Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti

Performer

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (5 January 1920 – 12 June 1995) was an Italian classical pianist. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. The music critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote of Benedetti Michelangeli: His fingers can no more hit a wrong note or smudge a passage than a bullet can be veered off course once it has been fired...The puzzling part about Michelangeli is that in many pieces of the romantic repertoire he seems unsure of himself emotionally, and his otherwise direct playing is then laden with expressive devices that disturb the musical flow. [source from Wikipedia]

Work

• Keyboard Sonata in D major, K. 96
• Keyboard Sonata in C major, K. 159
• Keyboard Sonata in A major, K. 322
• Piano Sonata No.4 in A minor, D. 537
• Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K. 415
• Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
• 4 Ballads, Op. 10
• 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35
• Artful Dodger of the Night, M. 55