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Ferruccio Busoni
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Leopold Godowsky
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Alfred Cortot
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Ignaz Friedman
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Born to an itinerant Jewish musician in Podgórze near Kraków, Ignaz Friedman was a child prodigy. He studied with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig a… read moreBorn to an itinerant Jewish musician in Podgórze near Kraków, Ignaz Friedman was a child prodigy. He studied with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna, and participated in Ferruccio Busoni's masterclasses. Fried… read moreBorn to an itinerant Jewish musician in Podgórze near Kraków, Ignaz Friedman was a child prodigy. He studied with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna, and participated in Ferruccio Busoni's masterclasses. Friedman lived in Berlin until 1914 and settled in Copenhagen in … read more
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Shura Cherkassky
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Николай Карлович Метнер
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Myra Hess
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Ferdinand Ries
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Giovanni Paisiello
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