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Alfred Cortot

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2012 - Alfred Cortot Anniversary Edition

2006 - Etudes, op. 10 / Etudes, op. 25 / Barcarolle, op. 60
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2005 - The Master Classes

2005 - Preludes / Impromptus / Berceuse / Tarantelle
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2002 - Great Chamber Music Recordings: Archduke Trio / Kreutzer Son

1999 - Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat, op. 97 "Archduke" / Schuber

1992 - Romantic Piano Favourites
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1992 - Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Haydn: Piano Tri
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1991 - Œuvres pour Piano, Volume 2

1988 - Préludes / Impromptus / Barcarolle / Berceuse

0 - 24 Préludes Op. 28 / 4 Ballades

0 - Alfred Cortot plays Chopin Etudes, Preludes & Ballades

0 - Chopin

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Swiss

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Classical

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1877

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--- 1962

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Alfred Denis Cortot (26 September 1877 – 15 June 1962) was a Franco-Swiss pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. He was especially valued for his poetic insight into Romantic piano works, particularly those of Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Schumann.
Cortot was born in Nyon, Vaud, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, to a French father and a Swiss mother. His first cousin was the composer Edgard Varèse. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Decombes (a student of Frédéric Chopin), and with Louis Diémer, taking a premier prix in 1896. He made his debut at the Concerts Colonne in 1897, playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3.
Between 1898 and 1901 he was a choral coach and subsequently an assistant conductor at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1902 he conducted the Paris premiere of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. He formed a concert society to perform Wagner's Parsifal, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Brahms' German Requiem, and new works by French composers.