“Interesting pianist, but I think he is just a little bit meshuga.”

— Vladimir Horowitz

On Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music

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American classical pianist and composer 1903–1989

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