Alicia de Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on May 23rd, 1923 and is the Pianist. At the age of 86, Alicia de Larrocha biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle (23 May 1923 – 25 September 2009) was a Spanish pianist and composer.
She was considered one of the great piano legends of the 20th century.
Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", Time "one of the world's most outstanding pianists" and The Guardian "the leading Spanish pianist of her time".She won multiple Grammy Awards and a Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.
She is credited with bringing greater popularity to the compositions of Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados.
In 1995, she became the first Spanish artist to win the UNESCO Prize.
Life and career
Alicia de Larrocha was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At the age of three, she began studying piano with Frank Marshall. Both her parents were pianists and she was also the niece of pianists. At the International Exposition in Barcelona, she gave her first public performance at the age of five. She appeared at the World's Fair in Seville at the age of six and made her orchestral debut at the age of 11. Her appearances in Spain were already selling out by 1943. In 1947, she began traveling around the world and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1954, she toured North America. De Larrocha performed in Boston in 1966 during her first tour of Southern Africa, which became so popular that three more tours were created.
"Started composing at age seven and continued on and off until her 30th year, with a regular surge in her late teens," De Larrocha writes, and although she never did her work in public, she gave her family the freedom to publish them after she died.
De Larrocha has released many recordings of the solo piano repertoire, as well as the works of composers from her native Spain. Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Federico Mompou, and Isaac Albéniz's recordings, as well as Antonio Soler's keyboard sonatas, are among her highlights. She appeared on Hispavox, CBS/Columbia/Epic, BMG/RCA, and London/Decca, winning her first Grammy Award in 1975 and her last one in 1992 at the age of almost seventy. In 1994, she was given the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.
In 1978, De Larrocha appeared in a 1978 interview with Contemporary Keyboard, a newspaper published in the United States.
Despite being less than five foot tall and with poor hands for a pianist for a tenth of a tenth on the keyboard, she was still able to tackle all the major concertos (all five by Beethoven, Liszt's No. 2). No. 1, Brahms' No. 1st. Nose 2 by Rachmaninoff. Both Ravel's, Prokofiev, Bartók, Bliss, and Khachaturian's, as well as the numerous spans demanded by Granados, Albéniz, and de Falla's music were demanded by the music of Granados, Albéniz and de Falla. She had a "long fifth finger" and a "wide gap between thumb and index finger" that improved her technical skills.
"She made her first recordings of Chopin at the age of 9, her feet not yet able to reach the pedals," Chopin said, "She was deemed as a great interpreter of Chopin."
As she got older, she began to perform a new style of music; more Mozart and Beethoven were included in her recitals, and she became a regular visitor to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York's "Mostly Mozart Festival." She was named Honorary Member of the Foundation for Iberian Music at The City University of New York in 2001. Following a 76-year career, De Larrocha retired from public life in October 2003, aged 80.
Alicia de Larrocha died in Quiron Hospital, Barcelona, on September 25, 2009, at the age of 86. Since breaking her hip five years earlier, she had been in decline. Juan Torra, her husband, with whom she had two children, died in 1982.