Martha argerich charles dutoit biography

 “Audiences are never important to me now and they never were”

~ Martha Argerich, legendary Argentine concert pianist

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She is the only concert pianist capable of setting her own conditions with the most powerful music recording companies and concert halls in the world.

She is temperamental, unpredictable and cancellation of her concerts are equally possible as they are unforeseeable.

Her technique  is widely considered the most formidable of her generation. Her sense of style fuels imaginative performances of great piano concertos as varied as Chopin to those of Prokofiev and Bartok. Her originality gives the harshest of critics no choice but to draw comparison with Horowitz, Rubinstein and Richter.

She appears fragile at heart, fearing solitude and death.

Yet, she is widely recognized to be one of the greatest concert pianists of the second half of the twentieth century.

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