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Dan Grigore was born on 6 August, 1943 in Bucharest, Romania, is a Romanian classical pianist. Discover Dan Grigore's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Occupation Pianist
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 6 August, 1943
Birthday 6 August
Birthplace Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Romania

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1943

Dan Grigore (born 6 August 1943) is a Romanian classical pianist.

He is regarded as one of the great pianists of the twentieth century, as well as one of the four greatest Romanian pianists of all time (along with Clara Haskil, Dinu Lipatti, and Radu Lupu).

Dan Grigore was born in 1943 in Bucharest, Romania.

His father, Nicolae Grigore, was a fighter pilot in the Romanian Air Force and a World War II hero (subsequently promoted to general); one street in Bucharest is named after him.

His mother, Polixenia (née Cosîmbescu) was a housewife.

Grigore took his first music lessons with his mother, who had studied violin in her teens.

At the age of three, he began to play his own compositions.

1944

Around 1955, Grigore's family was in deep financial trouble following the Soviet occupation of Romania (August 23, 1944).

1946

After the Romanian Communist Party's rise to power (by frauding the 1946 general elections) and the forced abdication at gunpoint of King Michael I of Romania, Grigore's father had been stripped of all his military decorations and dismissed from the army during the great Communist purge of the 1950s.

Also, Grigore's maternal grandfather had been sent to prison and lost his pension for sending a letter to the American Embassy in which he had described the abuses of the Communist regime.

1949

In 1949, at six, he started private piano lessons with Eugenia Ionescu, a famous teacher of her time who had studied at Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller and Max Reger.

She immediately realized that the child had absolute pitch.

Eugenia Ionescu used to hold musical soirees in her home, where she would invite famous pianists and teachers of the time to listen to him, including Florica Musicescu, Cella Delavrancea, Constanța Erbiceanu, Muza Ciomac, Silvia Șerbescu, Nadia Chebap, and Madeleine Cocorăscu, among others.

It soon became clear that Grigore was a child prodigy.

It was during these musical soirees that Dan Grigore was discovered by the famous composer and professor Mihail Jora (member of the Romanian Academy), a close friend of George Enescu and former teacher of Dinu Lipatti.

1955

Given the family's hardship and the child's unusual talent, Mihail Jora (although in financial trouble himself due to similar political reasons) generously offered to give Grigore private lessons free of charge, which he did for the next seven years (between 1955-1962).

Jora had great admiration for his young student.

In a reference sent to the Ministry of Culture, he stated, "Dan Grigore is an exceptional talent which all the so-called 'great Romanian talents' bear no comparison to".

This resulted in a special scholarship (1955-1958) awarded by the Romanian Composers' Association.

1957

In 1957, the fourteen-year-old Grigore made his first appearance on stage with three recently discovered works of George Enescu in first world audition (Chorale, Burlesque, and Carillon nocturne from the Piano Suite no. 3 Pièces impromptues, Op. 18).

1958

Between 1958-1962 Dan Grigore also studied with the famous professor Florica Musicescu, former teacher of Dinu Lipatti.

During this time, he received a special scholarship from George Enescu's widow, Princess Maria Cantacuzino, who granted him personal use of the great composer's piano for five years.

1962

In 1962, on the recommendation of his two mentors, Florica Musicescu and Mihail Jora, Grigore was awarded a five-year scholarship at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (Prof. Tatiana Kravchenko).

The close encounter with the Russian music, literature, and society proved crucial for the young pianist.

It was also during this time that he first attended live performances of Sviatoslav Richter, Aldo Ciccolini, and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

1964

However, the personality clash with Kravchenko (despite his excellent student record), combined with the extremely poor living conditions in the student facilities of the Soviet Union (extreme cold, lack of hot running water, poor food, disease, and lack of private access to a piano) ultimately made him drop the five-year scholarship after completing the first two years in 1964.

1967

He received full scholarship and transferred (as a third-year student) to the Bucharest Conservatory, from which he graduated first in his class in 1967.

1968

In 1968, the famous professor and conductor Nadia Boulanger offered Grigore a full scholarship at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, which was denied by the Romanian Communist regime.

1969

In 1969, Jora won the Herder Prize and nominated Grigore for the Herder one-year scholarship at the Vienna Academy of Music (under the supervision of the revered professor Richard Hauser).

1970

Hauser was so impressed with the young pianist that in 1970 he attempted to secure a one-year extension for Grigore's scholarship.

The project never came to fruitition because of Hauser's death.