Isaac Stern was an American violinist.
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
This article is about music-related events in 1869.
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers. He is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the Germanic tradition during the 20th century and one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Jorge Bolet was a Cuban-born American concert pianist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt.
Elena Kuschnerova is a Russian-born classical pianist.
Solomon Cutner was a British pianist known professionally as Solomon.
Richard Goode is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven.
Cecile Buencamino Licad is a Filipina classical pianist. She was born in Manila.
Vox Records is a budget classical record label. The name is Latin for "voice."
Leonard Borwick was an English concert pianist especially associated with the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman, known as Pierre Zimmermann and Joseph Zimmermann, was a French pianist, composer, and music teacher.
Alexander Sung is a Chinese harpsichordist and pianist. His family moved to Hong Kong before the 1949 Chinese Revolution where he attended Pui Ching Middle School. After studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, under Heinz Scholz, the brother of Robert Scholz, Alexander Sung studied harpsichord under Isolde Ahlgrimm and piano under Richard Hauser in Vienna.