| 词条 | Alexis Weissenberg |
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Early life and careerBorn into a Jewish family in Sofia, Bulgaria, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov, a Bulgarian composer. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. In 1941, he and his mother tried to escape from German-occupied Bulgaria for Turkey, but were caught and imprisoned in a makeshift concentration camp in Bulgaria for three months. A German guard – who had enjoyed hearing Alexis play Schubert on the accordion – hurriedly took him and his mother to the train station, throwing the accordion to him through the window and told them, "Good luck". They safely arrived in Istanbul a day later.[3] In 1945, they emigrated to Palestine, where Weissenberg studied under Leo Kestenberg and performed Beethoven with the Israel Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. In 1946, Weissenberg went to the Juilliard School to study with Olga Samaroff. He also studied with Artur Schnabel and Wanda Landowska. In 1947, Weissenberg made his New York debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and George Szell in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and with Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy, with which Weissenberg won the Leventritt Competition. Between 1957 and 1965, he took an extended sabbatical for the purpose of studying and teaching. Weissenberg resumed his career in 1966 with a recital in Paris. Later that year he played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Berlin conducted by Herbert von Karajan, who praised him as "one of the best pianists of our time". Weissenberg gave piano master classes all over the world. With his Piano Master Class in Engelberg (Switzerland), he had as students many pianists of the new generation: Kirill Gerstein, Simon Mulligan, Mehmet Okonsar , Nazzareno Carusi, Andrey Ponochevny, Loris Karpell, and Roberto Carnevale among them. He composed piano music and a musical, Nostalgie, that was premiered at the State Theatre of Darmstadt on 17 October 1992. Weissenberg died on 8 January 2012 at the age of 82 in Lugano, Switzerland after suffering from Parkinson's Disease.[4] He was survived by three children, David, Cristina and Maria.[5] Recorded worksBryce Morrison, in "Gramophone", described his early 1970s recording of the Liszt Sonata in B minor as one of the most exciting and also lyrical renditions of the work.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} His readings of Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and many works by Frédéric Chopin (including his complete works for piano and orchestra, Piano Sonatas No. 2 & 3, nocturnes, and waltzes) are also very well known. Among his other notable interpretations were those of Johannes Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Carlo Maria Giulini and Riccardo Muti, ("Les Introuvables d'Alexis Weissenberg", 2004), Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as his Piano Concerto No. 3 with Georges Prêtre and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (also with Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestre National de France). His 1965 film recording of Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka (directed by Åke Falck) was also highly praised. When Karajan watched the movie, he immediately invited Weissenberg to participate in a filmed performance of the Tchaikovsky First Concerto, replacing Sviatoslav Richter.[6] Selected discographyAudio
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References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/music/alexis-weissenberg-pianist-of-fire-and-ice-dies-at-82.html|work=The New York Times|title=Alexis Weissenberg, Pianist of Fire and Ice, Dies at 82|date=January 9, 2012}} 2. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9005891/Alexis-Weissenberg.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Alexis Weissenberg | date=January 10, 2012}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alexis-weissenberg-20120110,0,2408863.story |title=Alexis Weissenberg obituary |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2012-01-10 |accessdate=2012-01-10}} 4. ^{{cite web| author=Margalit Fox | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/music/alexis-weissenberg-pianist-of-fire-and-ice-dies-at-82.html|title=Alexis Weissenberg, Pianist of Fire and Ice, Dies at 82|publisher=The New York Times| date=2012-01-09 |accessdate=2014-11-14}} 5. ^{{cite web | author=Barry Millington | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jan/12/classicalmusicandopera-sergei-rachmaninov | title=Alexis Weissenberg obituary | work=The Guardian | date=2012-01-12 | accessdate=2014-09-24}} 6. ^{{cite web | author=Sarah Kirkup | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/pianist-alexis-weissenberg-has-died | title=Pianist Alexis Weissenberg has died | work=Gramophone | date=2012-01-10 | accessdate=2015-01-09}} External links
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