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Lazar Berman was born on 26 February, 1930 in Leningrad, Soviet Union, is a Russian classical pianist (1930–2005). Discover Lazar Berman'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 74 years old?

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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 26 February, 1930
Birthday 26 February
Birthplace Leningrad, Soviet Union
Date of death February 6, 2005
Died Place Florence, Italy
Nationality Russia

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1930

Lazar Naumovich Berman (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."

Berman was born to Jewish parents in Saint Petersburg.

His mother, Anna Lazarevna Makhover, had played the piano herself until prevented by hearing problems.

She introduced her son to the piano at the age of two.

Berman entered his first competition at the age of three, and recorded a Mozart fantasia and a mazurka that he had composed himself at the age of seven, before he could even read music.

Berman was first noticed while participating in city young talents competition.

The jury under the chairmanship of Leonid Nikolaev noticed the child's "rare exceptional case of musical and piano skills".

Now, after being officially given title "prodigy" at the age of four, he started studying with Leningrad State Conservatory professor, Samariy Savshinsky.

1939

In 1939 when Berman was nine, the family moved to Moscow so that he could study with Aleksandr Goldenweiser, first at Central Musical School, and then at the Moscow Conservatory, where he graduated in 1953.

1940

In 1940, he made his formal debut playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.

1941

In 1941, students, pupils and parents were evacuated to Samara (then Kuybyshev), a city on the Volga, because of World War II.

Living conditions were so poor that his mother had to cut the fingers from a pair of gloves to allow him to continue to practise without freezing his hands.

He subsequently began to acquire international prominence.

At the age of 12 he played Franz Liszt's La campanella to a British audience over the radio.

1956

In 1956 became a laureate of two international piano competitions: Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, and the Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest, Hungary.

As a result of these accomplishments, Berman was offered an international tour, and landed a recording deal, which included recordings of Liszt's sonata and Beethoven's "Appassionata".

1958

In 1958, he performed in London and recorded for SAGA.

1959

From 1959 to 1971 Berman was not allowed to travel abroad due to his marriage to a French national (the marriage soon fell apart); however, he continued to tour around Soviet Union, and did some recordings at Melodia studio, including Liszt's Transcendental Études.

That recording became one of the first Soviet recordings done with the use of stereo technology.

1968

In 1968 he married Valentina Sedova and in 1970 their son, Pavel, was born.

1970

From the mid 1970s, Berman was again allowed to tour abroad, which he did to high acclaim.

His playing of Chopin is well documented, in both a concert film and a Deutsche Grammophon recording of the polonaises from the 1970s.

Most of his British appearances came in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

1975

Although he was known to international music aficionados who had heard the occasional recording on the Russian Melodiya record label, as well as those who visited the Soviet Union, he was not generally well known outside Russia before his 1975 American tour, organised by the impresario Jacques Leiser.

But after his 1975 tour, he was immediately in great demand, with Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, and CBS vying to record him.

1976

He recorded the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with Herbert von Karajan, as well as broadcasting it on international television with Antal Doráti, to mark United Nations Day in 1976.

In December 1976, he performed music by Sergei Prokofiev and Franz Liszt at the Royal Festival Hall.

1980

In 1980, at the height of his popularity, Berman again was barred from leaving Soviet Union.

This time it was because a book by an American writer (censored in the USSR) was found in his luggage while he was passing custom in Moscow's airport.

1990

In August 1990 Berman left USSR for Norway, followed by final relocation to Italy, where he became a teacher.

1992

His now legendary New York debut at the 92nd Street Y, where he played Liszt's Transcendental Études, struck the music world like lightning.

He became an overnight sensation.

Before that, he had been generally restricted to the Soviet concert circuit, playing on old and decrepit pianos to audiences of varied degrees of interest.

Invitations to tour outside the Soviet Union were ignored by the Soviet state concert agency, Gosconcert.

He lived in a tiny two-room apartment in Moscow, with a grand piano occupying an entire room.

2000

Four years later he became Italian citizen, and the following year he got invited to Musical School of Weimar, Germany, where he continued teaching until 2000.

He often performed along with his son, violinist Pavel Berman.

2005

Berman died in 2005, survived by his second wife, Valentina Sedova, also a pianist, and their son, talented violinist and conductor Pavel Berman.