Who was Jorge Bolet?

I am very grateful to the following people & institutions for help and information:

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Christopher Daly, New Jersey

Francis Crociata, generous with both information and rare recordings

Mattheus Smits, Netherlands, for photographs and valuable personal memories

Donald Manildi, International Piano Archive, College Park, Maryland

Susannah Thurlow, Archivist, Curtis Institute, Philadelphia

Lesbia Orta Varona, Cuban Heritage Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

Frank Bell, Atlanta, Georgia

Monica Pasquale, great-niece of JB  

David & Jorge Sierra-Bolet, Samuel Bolet, JB's nephews   

Houston A. Cummings

Larry Yungk

Francisco Renno

Gregor Benko

Michael Glover

Christian Johansson link

Gary Thor Wedow

Nigel Cameron

Mathias Donderer

Michał Sikora, Warsaw

​David Hickey & Caprielle D'Ulisse, The Stony Brook School, Long Island, NY

Alicia Torra de Larrocha

Christopher Stevens

The British Library

The Free Library of Philadelphia

Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira

Delpher, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands

National Library of Australia

Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, Norway

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Canada

Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek/Austrian National Libraries digital newspapers

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)

Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires (Rubén Alberto Piñeyro)

Hamburger Abendblatt Zeitungsarchiv

Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica, Spain

Suntory Hall Performance Archive, Tokyo, Japan

Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México

Mazowiecka Biblioteka Cyfrowa (Masovian Digital Library, Poland)

Library of British Columbia, online digitised newspapers

Archivos Patrimoniales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

East View Global Press Archive (Die Transvaler, El Mundo)

​arrauhouse.org (a site dedicated to Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau)

...and not forgetting the redoubtable Internet Archive "archive.org"

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This website, begun in 2009 is now - to borrow from the BBC's famous science-fiction Time Lord Dr Who - in its third "regeneration" (July 2023).  As you can see, I've discovered quite a lot since 1983 when - aside from the usual details in record company blurb and interviews etc. -  the only "extra" detail I knew was that Jorge Bolet's address was Apartado 5, Fuenterrabia, Spain (further information about which is still proving elusive).