Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor. He was active from the 1950s to the 2020s. Barenboim served as the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin. He was also music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, and La Scala in Milan. Barenboim is known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians. He has received numerous awards and prizes, including seven Grammy awards and the Order of the British Empire.

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  PIANO

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  La fille aux cheveux de lin or The Girl with the Flaxen Hair is the best-known piano prelude by the French impressionist...
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  PIANO

  Kinderszenen and Schumann's metronome mystery

  Kinderszenen or Scenes from Childhood is a set of short piano pieces written by Robert Schumann in 1838. Although these...
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  Violin

  Edouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole brought to life by the best violinists of the 20th century

  Symphonie Espagnole is an iconic work by the French composer Edouard Lalo, which is believed to have launched the...
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  PIANO

  The avant-garde tango by Horacio Salgán that shocked audiences in the 1950s

  Horacio Salgán was an Argentinean pianist who took the concept of how tango should sound and flipped it on its head by...
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  Cello

  Recent study of Luigi Boccherini's skeleton revealed the threat of scoliosis for cellists

  Luigi Boccherini was born in the Italian town of Lucca in Tuscany in 1743. He was the third child of a double-bass...
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  Cello

  The lost Haydn concerto was found among the Czech castle documents

  Cello Concerto in C demonstrates the many facets that are unique to the cello only, from growling low chords to sweet... 1 comment