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ALBUMHorowitz plays Liszt, Schumann & MozartVladimir Horowitz
Albums by Vladimir Horowitz
ALBUMKeyboard TranscriptionsMichael Adcock
ALBUMLiszt: Sonate en Si Mineur (Les indispensables de Diapason)Claudio Arrau, Simon Barere & Vladimir Horowitz
ALBUMGrandes Virtuosos de la Música: Vladimir HorowitzVladimir Horowitz
ALBUMVladimir Horowitz, Vol. 3 (1932, 1942, 1946)Vladimir Horowitz
ALBUMPlays Liszt, Bach and MozartAdam Gyorgy
ALBUMArturo Toscanini Conducts The Bbc Recordings, 1937 to 1939: Beethoven, Mozart, BrahmsBBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini & Vladimir Horowitz
ALBUMThe Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 6Mordecai Shehori
ALBUMTchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Rachmaninov, S.: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Horowitz, Hollywood Bowl, W. Steinberg, Koussevitzky) (1949, 1950)Vladimir Horowitz, William Steinberg, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra & Sergey Koussevitzky
ALBUMQuadromania: Vladimir Horowitz, Piano Masterworks (1930-1947)Vladimir Horowitz
ALBUMHorowitz (1941, 1946, 1947)Vladimir Horowitz
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Vladimir Horowitz Essentials
Meet one of the great virtuoso pianists of the recording era.
Artist Biography
With a liquid touch and extraordinary attention to detail, Vladimir Horowitz is widely admired for his white-hot interpretations of Liszt, Scriabin, and Rachmaninoff, among others. Born in 1903 in Kiev, Horowitz fled the then-Russian city in the wake of the 1917 Revolution. After a successful stint giving concerts in Europe, the pianist made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1928, settling in the U.S. with wife Wanda Toscanini, daughter of conductor Arturo Toscanini. Comprising a major part of Horowitz's legacy are the numerous virtuosic transcriptions (imaginative reworkings of well-known pieces) he composed, such as the 1945 arrangement of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever, which he created to mark the Allied victory in World War II—and his U.S. citizenship. Horowitz's fiendishly difficult transcriptions regularly feature in today's recitals and recordings: Lang Lang often performs the historic pianist's version of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 (Ràkòczy March, featured on 2011's Liszt – My Piano Hero) and Yuja Wang plays Horowitz's Variations on a Theme from Bizet's “Carmen” on her 2012 album, Fantasia. Horowitz died in 1989 and is buried in the Toscanini family mausoleum in Milan.
Hometown
Kiev, Ukraine
Genre
Classical