| Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1942. He spent the first ten years of his life there until moving to Israel with his family. His mother was his first piano teacher, and his father, who was his only piano teacher up to that moment, continued to teach him until his international breakthrough as a pianist. Daniel Barenboim made his first public appearance as a pianist at the age of 7 in Buenos Aires. Shortly thereafter, he assisted conducting classes with Igor Markevich in Salzburg and studied harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. While still in Argentina, both Artur Rubinstein and Adolf Busch made a huge impression on the young Barenboim. Later, Edwin Fischer and Wilhelm Furtwängler, whom he met in Salzburg, influenced the young artist considerably in his musical development. After having heard him play in 1954, Furtwängler wrote about him: "Daniel Barenboim is a phenomenon". When he was 10 years old, Daniel Barenboim gave his international début as a pianist in Vienna and Rome (1952), and then in Paris (1955) as the soloist of the Societé des Concerts du Conservatiore under the baton of André Cluytens. He then played in London in 1956 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Josef Krips, and finally appeared in New York in 1957, where, only 15 years old, he played with Leopold Stokowski. A little later he played the Berg Chamber Concerto and the Bartók Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez in Paris and Berlin. From that time on, he regularly toured Europe, the U.S.A. and South America as well as Australia and the Far East. | |
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