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Ricardo chailly martha argerich biography


Piano virtuoso Martha Argerich achieved this status immediately after triumphing at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1957, at just 16 years old!

Born in Argentina, she won the Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Poland in 1965....

In Plain Sound

Martha Argerich (b.1941) is, according to many, one of the best, if not the best, pianist of the last 100 years.

There is at least one living pianist, however, who would disagree – Martha Argerich.

“Some people say that you are the greatest pianist in this century,” a Japanese journalist says to her during a 1999 interview.

“No, no,” she replies.

“Do you know of Dr. Freud?

This article takes Argerich's performances as invitations to look back toward the tradition of feminine virtuosity to which she belongs.

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    Argerich didn’t say that, of course; Rose Dewitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) did in Titanic, a movie which I may have watched too many times.

    But Argerich’s actual response to the journalist - “No, no. That’s nonsense, I’m sorry, really, it’s nonsense,” – did echo Rose’s disdain for Titanic’s name which essentially labeled it the “greatest” ship ever. But I saw your name listed first in a German record company’s catalog, the journalist replies to Argerich.

    Because my name begins with A, she interrupts, l