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Cult of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Sep 25
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"In character he was sad, melancholic. His greatest hate was of the adulation of his followers."


(Noretta Conci, former student, assistant to and friend of ABM, speaking on BBC Radio 3 in June 1996) 

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Here are some of the more extravagant comments I’ve read online.


  • Anyone who was lucky enough to attend this live concert can consider themselves among the luckiest people in the history of humanity.

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  • Stratospheric, apocalyptic, indescribable. And to think that what we hear on YouTube is only 0.01% of all that art put together. I can't even imagine what it was like live!! I envy those who were sitting in those seats. I wonder if they realized what a miracle they were witnessing.


  • Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Silence plays God himself! Harmony of the spheres, sublime emotion in every moment of Liszt's piece, a languid dream for eternity. Beyond this there is no possibility!


  • His precision is almost surreal, and his approach is nearly "draconian." There was no "cinematic effect," just the hands moving and composing from another world

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