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Lazar Berman

Lazar Berman

Born: 26th February 1930, Leningrad, Soviet Union

Died: 6th February 2005, Florence, Italy

Nationality: Soviet Russian

Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world".