
:''This article deals with those who play the piano. For other uses, see pianist (disambiguation).'' A pianist is a person who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists. A performing classical music pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Sergei Rachmaninoff were all virtuoso pianists. Most pianists specialize in certain composer(s)'s music or a certain period to some extent. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including jazz, classical music, and all sorts of popular music. Below is a list of well-known or influential pianists of different genres. == Classical pianists == * Valery Afanassiev * Pierre-Laurent Aimard * Dimitri Alexeev * Leif Ove Andsnes * Martha Argerich * Claudio Arrau * Vladimir Ashkenazy * Gina Bachauer * Wilhelm Backhaus * Paul Badura-Skoda * Daniel Barenboim * Simon Barere * David Bates (pianist) * Sean Bennett * Bart Berman * Lazar Berman * Idil Biret * Jorge Bolet * Hendrik Bouman * Alfred Brendel * John Browning (pianist) * Hans von Bülow * Ferruccio Busoni * Bruno Canino * Robert Casadesus * Jiyang Chen * Sa Chen * Shura Cherkassky * Dino Ciani * Aldo Ciccolini * Van Cliburn * Harriet Cohen * Naida Cole * Jean-Philippe Collard * Alfred Cortot * Clifford Curzon * Kristian Cvetkovic * Georges Cziffra * Bella Davidovich * Alicia de Larrocha * Nikolai Demidenko * Vasso Devetsi * Peter Donohoe * Barry Douglas * Hans Eijsackers * Christoph Eschenbach * Till Fellner * Vladimir Feltsman * Annie Fischer * Edwin Fischer * Leon Fleisher * Tsong Fou * Ignaz Friedman * Ossip Gabrilowitsch * Walter Gieseking * Emil Gilels * Jacob Gimpel * Grigory Ginsburg * Katrine Gislinge * Leopold Godowsky * Misha Goldstein * Richard Goode * Glenn Gould * Gary Graffman * Hélène Grimaud * Friedrich Gulda * Horatio Gutierrez * Marc-André Hamelin * Clara Haskil * Ingrid Haebler * Chase Hatmaker * Gerard Hengeveld * Myra Hess * Angela Hewitt * Józef Hofmann * Vladimir Horowitz * Mieczyslaw Horszowski * Stephen Hough * Peter Jablonski * Zoran G Jancic * Jenö Jandó * Byron Janis * William Kapell * Julius Katchen * Rudolf Kehrer * Freddy Kempf * Wilhelm Kempff * Olga Kern * Angela Jia Kim * Evgeny Kissin * Alexander Kobrin * Zoltán Kocsis * Raul Koczalski * Tzvetan Konstantinov * Evgeni Koroliov * Stephen Kovacevich * Lili Kraus * Katia Labèque * Marielle Labèque * Lang Lang * Colleen Lee * Josef Lhévinne * Rosina Lhévinne * Ming-Qiang Li * Yundi Li * John Lill * Dong-Hyek Lim * Dinu Lipatti * Eugene List * Louis Lortie * Radu Lupu * Maura Lympany * Witold Malcuzynski * Joanna MacGregor * Hephzibah Menuhin * Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli * Hamish Milne * Ivan Moravec * Benno Moiseiwitsch * Jon Nakamatsu * Tatiana Nikolayeva * Guiomar Novaes * John Ogdon * Garrick Ohlsson * Gerhard Oppitz * Rafael Orozco * Cécile Ousset * Vladimir de Pachmann * Ignace Paderewski * Murray Perahia * Bernaldo Evangelista * Jon Kimura Parker * Alfredo Perl * Vlado Perlemuter * Egon Petri * Maria Joao Pires * Artur Pizarro * Francis Planté * Mikhail Pletnev * Ivo Pogorelich * Maurizio Pollini * Viktoria Postnikova * Menahem Pressler * André Prévin * Sergei Prokofiev * Eduaro del Pueyo * Sergei Rachmaninoff * Livia Rev * Hans Richter-Haaser * Sviatoslav Richter * Bernard Roberts * Pascal Rogé * Moriz Rosenthal * Charles Rosen * Anton Rubinstein * Arthur Rubinstein * Nikolai Rubinstein * Camille Saint-Saëns * Emil von Sauer * András Schiff * Artur Schnabel * Peter Serkin * Rudolf Serkin * Craig Sheppard * Dmitri Shostakovich * Ronald Smith * Dmitris Sgouros * Vladimir Sofronitsky * Grigory Sokolov * Juan Maria Solare * Solomon Cutner * Igor Tachuev * Gerardo Teissonniere * Jean-Yves Thibaudet * Maria Tipo * Alexander Toradze * David Tudor * Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak * Rosalyn Tureck * Mitsuko Uchida * Arie Vardi * Arcadi Volodos * André Watts * Alexis Weissenberg * Earl Wild * Elisso Wirssaladze * Paul Wittgenstein * Daniel Wnukowski * Oxana Yablonskaya * Maria Yudina * Christian Zacharias * Krystian Zimerman == Pop music pianists == * Tori Amos * Richard Clayderman * Vanessa Carlton * Jo Ann Castle * Nick Cave * Russ Conway * Ben Folds * Billy Joel * Elton John * Norah Jones * Alicia Keys * Oksana Kolesnikova * Liberace * Barry Manilow * Joni Mitchell * Peter Skellern == Jazz pianists == See List of jazz pianists. == Blues pianists == * Ray Charles also jazz, and country music * Fats Domino * Little Willie Littlefield * Professor Longhair * Jimmy Yancey * Otis Spann See the List of boogie woogie musicians for more blues players. == Country pianists == * Owen Bradley, also a record producer * Floyd Cramer, "Last Date" * Mickey Gilley, cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart * Jerry Lee Lewis, also rock and roll * Ronnie Milsap * Moon Mullican, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" * Charlie Rich * Hargus Robbins, legendary session player * Fred Rose, also a music publisher * Del Wood, "Down Yonder" == Other genres == Well known gospel music or contemporary Christian music pianists include: * Keith Green * Jimmy Swaggart Pianists
==Well Known or Influential== This morning User:128.36.50.251 removed some 75% of the names from the classical pianist section. I've reverted the edits, but I guess the motivation may have been that many of these names are perhaps not so well-known or influential. Maybe the list should be pruned, or maybe many of the names should be moved to a separate list of classical pianist (divided by nationality perhaps). On the other hand, less significant pianists could be said to be covered by the category system. -- User:Solipsist 06:53, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I agree, there should be a separate page called List of classical pianists. User:Bfinn 22:28, 17 May 2005 (UTC) I, too, think that some of the classical pianists listed should be removed. Maybe not 75%, but I haven't heard about quite a big part of those before. We should discuss about the red links first - or they really deserve an article or they're not worth mentioning on this site either. --User:Missmarple 12:34, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC) I think a separate page for classical pianists would be a good idea. But I have yet to see any pianist listed who should be removed. Granted, many may not be well known or even known at all, especially those from the Golden or Silver Age of the piano, but none are without interest and many were influential in their own right. --User:Mhare40 2:30, 12 June 2005.
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:''This article deals with those who play the piano. For other uses, see pianist (disambiguation).'' A pianist is a person who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists. A performing classical music pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Sergei Rachmaninoff were all virtuoso pianists. Most pianists specialize in certain composer(s)'s music or a certain period to some extent. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including jazz, classical music, and all sorts of popular music. Below is a list of well-known or influential pianists of different genres. == Classical pianists == * Valery Afanassiev * Pierre-Laurent Aimard * Dimitri Alexeev * Leif Ove Andsnes * Martha Argerich * Claudio Arrau * Vladimir Ashkenazy * Gina Bachauer * Wilhelm Backhaus * Paul Badura-Skoda * Daniel Barenboim * Simon Barere * David Bates (pianist) * Sean Bennett * Bart Berman * Lazar Berman * Idil Biret * Jorge Bolet * Hendrik Bouman * Alfred Brendel * John Browning (pianist) * Hans von Bülow * Ferruccio Busoni * Bruno Canino * Robert Casadesus * Jiyang Chen * Sa Chen * Shura Cherkassky * Dino Ciani * Aldo Ciccolini * Van Cliburn * Harriet Cohen * Naida Cole * Jean-Philippe Collard * Alfred Cortot * Clifford Curzon * Kristian Cvetkovic * Georges Cziffra * Bella Davidovich * Alicia de Larrocha * Nikolai Demidenko * Vasso Devetsi * Peter Donohoe * Barry Douglas * Hans Eijsackers * Christoph Eschenbach * Till Fellner * Vladimir Feltsman * Annie Fischer * Edwin Fischer * Leon Fleisher * Tsong Fou * Ignaz Friedman * Ossip Gabrilowitsch * Walter Gieseking * Emil Gilels * Jacob Gimpel * Grigory Ginsburg * Katrine Gislinge * Leopold Godowsky * Misha Goldstein * Richard Goode * Glenn Gould * Gary Graffman * Hélène Grimaud * Friedrich Gulda * Horatio Gutierrez * Marc-André Hamelin * Clara Haskil * Ingrid Haebler * Chase Hatmaker * Gerard Hengeveld * Myra Hess * Angela Hewitt * Józef Hofmann * Vladimir Horowitz * Mieczyslaw Horszowski * Stephen Hough * Peter Jablonski * Zoran G Jancic * Jenö Jandó * Byron Janis * William Kapell * Julius Katchen * Rudolf Kehrer * Freddy Kempf * Wilhelm Kempff * Olga Kern * Angela Jia Kim * Evgeny Kissin * Alexander Kobrin * Zoltán Kocsis * Raul Koczalski * Tzvetan Konstantinov * Evgeni Koroliov * Stephen Kovacevich * Lili Kraus * Katia Labèque * Marielle Labèque * Lang Lang * Colleen Lee * Josef Lhévinne * Rosina Lhévinne * Ming-Qiang Li * Yundi Li * John Lill * Dong-Hyek Lim * Dinu Lipatti * Eugene List * Louis Lortie * Radu Lupu * Maura Lympany * Witold Malcuzynski * Joanna MacGregor * Hephzibah Menuhin * Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli * Hamish Milne * Ivan Moravec * Benno Moiseiwitsch * Jon Nakamatsu * Tatiana Nikolayeva * Guiomar Novaes * John Ogdon * Garrick Ohlsson * Gerhard Oppitz * Rafael Orozco * Cécile Ousset * Vladimir de Pachmann * Ignace Paderewski * Murray Perahia * Bernaldo Evangelista * Jon Kimura Parker * Alfredo Perl * Vlado Perlemuter * Egon Petri * Maria Joao Pires * Artur Pizarro * Francis Planté * Mikhail Pletnev * Ivo Pogorelich * Maurizio Pollini * Viktoria Postnikova * Menahem Pressler * André Prévin * Sergei Prokofiev * Eduaro del Pueyo * Sergei Rachmaninoff * Livia Rev * Hans Richter-Haaser * Sviatoslav Richter * Bernard Roberts * Pascal Rogé * Moriz Rosenthal * Charles Rosen * Anton Rubinstein * Arthur Rubinstein * Nikolai Rubinstein * Camille Saint-Saëns * Emil von Sauer * András Schiff * Artur Schnabel * Peter Serkin * Rudolf Serkin * Craig Sheppard * Dmitri Shostakovich * Ronald Smith * Dmitris Sgouros * Vladimir Sofronitsky * Grigory Sokolov * Juan Maria Solare * Solomon Cutner * Igor Tachuev * Gerardo Teissonniere * Jean-Yves Thibaudet * Maria Tipo * Alexander Toradze * David Tudor * Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak * Rosalyn Tureck * Mitsuko Uchida * Arie Vardi * Arcadi Volodos * André Watts * Alexis Weissenberg * Earl Wild * Elisso Wirssaladze * Paul Wittgenstein * Daniel Wnukowski * Oxana Yablonskaya * Maria Yudina * Christian Zacharias * Krystian Zimerman == Pop music pianists == * Tori Amos * Richard Clayderman * Vanessa Carlton * Jo Ann Castle * Nick Cave * Russ Conway * Ben Folds * Billy Joel * Elton John * Norah Jones * Alicia Keys * Oksana Kolesnikova * Liberace * Barry Manilow * Joni Mitchell * Peter Skellern == Jazz pianists == See List of jazz pianists. == Blues pianists == * Ray Charles also jazz, and country music * Fats Domino * Little Willie Littlefield * Professor Longhair * Jimmy Yancey * Otis Spann See the List of boogie woogie musicians for more blues players. == Country pianists == * Owen Bradley, also a record producer * Floyd Cramer, "Last Date" * Mickey Gilley, cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart * Jerry Lee Lewis, also rock and roll * Ronnie Milsap * Moon Mullican, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" * Charlie Rich * Hargus Robbins, legendary session player * Fred Rose, also a music publisher * Del Wood, "Down Yonder" == Other genres == Well known gospel music or contemporary Christian music pianists include: * Keith Green * Jimmy Swaggart Pianists
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==Well Known or Influential== This morning User:128.36.50.251 removed some 75% of the names from the classical pianist section. I've reverted the edits, but I guess the motivation may have been that many of these names are perhaps not so well-known or influential. Maybe the list should be pruned, or maybe many of the names should be moved to a separate list of classical pianist (divided by nationality perhaps). On the other hand, less significant pianists could be said to be covered by the category system. -- User:Solipsist 06:53, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I agree, there should be a separate page called List of classical pianists. User:Bfinn 22:28, 17 May 2005 (UTC) I, too, think that some of the classical pianists listed should be removed. Maybe not 75%, but I haven't heard about quite a big part of those before. We should discuss about the red links first - or they really deserve an article or they're not worth mentioning on this site either. --User:Missmarple 12:34, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC) I think a separate page for classical pianists would be a good idea. But I have yet to see any pianist listed who should be removed. Granted, many may not be well known or even known at all, especially those from the Golden or Silver Age of the piano, but none are without interest and many were influential in their own right. --User:Mhare40 2:30, 12 June 2005.
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