Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)

Mr Armella's massive book (c.490 pages) on the chronology of ABM has just arrived. Details on my other website on Jorge Bolet (the ABM site is a free one so I cannot upload a photo of one page as a sample, as I'm at my data limit) Jorge Bolet website

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli gave his first performance of Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op.111 on 29 January 1937 in Brescia. Of a later performance, 'we read in the Popolo di Brescia  by critic Antonio Grassi on December 31, 1937: "Certainly Benedetti's interpretation is flawless, especially in the second part where the artist's power of penetration and translation must struggle against the sublime, but Beethoven would have caressed the head of this boy so bold and so talented,

[Posted on the 5 January, the offical date of ABM's birth, though he once claimed it was in the first hour of the 6th!] I've recently seen that a new book on the pianist, I concerti di Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli by Antonio Armella was published in December 2025. It retails at around 33 Euros/ £28 on Amazon, where the blurb is: "This unique book reconstructs the concert life of one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, the great Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, thro