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Maria João Pires
12+ albums
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Maria João Pires (born in Lisbon, Portugal, July 23, 1944) is a renowned Portuguese pianist who currently lives in Brazil. Her first recital was at age five, and at age seven she was already playing Mozart Piano Concertos publicly. Two years later, she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians. In the following years, she studied with Professor Campos Coelho at the Lisbon Conservatory, taking courses in composition, theory, and history of music. She continued her studies in Germany, first in the Musikakademie of Munich with Rosl Schmidt and then in Hanover with Karl Engel. International fame came in 1970, when she won the Beethoven Bicentennial Competition in Brussels. She has since then regularly performed with major orchestras throughout the world, interpreting works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and many other classical and romantic composers. She appears regularly with major world orchestras in Europe, America, Canada, Israel and Japan. She appears as a solo artist and in chamber music: her many successful recordings include Moonlight, featuring Beethoven sonatas, Le Voyage Magnifique, the complete Impromptus of Schubert, Nocturnes and other works by Chopin, and Mozart Trios with Augustin Dumay (violin) and Jiang Wang (cello). She won the Pessoa Prize in 1989. She also founded the Belgais Centre for Study of the Arts. Gramophone (magazine) selected her recordings of the Chopin Nocturnes as the best version available: "I have n
top songs
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Sonata No. 16 in B Flat Major, II. Adagio
8,5802Sonata No. 15 in C Major, I. Allegro
5,5373Sonata No. 15 in C Major, II. Andante
4,7694Sonata No. 15 in C Major, III. Rondo
3,8405Kinderszenen Op.15 : I Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
3,6926Kinderszenen Op.15 : VII Träumerei
1,8887Schumann : Kinderszenen Op.15 : VII Träumerei
1,6988Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: II. Romanze - Larghetto
1,4609Morrer De Ingratidão
1,37410Chopin: Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 No.2
1,365albums
Mozart: Piano Sonata Selection
Schumann : Kinderszenen, Waldszenen & Bunte Blätter
Complete Solo Recordings
Chopin: The Nocturnes
Schubert : Sonate N° 11, Impromptus N° 3 & 4 Op. 90
Chopin Complete Edition
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Chopin Masterworks Volume 1
Mozart: Piano Sonatas
Portrait of the Artist - Maria João Pires "With Passion"
Bach, J.S.: Partita No. 1; English Suite No. 3; French Suite No. 2
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111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon
Chopin