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Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.

He was born in Milan, the son of the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960, after which he studied under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

Since the mid-1960s, he has given recitals and appeared with major orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974.

Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of our age, he is especially noted for his performances of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Important modern works were composed for Pollini, notably Nono’s …sofferte onde serene…, Giacomo Manzoni’s Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse and Salvatore Sciarrino’s fifth sonata. He displays an absolute technical sovereignty over the piano, but is sometimes criticized for his emotional conservatism. He has conducted both opera and orchestral music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in concertos.

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1		Nocturne No.5 in F sharp, Op.15 No.2 (2001 Digital Remaster)			41
2		Polonaise No.6 in A flat, Op.53 -"Heroic"			33
3		Polonaise No. 6 in A flat 'Heroic' Op. 53 (2001 Digital Remaster)			29
4		Nocturne in D flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 (2001 Digital Remaster)			25
4		Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (2001 Digital Remaster)			25
6		Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 (2001 Digital Remaster)			23
7		Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op.10 - No. 3. in E "Tristesse"			21
7		Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op.10 - No. 1. in C			21
9		Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op.10 - No. 2. in A minor "chromatique"			19
9		Nocturne No.4 in F, Op.15 No.1			19
11		Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op.10 - No. 4. in C sharp minor			18
12		Nocturne No.4 in F, Op.15 No.1 (2001 Digital Remaster)			17
13		Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op.10 - No. 5. in G flat "Black Keys"			15
14		Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op.10 - No. 6. in E flat minor			14
15		Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op.10 - No. 12. in C minor "Revolutionary"			13

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