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Claudio Arrau

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Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. [1]

90 relations: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alfred Cortot, András Schiff, Answers.com, Arrau Medal, Arthur Rubinstein, Baroque music, BBC Radio 3, Berlin Philharmonic, Carl Jung, Carl Maria von Weber, Catholic Church, Charles III of Spain, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Chicago Tribune, Child prodigy, Chile, Chillán, Claude Debussy, Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Douglaston, Queens, Edition Peters, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ernest Schelling, Ferruccio Busoni, France, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Garrick Ohlsson, Geneva, Germany, Gramophone (magazine), Grandes études de Paganini, Hans von Bülow Medal, Harold C. Schonberg, Islamey, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, José Vianna da Motta, Joseph Horowitz, Karlrobert Kreiten, Keyboard instrument, Legion of Honour, Lorenzo de Arrau, Ludwig van Beethoven, Martha Argerich, Martin Krause, Mürzzuschlag, ..., Mexico, Mezzo-soprano, Mily Balakirev, Murray Perahia, National Congress of Chile, National Prize of Art of Chile, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, New York City, Olin Downes, Ophthalmology, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Order of the Aztec Eagle, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Pedro Montt, Philadelphia, Philips Classics Records, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms), Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven), Player piano, Robert Schumann, Roberto Eyzaguirre, Roberto Szidon, Royal Philharmonic Society, Rudolf Serkin, Schoenberg, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Spaniards, Stephen Drury, Stern Conservatory, The New York Times, Transcendental Études, University of Chile, University of Concepción, University of Oxford, Urtext edition, Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Venezuela, Virtuoso, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 20th-century classical music. Expand index (40 more) »

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music.

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Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot (26 September 187715 June 1962) was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century.

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András Schiff

Sir András Schiff (born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor, who has received numerous major awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music.

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Answers.com

Answers.com is an Internet-based knowledge exchange, which includes WikiAnswers.

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Arrau Medal

The Arrau Medal was established by the Robert Schumann Society to memorialize its first honorary member, Claudio Arrau, who died in 1991.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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Berlin Philharmonic

The Berlin Philharmonic (Berliner Philharmoniker) is a German orchestra based in Berlin.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Spanish: Carlos; Italian: Carlo; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain and the Spanish Indies (1759–1788), after ruling Naples as Charles VII and Sicily as Charles V (1734–1759), kingdoms he abdicated to his son Ferdinand.

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Charles-Valentin Alkan

Charles-Valentin Alkan (30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French-Jewish composer and virtuoso pianist.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Child prodigy

In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Chillán

Chillán is a city in the Bío Bío Region of Chile located about south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the geographical center of the country.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim (דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain.

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Douglaston, Queens

Douglaston is an upper middle class community in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Edition Peters

Edition Peters is a classical music publisher founded in Leipzig, Germany in 1800.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Ernest Schelling

Ernest Henry Schelling (July 26, 1876 – December 8, 1939) was an American pianist, composer, and conductor, and music director.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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Garrick Ohlsson

Garrick Olof Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948 in Bronxville, New York) is an American classical pianist.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gramophone (magazine)

Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings.

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Grandes études de Paganini

The Grandes études de Paganini, S.141, are a series of six études for the piano by Franz Liszt, revised in 1851 from an earlier version (published as Études d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S.140, in 1838).

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Hans von Bülow Medal

The Hans von Bülow Medal is awarded by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to outstanding musicians close to the orchestra.

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Harold C. Schonberg

Harold Charles Schonberg (November 29, 1915 – July 26, 2003) was an American music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times.

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Islamey

Islamey: Oriental Fantasy (Исламей: Восточная фантасия), Op.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

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José Vianna da Motta

José Vianna da Motta (sometimes spelt 'Viana da Mota') (22 April 18681 June 1948) was a distinguished Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer.

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Joseph Horowitz

Joseph Horowitz (born 1948 in New York City) is an American cultural historian whose seven books mainly deal with the institutional history of classical music in the United States.

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Karlrobert Kreiten

Karlrobert Kreiten (26 June 1916, Bonn, Rhine Province - 7 September 1943) was a German pianist, though holding Dutch citizenship his entire life due to his Dutch father.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lorenzo de Arrau

Lorenzo de Arrau y Alguer-Suari (1740–1781) belonged to a family of painters and artists from Barcelona famous since the 17th century.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine classical pianist.

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Martin Krause

Martin Krause (17 June 18532 August 1918) was a German concert pianist, piano teacher, music critic, and writer.

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Mürzzuschlag

Mürzzuschlag is a town in northeastern Styria, Austria, the capital of the former Mürzzuschlag District.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Mily Balakirev

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Ми́лий Алексе́евич Бала́кирев,; 2 January 1837 –)Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style.

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Murray Perahia

Murray David Perahia KBE (born April 19, 1947) is an American concert pianist and conductor.

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National Congress of Chile

The National Congress of Chile (Congreso Nacional de Chile) is the legislative branch of the government of the Republic of Chile.

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National Prize of Art of Chile

The National Prize of Art of Chile, was created on November 9, 1942.

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Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri

Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri (born in 1949) is an Italian classical pianist and pedagogue.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Olin Downes

Edwin Olin Downes, better known as Olin Downes (January 27, 1886 – August 22, 1955), was an American music critic, known as "Sibelius's Apostle" for his championship of the music of Jean Sibelius.

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Ophthalmology

Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine and surgery (both methods are used) that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eyeball and orbit.

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Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the only federal decoration of Germany.

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Order of the Aztec Eagle

The Order of the Aztec Eagle (Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca) forms part of the Mexican Honours System and is the highest Mexican order awarded to foreigners in the country.

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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963.

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Pedro Montt

Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt (29 June 1849, Santiago, Chile – 16 August 1910, Bremen, Germany) was a Chilean political figure.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philips Classics Records

Philips Classics Records was started in the 1980s as the new classics record label for Philips Records.

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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)

The Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, is a work for piano and orchestra completed by Johannes Brahms in 1858.

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Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Player piano

A player piano (also known as pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music recorded on perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls, with more modern implementations using MIDI.

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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and an influential music critic.

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Roberto Eyzaguirre

Roberto Eyzaguirre (September 10, 1923 – October 19, 2004) is a Peruvian-American classical pianist and famed piano pedagogue.

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Roberto Szidon

Roberto Szidon (21 September 194121 December 2011) was a Brazilian classical pianist who had an international performing and recording career, and settled in Germany.

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Royal Philharmonic Society

The Royal Philharmonic Society is a British music society, formed in 1813.

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Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin (28 March 1903 – 8 May 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist.

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Schoenberg

Schoenberg (beautiful mountain) is a surname.

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Sovereign Military Order of Malta

The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Supremus Ordo Militaris Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodius et Melitensis), also known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) or the Order of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order traditionally of military, chivalrous and noble nature.

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Spaniards

Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.

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Stephen Drury

Stephen Drury (born April 13, 1955) is an American pianist, conductor and electronic musician.

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Stern Conservatory

The Stern Conservatory (Stern'sches Konservatorium) was a private music school in Berlin with many notable tutors and alumni.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Transcendental Études

The Transcendental Études (Études d'exécution transcendante), S.139, are a series of twelve compositions for solo piano by Franz Liszt.

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University of Chile

The University of Chile (Universidad de Chile) is a public university located in Santiago, Chile.

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University of Concepción

Universidad de Concepción, also known by its acronym UdeC, is a traditional Chilean private university, the work of the Penquista community, one of the most traditional and prestigious in its country, considered complex due to its extensive research in the various areas of knowledge.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Urtext edition

An urtext edition of a work of classical music is a printed version intended to reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material.

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Variations on a Theme of Paganini

Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, is a work for piano composed in 1863 by Johannes Brahms, based on the Caprice No. 24 in A minor by Niccolò Paganini.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).

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Virtuoso

A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso or, "virtuous", Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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20th-century classical music

20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Arrau

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