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Pogorelić was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Pogorelić became a Croatian citizen.

He received his first piano lessons when he was seven and attended the Vojislav Vučković Music School in Belgrade until he was 12, when he was invited to Moscow to continue his studies at the Central Music School with Evgeny Timakin. He later graduated from the Moscow Conservatory.

In 1976 he began studying intensively with the Georgian pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, who passed on to him the tradition of the Liszt–Siloti school. They were married from 1980 until her death in 1996 from liver cancer.

Pogorelić won the Casagrande Competition in Terni, Italy, in 1978 and the Montreal International Musical Competition in 1980. In 1980 he entered the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and was eliminated in the third round. One of the adjudicators, Martha Argerich, proclaimed him a “genius” and resigned from the jury in protest.

Chopin – Prelude No 25 in C-Sharp Minor – Pogorelich, Piano

Chopin – Prelude No. 25 – Ivo Pogorelich, Piano

Chopin’s Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45 (sometimes listed as Prelude No. 25), was composed in 1841. It was dedicated to Princess E. Czernicheff (Elisaweta Tschernyschewa).

The pianist Ivo Pogorelich plays Bach's English Suite No. 2 in A minor

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Suite

Bach – English Suite No. 2 – Pogorelich, Piano

The English Suites, BWV 806–811, are a set of six suites written by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord (or clavichord) and generally thought to be the earliest of his 19 suites for keyboard.

Piano / BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K. 1 in D Minor – Pogorelich, Piano

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K. 1 in D minor was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

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

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Sonata No. 2 – Ivo Pogorelich, Piano

Chopin’s 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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Chopin – Etude Op. 25 No. 6 – Pogorelich, Piano

Étude Op. 25 No. 6, in G-sharp Minor, is a technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin focusing on thirds, trilling them at a high speed.

Ivo Pogorelich plays Beethoven's extremely famous piece "Fur Elise"

Piano / CLASSICAL MUSIC

Beethoven – Für Elise – Pogorelich, Piano

Bagatelle No 25 in A minor (WoO 59 and Bia 515) for solo piano, commonly known as Für Elise is one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most popular compositions. It was not published during his lifetime, only being discovered (by Ludwig Nohl) forty years after his death,