Alexis Weissenberg
Alexis Weissenberg · Arts & Literature
Classical pianist
1929, Sofia, Bulgaria — 2012, Lugano, Switzerland
Bulgaria · France · Switzerland
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Alexis Weissenberg was a Bulgarian-born French pianist admired for his brilliant, incisive interpretations of Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Bach, who enjoyed a major international career from the 1960s onward. As a Jewish child he and his mother were briefly interned before escaping wartime Bulgaria. He was Jewish, born in Sofia.
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Classical pianist
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