La Scala described him as ‘one of the great musicians of our time’.
Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died aged 82.
He embraced early 20th-century masterpieces by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and post-war modernists such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez and Luigi Nono. “I grew up in a house with art and artists,” Pollini said in an interview. “Old works and modern works coexisted together as part of life.”
After his first international recognition, however, Pollini put his career on hold to study, explaining that performing right away would have been for him “a little premature”.
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