthcoming appearances in the USA for health reasons.
Recordings
His first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1971 included Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky 's Three Movements from Petrushka and Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev 's Piano Sonata No. 7 (Prokofiev)|Seventh Sonata and is still considered a landmark of twentieth century piano discography. Since then he has been one of Deutsche Grammophon's leading pianists. His recording of Frédéric Chopin|Chopin 's Études (Chopin)|Etudes, Opp. 10 & 25 , also under Deutsche Grammophon, won Pollini international acclaim. In 2002, Deutsche Grammophon released a 13-CD commemorative edition to celebrate the pianist's 60th birthday.
Repertoire and technique
Pollini is especially noted for his performances of Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven , Franz Schubert|Schubert , Frédéric Chopin|Chopin , Robert Schumann|Schumann , Johannes Brahms|Brahms , Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg , Anton Webern|Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez , Luigi Nono , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Giacomo Manzoni , Salvatore Sciarrino and Bruno Maderna . Important modern works have been composed for Pollini, notably Nono's …sofferte onde serene… , Manzoni's Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse and Sciarrino's Fifth Sonata.
While known for possessing an exceptional technique, Pollini is sometimes accused of emotional conservatism Schonberg, Harold. The Great Pianists from Mozart to the Present (1987 edition). He has conducted both opera and orchestra l music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in Piano concerto|concertos .
Awards and recognition
In 1996, he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize . In 2001, his recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations won the Diapason d'or. In 2007, Pollini received the Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)|Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Frédéric Chopin|Chopin nocturne s. He was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in 2010.cite news|title=Actress Loren among Japan art prize winners|agency= Agence France-Presse |publisher= Google News |date=14 September 2010|url= http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jYtokv3mES2DA_84SZZPFQaJuRKg|accessdate=14 September 2010 He entered the Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2012.cite web|title=Maurizio Pollini (pianist)|url= http://www.gramophone.co.uk/HallofFame/ArtistPage/Pollini|publisher=Gramophone|accessdate=12 April 2012
References
Further reading
cite news | last =Botsford| first =K| coauthors =| title =The Pollini Sound| work =| pages =| language =| publisher =The New York Times| date =1 March 1987| url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9B0DEEDB1030F932A35750C0A961948260| accessdate =2007-09-29
cite news | last =Norris| first =G| coauthors =| title =A maestro with a mission - to escape the 19th century
| work =Arts| pages =| language =| publisher =The Telegraph| date =9 March 2006| url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml? xml=/arts/2006/03/09/bmpollini09.xml& sSheet=/arts/2006/03/09/ixartleft.html| accessdate =2007-09-29| location=London
cite news | last =Morrison | first =R| coauthors =| title =The model of a modern major maestro| work =Music| pages =| language =| publisher =The Times| date =27 September 2007| url = http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2544755.ece| accessdate =2007-09-29| location=London
External links
http://www.bruceduffie.com/Pollini2.html Maurizio Pollini interview by Bruce Duffie (October 1997)
Persondata | NAME = Pollini, Maurizio | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 5 January 1942 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Pollini, Maurizio Category:Italian classical pianists Category:Italian conductors (music) Category:International Chopin Piano Competition winners Category:1942 births Category:Living people Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Milan Conservatory alumni Category:International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition prize-winners
