14 Facts About Maurizio Pollini

Maurizio Pollini was born on 5 January 1942 and is an Italian pianist.

Maurizio Pollini is known for performances of compositions by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy, among others.

Maurizio Pollini has championed and performed works by contemporary composers such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Benjamin, Roberto Carnevale, Gianluca Cascioli and Bruno Maderna.

Maurizio Pollini was born in Milan to the Italian rationalist architect Gino Maurizio Pollini, who has been said to be the first to bring Modernist architecture to Italy in the 1930s, and his wife Renata Melotti .

Maurizio Pollini studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18.

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Maurizio Pollini received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won both the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition in Seregno in 1959 and the VI International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960.

Maurizio Pollini made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974.

In March 2012 it was announced that Maurizio Pollini had cancelled all his forthcoming appearances in the US for health reasons.

However, in his interviews, Maurizio Pollini has stated that throughout his career his concern has been to express the composer as accurately as possible.

Maurizio Pollini collaborated with Luigi Nono in such works as Como una ola de fuerza y luz, which was to mourn the accidental death of Luciano Cruz, a leader of the Chilean Revolutionary Front.

Maurizio Pollini performed with Claudio Abbado at La Scala in a cycle of concerts for students and workers, in an attempt to build a new public as they believed that art should be for everybody.

At least one of Maurizio Pollini's recitals was beset by audience unrest and concluded upon police intervention when he mentioned Vietnam.

Maurizio Pollini has said that he now questions the way left-wing activists operated in Italy, although he still identifies with the left.

In 2007, Maurizio Pollini received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Chopin nocturnes.