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Anatol Ugorski
12+ albums
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Anatol Ugorski was the fourth-born child of five siblings. In 1945, the Ugorski family moved to Leningrad, where six years later, he went to the conservatory which included an affiliated special music school, although he did not specialize in any instrument. After finishing school in 1960, he studied piano at the Leningrad Conservatory with Nadezhda Golubowskaja. Before graduation, he went through many works by premier (and often controversial) composers, such as Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Olivier Messiaen, and Pierre Boulez. During the time he lived in Leningrad, he played a guest performance of a piece by Pierre Boulez in autumn of 1968 (shortly after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact in Prague) and was met with demonstratively enthusiastic applause, after which he was classified as politically unreliable and prevented from continuing his career. Anatol Ugorski then spent more than ten years as a piano accompanist for concerts by the Young Pioneers choir, with which he toured the entire former Soviet Union. The fact that, with his virtuoso talent, he could become a prominent soloist in just a few concerts under Soviet rule was proof that soon he would have to develop his individual talent in secret, however, given the political climate of the time. His artistic reputation led to him being appointed to a professorship at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1982. In the summer of 1990, Anatol Ugorski fled to Berlin with his wife and child, after his sixteen year-old daughter, D
top songs
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Thème Varié (Live)
4,5192Beethoven: Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 -"Für Elise" - Poco moto
9073Fugue in A minor
6764Galop Marquis
5145Beethoven: Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"
4796Bagatelle "Für Elise" in A minor, WoO 59: Poco moto
4527Chopin: Largo In E Flat, Op. Posth.
4338Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59 -"Für Elise": Poco Moto
4209Bagatelles op. 126 No. 2 in G minor: Allegro
37810Chopin: Impromptu #4 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 66, CT 46, "Fantaisie-Impromptu"
361albums
Chopin Complete Edition
Love's Dream - Romantic Piano Music
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Rarities of Piano Music 2004: Live Recordings From the Husum Festival
Ugorski: Short Stories
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Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 6: Piano Works
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Chopin: Polonaises; Andante spianato;Minor Works
100 Meisterwerke der Klassik
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Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre de la musique classique
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32, Op.111; Bagatelles
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Für Elise: Romantic Piano Pieces
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Brahms: Complete Edition
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Für Elise - Romantic Piano Pieces