„Es gibt drei Arten von Pianisten: jüdische Pianisten, homosexuelle Pianisten -- und schlechte Pianisten.“
— Vladimir Horowitz
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Vladimir Horowitz
Geburtstag: 1. Oktober 1903
Todesdatum: 5. November 1989
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Vladimir Horowitz war ein russischer Pianist jüdischer Herkunft. Seit 1944 war er US-amerikanischer Staatsbürger.
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„I was impressed mostly by Gieseking [Horowitz said in 1987]. He had a finished style, played with elegance, and had a fine musical mind.“
— Vladimir Horowitz
quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music
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„I liked him [Arthur Rubinstein] as a pianist. He was a good musician and had a fantastic repertoire. He never had a great technique, but certain things he played well. I heard him play some of the Chopin etudes, the easier ones with great panache and I told him I had never heard them played better. He said, "Do you mean it?" and I said, "Yes, I do mean it."“
— Vladimir Horowitz
quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music
„I heard Edwin Fischer, who did not mean much to me. I heard another pianist in Berlin who had a big success and I thought he was awful — Mischa Levitzki. Just fingers, and you cannot listen only to fingers. There is a difference between artist and artisan. Levitzki was an artisan. But Ignaz Friedman, who I admired, was a great artist. He had wonderful fingers and a very personal, individual way of playing, even if some of his ideas were very strange to me. He had no hesitation touching up the music. I got annoyed with him at one concert when he changed the basses in Chopin's F minor Ballade. I didn't like that. For some reason he was happier making records than he was on the stage.“
— Vladimir Horowitz
quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music
„Interesting pianist, but I think he is just a little bit meshuga.“
— Vladimir Horowitz
On Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music
„Of the Russian pianists I like only one, Richter. Gilels did some things well, but I did not like his mannerisms, the way he moved around while he was playing.“
— Vladimir Horowitz
quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music
