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Kiew, September 18, 1903 – New-York, November 5, 1989)

Vladimir Horowitz was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now the capital of Ukraine). There are unsubstantiated claims that Horowitz was born in Berdychiv (a city near Zhytomyr in Ukraine), but his birth certificate unequivocally states Kiev as his birthplace.

Horowitz was the youngest of four children of Samuil Horowitz and Sophia Bodik, who were assimilated Jews. Samuil was a well-to-do electrical engineer and a distributor of electric motors for German manufacturers. Horowitz was born in 1903, but in order to make him appear too young for military service so as not to risk damaging his hands, his father took a year off his son’s age by claiming he was born in 1904. The 1904 date appeared in many reference works during the pianist’s lifetime.

Horowitz’s uncle Alexander was a pupil and close friend of Alexander Scriabin. When Horowitz was 10, it was arranged for him to play for Scriabin, who told his parents that he was extremely talented.

Horowitz received piano instruction from an early age, initially from his mother, who was herself a pianist. In 1912 he entered the Kiev Conservatory, where he was taught by Vladimir Puchalsky, Sergei Tarnowsky, and Felix Blumenfeld. His first solo recital was in Kharkiv in 1920.

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Wang, Piano

Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It is in the key of G minor. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Scherzo

Chopin – Scherzo No. 2 – Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B-Flat minor, op. 31, was composed and published in 1837, and was dedicated to Countess Adèle Fürstenstein. Schumann compared this scherzo from Frédéric Chopin to a Byronic poem.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Rhapsody

Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 – Horowitz, Piano

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-Flat Major is the sixth work of the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies composed by Franz Liszt. This piece was later arranged for orchestra. In its original piano version, it is famous for its very fast octaves in the last part.

Chopin - Ballade No. 3 - Horowitz, Piano

Ballade / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Chopin – Ballade No. 3 – Vladimir Horowitz, 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.

Brahms - Concerto No. 2 - Horowitz, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Horowitz, Piano

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83, by Johannes Brahms is separated by a gap of 22 years from his first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near Vienna.

Scarlatti - Sonata K. 87 - Horowitz, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K 87 – Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K 87 in B Minor was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Ballade / Piano

Chopin – Ballade No. 4 – Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52, was composed in 1842 in Paris and Nohant and revised in 1843. The work was dedicated to Baroness Rothschild, wife of Nathaniel de Rothschild.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Rhapsody

Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 – Horowitz, Piano

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, and is by far the most famous of the set. Liszt was strongly influenced by Hungarian folk music, with its unique gypsy scale.

Chopin - Polonaise Heroic No. 6 - Horowitz, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Polonaise

Polonaise Héroïque No. 6 (Chopin) – Vladimir Horowitz

The Polonaise No 6 in A-flat major, Op. 53 was called Polonaise Héroïque (heroic) in french) by Frédéric Chopin’s French lover, the writer Georges Sand. This composition is one of Chopin’s most admired and has long been a favorite of the classical piano repertoire.

Prokofiev - Sonata No. 7 - Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Piano Sonata No. 7 (Precipitato) – Horowitz, Piano

Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 (1942) (occasionally called the “Stalingrad”) is the second of the three “War Sonatas” written by Sergei Prokofiev. The sonata was first performed on 18 January 1943 in Moscow by Sviatoslav Richter.

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