Maurizio Pollini<\/a>, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died. He was 82.<\/p>\n\n\tPollini died on Saturday (March 23), La Scala said in a statement. The announcement didn\u2019t specify a cause of death, but Pollini had been forced to cancel a concert at the Salzburg Festival in 2022 because of heart problems.<\/p>\n
\n\tDuring a six decades-long international career, Pollini\u2019s repertoire expanded beyond the standard classics. He embraced early 20th-century masterpieces by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and postwar modernists such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez and Luigi Nono.<\/p>\n
\n\tLa Scala defined the pianist as \u201cone of the great musicians of our time and a fundamental reference in the artistic life of the theater for over 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tPollini was considered a pianist with unique intellectual power, whose unrivaled technique and interpretive drive compelled listeners to think deeply.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe was born in Milan on Jan. 5, 1942, into a family of artists. His father, Gino Pollini, was a violinist and a leading rationalist architect. His mother, Renata Melotti, sang and played the piano, as did her brother, Fausto Melotti, who was also a pioneer of abstract sculpture.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI grew up in a house with art and artists,\u201d Pollini said in an interview. \u201cOld works and modern works coexisted together as part of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tPollini began giving concerts before his 10th birthday, performing Chopin\u2019s Etudes at age 14 and then winning the International Chopin Piano Competition at 18, as the youngest foreign pianist among a group of 89 contestants.<\/p>\n
\n\tArthur Rubinstein, president of the jury, reportedly said that the young pianist \u201calready plays better than any of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter his first international recognition, however, Pollini put his career on hold to study, explaining that performing right away would have been for him \u201ca little premature.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI wanted to study, get to know the repertoire better, play the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the late 1960s, Pollini participated in improvised concerts in factories and programs for students and workers at La Scala, conducted by longtime friend Claudio Abbado.<\/p>\n
\n\tDuring his long international career, he also collaborated with other famous conductors, including Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Chailly.<\/p>\n
\n\tPollini performed his first American tour in 1968. From the 1970s to the \u201890s, he made a series of recordings with the Deutsche Grammophon label, becoming a celebrated interpreter of classics like Beethoven, Schumann and Schubert.<\/p>\n
\n\tHis albums won several awards, including a Grammy in 2007 for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for Chopin: Nocturnes.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe is survived by his wife Marilisa, and his son Daniele, also an acclaimed pianist and conductor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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