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Pianist Leon Fleisher, Forced
Felix Blumenfeld was born in 1863 and died in 1931.
The Etude in A-flat is Op. 36.
The CD is cataloged as Sony Classical SK 48081.
Pianist Leon Fleisher, forced to abandon his two-handed piano career years ago after sustaining damage to his right hand, recently has devoted an entire CD to works for the left-hand alone, mostly by composers also affected by hand problems. We'll hear Fleisher play an Etude in A-flat, Op. 36, by Russian composer Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931), one of Vladimir Horowitz's teachers. Blumenfeld was paralyzed on one side of his body but still continued to perform. (Sony Classical SK 48081)
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