whether lessons or friendship or whatever. i can't remember how they first met.
It is true that he played Lisztīs Sonara at first sight?
No, he did not.By the way, according to my records he was nothing more than a mediocre pianist past his early years, in which he was a fine, but far from stellar, pianist. He claimed after a 2nd concerto performance that it was so bad because he had "better things to do than practice 3 hours a day."Perhaps you would all be better off by checking the old library.Dan