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  • February 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist who was a popular contemporary instrumental performer. Best known for his solo piano recordings ...
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  • 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first half of the nineteenth century ...
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  • 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown ...
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  • ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist ... He began to tour again as a pianist in the late 1850s, before settling ...
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  • Frédéric Chopin was a great Polish composer and pianist of the Romantic era. Although during his life he spent much of his time in the Paris ...
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  • Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist from the swing era. His sophisticated ...
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  • February 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist who was a popular contemporary instrumental performer. Winston's musical style has been ...
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  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own ...
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  • Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one ...
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  • strong musical personality of its leader, pianist John Lewis, the extraordinary ... with swing and creativity. Whiteman’s pianist Frank Signorelli and violinist ...
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  • John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...
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  • Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was an extremely prolific German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher ...
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  • | Occupation = Pianist | Years_active = | Label = Blue ... of bebop, and his virtuosity as a pianist led many to call him "the ...
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  • his Italian–German mother was a pianist, his Italian father, a clarinetist ... 1891 to 1894 where he also toured as a virtuoso pianist. ...
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  • A gifted concert pianist, Adams chose a career in photography after ... He originally trained himself as a pianist, but Yosemite and the camera ...
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  • and flowing melody in the fifth finger of the pianist's right hand, over a background of rapid pedaled arpeggios. One of Sergei Lyapunov's ...
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  • Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843 – September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best ...
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  • Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso jazz pianist, bandleader, and songwriter ...
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  • Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of ...
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  • for his elegance, was a major African American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, who played a decisive role in the development of big band ...
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