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Lazar Berman | |
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Birth name | Lazar Berman |
Born | Leningrad, Soviet Union | February 26, 1930
Died | February 6, 2005 Florence, Italy | (aged 74)
Genres | Classical piano |
Years active | 1935 | –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]