Lazar Berman

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Lazar Berman
Lazar Berman in 1988
Background information
Birth name	Lazar Berman
Born	(1930-02-26)February 26, 1930 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Died	February 6, 2005(2005-02-06) (aged 74) Florence, Italy
Genres	Classical piano
Years active	1935 (1935)–2005 (2005)

Lazar Naumovich Berman (Russian: Ла́зарь Нау́мович Бе́рман, Lazar Naumovich Berman; February 26, 1930 – February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world."^[1]