Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Hungarian début 1940

Olaszországban feltünt az "uj Liszt Ferenc"

Pesti Hírlap 1 September 1940

'The "new Liszt Ferenc" appeared in Italy. At the beginning of the summer, a report appeared in the Pesti Hirlap about the musical events of the festive games in Florence. The writer of the report, Countess Ceruttiné Paulay Erzsi (gróf Ceruttiné Paulay Erzsi, a Hugrarian actress married to Italian ambassador Count Vittorio Cerrutti) dedicated extremely warm lines to the praise of an 18-year-old Italian pianist, Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli. "Let us remember this name well," she wrote, "because the pianist we have been waiting for for years has arrived!" Other Italian and foreign press voices also confirm that a completely extraordinary phenomenon has appeared in the field of musical performing arts. This year, our audience will also get to know the young artist, the great winner of the Zurich [sic] piano competition two years ago; whom the great Cortot directly compared to Liszt Ferenc. In December, Benedetti-Michelangeli will organise a debut evening.

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