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Claudio ArrauClaudio Arrau (February 6, 1903 - June 9, 1991) was a Chilean-American pianist, of world fame because of his interpretations of a huge repertory spanning from the baroque to 20th century composers.Claudio Arrau was born in Chillan[?], the son of a pianist and an eye doctor. He was a child prodigy, giving his first concert at age 5. At age 7 he was send on a Chilean government grant to study in Germany, where he was a pupil of Martin Krause, who had studied under Franz Liszt. At the time of his death in Mürzzuschlag[?], Austria, he was working on a CD recording of the complete works of Bach for keyboard. Crane and Charles Langdon's daughter,
days later. Just before leaving, Clemens received an offer from Pond of
platform in America. It was too great a temptation to resist at once,
Mrs. Clemens opposed the plan. She thought his health no longer equal to
able to manage their problem without this sum. In the end the offer was
destination being Lucerne. They did not remain there, however. They
the Rigi--where, in the Villa Buhlegg, they arranged for the summer.html">summer at
the blue water to Mount Pilatus, the lake.html">lake shore dotted with white.html">white
was scarcely a villa except by courtesy--there was a little inclosure,
rest and smoke. The fact is remembered there to-day, and recorded. A
shore he discovered a neat, white cottage were some kindly working-people
windows looking out upon the lake, and he worked there steadily. To
restfulness, superb scenery whose beauty undergoes a perpetual change
new inventions. We shall always come here for the summers if we can.
The others have climbed the Rigi, he says, and he expects to some day if
during that summer vagabondage, nineteen years before.
He was full of enthusiasm over his work. To F. H. Skrine, in London, he
contains two or three pages merely of titles of the stories he proposed
completed. There still exists a bulky, half-finished manuscript about
is the tale.html">tale already mentioned, the "dream" story; and another tale with a
title of "Hell-Fire Hotchkiss"--a, story of Hannibal life--and some short
Perhaps his long book of travel had disqualified his. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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