Though I've listened to Michelangeli on-and-off for many years, I don't regard myself as an expert on his life or on the merits of this-or-that off-air recording; but I have been fascinated by what I know of him, and so here - in English - is a website devoted to his life and career. I'm very happy to receive additional information and/or corrections. Please note: While I have Latin, ancient Greek, Hungarian, French and Spanish, I have used Google Translate for Italian, German, Czech, Romanian, Polish etc.

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Some of the more important sources of information for this website include:

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Pier Carlo Della Ferrera (online PDF link)

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John Bell Young (online), the first long article I read many years ago when first listening to ABM.  It led me to read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

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​Piero Rattalino, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, «Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani», Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, 2010

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Piero Rattalino, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. L'asceta, 2006

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Cord Garben, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. In bilico con un genio (Italian trans by Lore Seuss)

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An invaluable source is this (I've had to use Google Translate for the Czech) :

Katia Vendrame. Intepretive profile of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli/ Interpretační profil Artura Benedettiho Michelangeliho (Brno, 2022). LINK​​

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Online/newspaper archives include writings by: Bruno Giurato, Duilio Courir, John Gillespie, Alessandro Cecchi, Arnaldo Cohen, Corrado Corradi, Cesare Govi, Paulo Pesenti, Carl-Gunnar Åhlén, Cesare Augusto Tallone, Christopher Howell, Paolo Andrea Mettel, Aldo Orvieto, Ottavio di Carli, Jerzy Miziołek, Mathias Winkler

 

Books include those by: Klaus Umbach, Roberto Cotroneo, Marisa Bruni Tedeschi, Charles Barber, Olivier Ballamy, Nancy Phelan​

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Cini Foundation, Nino Rota Collection

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And for indispensable guides to recordings:

Christian Johansson

Pianist Discography.com

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​ Further books to be consulted (this website is "work in progress"):

*Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Luci e ombre del perfezionismo 2023
by Cord Garben​

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**Chronicle of the concerts by Harry Chin and Carlo Palese which accompanies the book (not yet seen)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Il Grembo del Suono (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. The Womb of Sound), Milan, Skira, 1996

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Cesare Augusto Tallone, Fede e lavoro: memorie di un accordatore, Rugginenti, Milano 2021

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Carlo Maria Dominici, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Il mio Maestro 2025

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Saggi e ritratti 2023
by Sonya Beretta (Editor), Giacomo Fornari (Editor), Vittorio Sgarbi (Preface)
 

Lidia Kozubek

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