4-Album Box Set: Beethoven, Five Piano Concertos, Ashkenazy/Solti, 1973

Description: 4-Album Box Set: Beethoven, Five Piano Concertos, Ashkenazy/Solti, 1973 Four vinyl albums, each in their own original inner sleeves, in hinged cardboard box, with booklet. No visible flaws to the albums. Inner sleeves are also in VG condition. Booklet also in VG condition. Outer box in VG condition with very minor wear to corners. Vladimir Asjkenazy: Russian-born Icelandic conductor and pianist, born 6 July 1937 in Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). He has been a citizen of Iceland, the home of his wife Þórunn, since 1972. Father of Dimitri Ashkenazy and Vovka Ashkenazy. Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was born 21 October 1912 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) and died 5 September 1997 in Antibes, France. After the war, he was appointed musical director of the Bayerische Staatsoper in 1946. In 1952, he moved to the Frankfurter Opern- Und Museumsorchester, where he remained in charge for nine years. He took West German citizenship in 1953. In 1961, he became musical director of the Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He became British citizen in 1972. In 1969, he became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a post he held for 22 years.Beethoven: German composer and pianist, born in 1770 (baptized 17 December 1770) in Bonn, Germany and died 26 March 1827 in Vienna, Austria. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music. Beethoven led Viennese Classicism to its highest development and paved the way for Romantic music. Beethoven was the eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. He moved in 1792 to Vienna, where he had some lessons from Haydn and others, quickly establishing himself as a remarkable keyboard-player and original composer. By 1815 increasing deafness made public performance impossible and accentuated existing eccentricities of character, patiently tolerated by a series of rich patrons and his royal pupil the Archduke Rudolph. Beethoven did much to enlarge the possibilities of music and widen the horizons of later generations of composers. To his contemporaries he was sometimes a controversial figure, making heavy demands on listeners both by the length and by the complexity of his writing, as he explored new fields of music.

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