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Martha Argerich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her paternal ancestors were Catalans based in Buenos Aires since the 18th century. Her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, who settled in Colonia Villa Clara in the Entre Ríos province. The provenance of the name Argerich is Catalonia, Spain.

Martha Argerich started playing the piano at age three. At the age of five, she moved to teacher Vincenzo Scaramuzza, who stressed to her the importance of lyricism and feeling. Argerich gave her debut concert in 1949 at the age of eight.

The family moved to Europe in 1955, where Argerich studied with Friedrich Gulda in Austria. Juan Perón, then the president of Argentina, made their decision possible by appointing her parents to diplomatic posts in the Argentine Embassy in Vienna. She later studied with Stefan Askenase and Maria Curcio. Argerich also seized opportunities for brief periods of coaching with Madeleine Lipatti (widow of Dinu Lipatti), Abbey Simon, and Nikita Magaloff.

Chopin - Mazurka in C major Op. 24 No. 2 - Argerich, Piano

Chopin – Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2 – Argerich, Piano

Mazurkas, Op 24 are a set of four Mazurkas for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin. The set was composed and published in 1836. Mazurka in C major is essentially a kind of folkloric cliché: a folk provenance can be found in all its themes.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Polonaise

Chopin – Grande Polonaise Brillante – Argerich, Piano

In 1834, Frédéric Chopin wrote an Andante Spianato in G Major, for piano solo, which he added to the start of the Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat Major and joined the two parts with a fanfare-like sequence.

The pianist Martha Argerich is playing Chopin's 3rd Ballade in A-flat major

Ballade / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Chopin – Ballade No. 3 – Martha Argerich, Piano

Chopin’s Ballade No 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47, dating from 1841, is dedicated to Pauline de Noailles. The inspiration for this Ballade by Frédéric Chopin is usually claimed to be Adam Mickiewicz’s poem Undine, also known as Świtezianka.

The Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D minor K 141

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata in D Minor – Martha Argerich, Piano

Scarlatti’s sonata in D minor K 141 is one of Martha Argerich’s favorite encore. There are many videos available on Youtube, both professional and amateur recordings.

Mozart - Concerto No. 20 - Argerich, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto

Mozart – Concerto No. 20 – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Casino in Vienna on 11 February 1785, with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the soloist.

Chopin - Sonata No 2 in B-Flat Minor - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Martha Argerich

Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, is a piano sonata in four movements. Frédéric Chopin completed the work while living in George Sand’s manor in Nohant, some 250 km (160 mi) south of Paris, a year before it was published in 1840.

Franck - Violin Sonata - Gitlis, Violin; Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata / Violin

Franck – Violin Sonata – Ivry Gitlis, Martha Argerich

The Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best-known compositions, and is considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written.

Martha Argerich plays La Leggereza, one of Franz Liszt's Three Concert Etudes for piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – La Leggierezza – Martha Argerich, Piano

La Leggierezza (meaning “lightness”) is the second from Franz Liszt’s Three Concert Etudes. It is a monothematic piece with a very simple melodic line for each hand under an unusual Quasi allegretto tempo marking, usually ignored in favour of something slightly more frenetic.

Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major - Argerich, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Ravel – Concerto in G Major – Martha Argerich, Piano

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto is in three movements and was deeply infused with jazz idioms and harmonies, which, at the time, were highly popular in Paris as well as the United States, where Ravel was traveling on a piano tour.

Schumann - Fantasiestucke: Des Abends, Aufschwung - Martha Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Fantasiestucke: Des Abends, Aufschwung – Argerich, Piano

Fantasiestücke, Op. 12, is a set of eight pieces for piano, written in 1837 by Robert Schumann and dedicated to Fräulein Anna Robena Laidlaw, an accomplished and attractive 18-year-old Scottish pianist with whom Schumann had become good friends.