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Mattheus Smits recalls Bolet & J.Marx
After leaving music conservatory [in Utrecht], I continued my piano studies in 1972 with the Dutch pianist Mr. Johan Ligtelijn, who had studied with the Liszt student, Frederic Lamond (who taught for some years in Holland) and with Walter Gieseking. Mr. Ligtelijn told me the Marx concerto was the best new concerto Gieseking had laid his hands upon. Gieseking played many new concerti: Pfitzner, Petrassi, Trapp and of course the two works by Marx. (I regret he never played t
Blue Pumpkin
Jan 7, 20253 min read
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