Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's first performance of Grieg's piano concerto in his Turin début on 2 February 1940.

A letter (dated 22 June 1942) from Ildebrando Pizzetti [1880-1968] to the publisher Ricordi: Vi interesserà sapere, credo, che anche il pianista Benedetti Michelangeli intende studiare ed eseguire i Canti della Stagione Alta. Per lui scriverò due nuove «cadenze». 'You will be interested to know, I believe, that pianist Benedetti Michelangeli also intends to study and perform the Canti della Stagione Alta (1930). I will write two new "cadenzas" for him.' ​ The concerto was de

Olaszországban feltünt az "uj Liszt Ferenc" Pesti Hírlap 1 September 1940 'The "new Liszt Ferenc" appeared in Italy. At the beginning of the summer, a report appeared in the Pesti Hirlap about the musical events of the festive games in Florence. The writer of the report, Countess Ceruttiné Paulay Erzsi (gróf Ceruttiné Paulay Erzsi, a Hugrarian actress married to Italian ambassador Count Vittorio Cerrutti) dedicated extremely warm lines to the praise of an 18-year-old Italian

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Argentina, July/August 1949. I recently sat in the great Teatro Colón, an opera house I'd long wanted to visit, a few weeks ago (September 2025): this was for a concert performance of Bellini's "I Puritani". I couldn't get the final cabaletta [“Ah! sento al mio bell’angelo”] of Elvira out of my head and have been listening to the fabulous Dame Joan Sutherland singing it ever since. (The opera premiere took place on 24 January 1835 in Paris.

On 5 February 1941, L'Avvenire d'Italia reported on a recital in the Liceo Musicale, Bologna: 'Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli undoubtedly possesses a privileged nature. In him, virtuosity blends with temperament and the refinement of an acute and remarkably responsive sensitivity. His technique is extremely solid, rational, logical, complete, and constructive; governed by an inner control that elevates it to artistic thought and will. His sound can be, depending on the case, v

Michelangeli in Buenos Aires 1949 La Nación, 29 July, 1949 After several postponements due to illness, the Italian concert pianist Arturo Michelangeli made his début before our public yesterday (Thursday 28th), offering his first piano recital at the Teatro Colón. This instrumentalist had been preceded by complimentary comments from European critics, which were justified at yesterday's performance, since there is no doubt that Michelangeli is a keyboard performer of notable m