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Liberace!...not the straightest or the least glittery, but the best
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August Rush
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For me that would be Beethoven!
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Richter... or Maria Joao Pires? It's hard to choose...
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... another vote for either Chopin or Rachmaninov ...
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Rachmaninov for technical ability and grat huge capable hands. And Chopin for writing such dynamic compositions that stir the soul.
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The best piano player I heard was Vladimir Horowitz. Dinu Lipattu I only know from recordings, but they sound very impressive. Then there are a few other great ones: Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Friedrich Gulda for instance. A young and very promising pianist is Martin Stadtfeld. Composers who wrote great music for piano are Bach - His Well Tempered Clavier is a must (even is the piano as we know it today wasn't even invented at his time) Beethoven Schubert Liszt Schumann Skrjabin Chopin
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I'm going to have to go with Franz Liszt. Outside of the fact that he was quite the virtuoso pianist, he was the first to prove that a piano can be a stand-alone instrument.
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Either Chopin or Lizt
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Anyone ever heard of Art Tatum? Clearly Art is the KING!
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The greatest pianist of all time, who has the creditials to prove it, is Frederic Chopin, hands down! There are others who are excellent, but the amount of books of compositions he wrote and could play are enormous! There is no other pianist with this kind of record. Not even Liszt! If you can also compare the theory in the compositions, it shows it!
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Glenn Gould
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I haven't heard enough of the other pianists to say that I think he's the greatest of all time, but my favorite is Oscar Peterson:
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