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The Horowitz Story, Or What Makes a Pianist; Patience, perfectionism and 'personality' would seem to be the formula for greatness. Horowitz Story Share full article By Howard Taubmam Oct. 17, 1948 The ...

No pianist of our time has had a more curious history than Vladimir Horowitz. After a brief but brilliant career in Europe he made his American debut in 1928 at the age of twenty-four. It was no easy ...

[Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Polka de V.R.] Peter Gelb: What Horowitz did was he selected a program that enabled him to reserve what he used to call the 'pyrotechnics.' That was his name for it, for ...

We have a special guest, a piano that belonged to the late Vladimir Horowitz. The pianist enjoyed a level of worldwide fame few classical musicians achieve, and in his later years, he took his own ...

[Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Prelude Op. 32 No. 12] He had, you know, very close relations spiritually and personally with Rachmaninov. For example, one of the stories that Horowitz used to tell me, ...

Sony has just released a new live CD featuring the great Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz, calling it The Legendary Berlin Concert, 18th May, 1986. My first question upon receiving it was “why did ...

The death of Vladimir Horowitz in November at the age of eighty-five was more than the passing of one of the greatest pianists the world has yet known. In a way that can only become clearer as the ...

Vladimir Horowitz's Steinway Piano is currently stored at the Steinway Piano Gallery of Detroit, but travels all around the United States. (Photo courtesy of Wilbur Miller ) Vladimir Horowitz, a ...