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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Nocturne op.27 no.2 play Maurizio Pollini was born in Milan, his father being the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won both the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition in Seregno (Italy) in 1959 and the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960. Arthur Rubinstein who led the jury declared Pollini the winner of the competition, saying: "that boy can play the piano better than any of us" Soon afterward he studied with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Pollini Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spanish pronunciation: ['paβlo řu'jθ pi'kasso]; 25 October 1881 -- 8 April 1973) was a Spanish-born painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Created by ForeverIsis http://www.youtube.com/user/cuoylyf