Lazar Berman
Lazar Berman | |
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Lazar Berman in 1988 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lazar Berman |
| Born | February 26, 1930 Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| Died | February 6, 2005 (aged 74) Florence, Italy |
| Genres | Classical piano |
| Years active | 1935–2005 |
Lazar Naumovich Berman (Russian: Ла́зарь Нау́мович Бе́рман, Lazar Naumovich Berman; February 26, 1930 – February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world."