Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

On January 5, 2020, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli would have turned one hundred years old. This is the occasion for this volume, which examines the characteristics of Michelangeli's art, presents his work as a teacher, shows him at work on his recordings and provides interesting facts about his involvement with problems of piano mechanics.
Benedetti Michelangeli was not wrongly called "a pianist for pianists". As much as he was revered and celebrated by a wide audience, much of what was unique about his playing can only be fully appreciated when analyzed by an expert. For this publication, several pianists have come together to paint a picture of the great Italian's art in interviews and to make the special features of his playing comprehensible to a wider circle of interested parties.
One of the guiding questions was what can be learned from Benedetti Michelangeli. Bernd Goetzke, a long-time pupil of the artist, provides information about the lessons as competently as Cord Garben, Michelangeli's producer at the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, about two decades of recording work. Edmund W. Böckenholt, long-time factory manager at Steinway & Sons in Hamburg, provides insights into the technical aspects of piano making that resulted from his collaboration with the artist.
These conversations are framed by an introductory chapter by Jochen Köhler, who situates Michelangeli's art in the history of piano playing in the 20th century on the basis of a clarification of fundamental questions of interpretation. The volume concludes with an essay by Tihomir Popovic - a tribute to the Italian master pianist.

2nd edition, September 2020

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