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((Short description|Russian classical pianist (1930–2005)))
((more sources|date=September 2023))
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((Infobox musical artist
| name            = Lazar Berman
| image           = Лазарь Берман 1988 Мелужи.png
| alt             = 
| caption         = Lazar Berman in 1988
| background      = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name      = Lazar Berman
| birth_date      = ((Birth date|1930|2|26))
| birth_place     = [[Leningrad]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date      = ((Death date and age|2005|2|6|1930|2|26))
| death_place     = [[Florence]], Italy
| genre           = Classical piano
| years_active    = ((start date|1935))–((end date|2005))
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'''Lazar Naumovich Berman''' (((lang-ru|Ла́зарь Нау́мович Бе́рман|link=no)), ''Lazar Naumovich Berman''; February 26, 1930((spaced ndash))February 6, 2005) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] Russian [[European classical music|classical]] pianist, [[Honoured Artist of the RSFSR]] (1988). He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]] and [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff]] and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. [[Emil Gilels]] described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world."<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lazar-berman-482519.html</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Павел Берман 2018-02-04.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Pavel Berman]], Lazar Berman's son]]
Berman was born to Jewish parents in [[Saint Petersburg]]. His mother, Anna Lazarevna Makhover, had played the piano herself until prevented by hearing problems. She introduced her son to the piano at the age of two. Berman entered his first competition at the age of three, and recorded a [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] [[Fantasia (music)|fantasia]] and a [[mazurka]] that he had composed himself at the age of seven, before he could even read music.

Berman was first noticed while participating in city young talents competition. The jury under the chairmanship of [[Leonid Nikolaev (conductor)|Leonid Nikolaev]] noticed the child's "rare exceptional case of musical and piano skills".((quote without source|date=September 2023)) Now, after being officially given title "prodigy" at the age of four, he started studying with [[Leningrad State Conservatory]] professor, Samariy Savshinsky.

In 1939 when Berman was nine, the family moved to Moscow so that he could study with [[Alexander Goldenweiser (composer)|Aleksandr Goldenweiser]], first at Central Musical School, and then at the [[Moscow Conservatory]],<ref name=Kozinn>((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/arts/music/lazar-berman-pianist-known-for-powerful-style-dies-at-74.html|title=Lazar Berman, Pianist Known for Powerful Style, Dies at 74|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|author-link=Allan Kozinn|date=2005-02-09|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2023-09-08))</ref> where he graduated in 1953. In 1940, he made his formal debut playing Mozart's [[Piano Concerto No. 25 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 25]] with the [[Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra]]. In 1941, students, pupils and parents were evacuated to [[Samara]] (then Kuybyshev), a city on the [[Volga]], because of World War II. Living conditions were so poor that his mother had to cut the fingers from a pair of gloves to allow him to continue to practise without freezing his hands.

He subsequently began to acquire international prominence. At the age of 12 he played [[Franz Liszt]]'s ''[[La campanella]]'' to a British audience over the radio. In 1956 became a laureate of two international piano competitions: [[Queen Elisabeth Competition]] in Belgium, with [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], and the [[Franz Liszt International Piano Competition (Budapest)|Franz Liszt Competition]] in Budapest, Hungary.<ref name=Kozinn /> As a result of these accomplishments, Berman was offered an international tour, and landed a recording deal, which included recordings of Liszt's sonata and Beethoven's [[Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)|"Appassionata"]]. In 1958, he performed in London and recorded for SAGA.<ref>((Discogs release|8811025|Lazar Berman, Liszt, Beethoven – Sonata in B minor – Appassionata))</ref>

From 1959 to 1971 Berman was not allowed to travel abroad due to his marriage to a French national (the marriage soon fell apart); however, he continued to tour around Soviet Union, and did some recordings at Melodia studio, including Liszt's ''[[Transcendental Études]]''. That recording became one of the first Soviet recordings done with the use of stereo technology. From the mid 1970s, Berman was again allowed to tour abroad, which he did to high acclaim.

In 1968 he married Valentina Sedova and in 1970 their son, [[Pavel Berman|Pavel]], was born.
[[File:Берманы Лазарь и Валентина 2000.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Lazar and Valentina Berman (2000)]]

Although he was known to international music aficionados who had heard the occasional recording on the Russian [[Melodiya]] record label, as well as those who visited the Soviet Union, he was not generally well known outside Russia before his 1975 American tour, organised by the [[impresario]] [[Jacques Leiser]]. His now legendary New York debut at the [[92nd Street Y]], where he played Liszt's ''Transcendental Études'', struck the music world like lightning. He became an overnight sensation. Before that, he had been generally restricted to the Soviet concert circuit, playing on old and decrepit pianos to audiences of varied degrees of interest. Invitations to tour outside the Soviet Union were ignored by the Soviet state concert agency, ((ill|Gosconcert|ru|Госконцерт)). He lived in a tiny two-room apartment in Moscow, with a [[grand piano]] occupying an entire room. But after his 1975 tour, he was immediately in great demand, with [[Deutsche Grammophon]], [[EMI]], and [[CBS]] vying to record him. He recorded the [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|First Piano Concerto]] with [[Herbert von Karajan]], as well as broadcasting it on international television with [[Antal Doráti]], to mark [[United Nations Day]] in 1976.<ref name=BC>((cite web|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Berman-Lazar.htm|title=Lazar Berman (Piano)|last=Oron|first=Aryeh|date=June 2007|website=Bach Cantatas|access-date=2023-09-08))</ref>

His playing of [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]] is well documented, in both a concert film and a Deutsche Grammophon recording of the polonaises from the 1970s.<ref>((Discogs master|543393|Frédéric Chopin, Lazar Berman – Polonaises))</ref><ref>[http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Australian%2BEloquence/ELQ4807074 "Lazar Berman plays Chopin: Polonaises & Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition"], Presto Classical</ref>

Most of his British appearances came in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In December 1976, he performed music by [[Sergei Prokofiev]] and Franz Liszt at the [[Royal Festival Hall]].<ref name=BC />

In 1980, at the height of his popularity, Berman again was barred from leaving Soviet Union. This time it was because a book by an American writer (censored in the USSR) was found in his luggage while he was passing custom in Moscow's airport.

In August 1990 Berman left USSR for Norway, followed by final relocation to Italy, where he became a teacher. Four years later he became Italian citizen, and the following year he got invited to Musical School of Weimar, Germany, where he continued teaching until 2000. He often performed along with his son, violinist Pavel Berman.

Berman died in 2005, survived by his second wife, Valentina Sedova, also a pianist, and their son, talented violinist and conductor Pavel Berman. His students included Sonya Bach, Italian pianists Giuliano Mazzocante, [[Maurizio Baglini]], [[Enrico Elisi]], and [[Enrico Pace]], [[Vladimir Stoupel]], Rutsuko Yamagishi, Ioana Lupascu, [[Gintaras Januševičius]], [[Vardan Mamikonian (musician)|Vardan Mamikonian]], ((ill|Victor Chestopal|ru|Шестопал, Виктор Алексеевич)), [[Rueibin Chen]], Antonio Formaro and [[Viktoriya Yermolyeva]]. Also Korean pianist [https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%95%EC%A2%85%ED%9B%88_(1969%EB%85%84) Chong Park] and Japanese pianist [https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%98%ED%95%98%EB%A3%A8_%EC%95%84%EC%9D%B4%EC%9E%90%EC%99%80 Chiharu Aizawa] who got married, and perform as piano duo “[https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%93%80%EC%98%A4%EB%B9%84%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C Duo VIVID]”

Berman is buried at the [[Cimitero delle Porte Sante]] in Florence. The epitaph on his burial stone says: "You and your music are always with us".

==References==
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==External links==
((Commons category|Lazar Berman))
*[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lazar-berman-nq72h9skzpz "Obituary"], 10 February 2012, ''[[The Times]]'' ((subscription))
*((Discogs artist|869796|Lazar Berman))
*((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/10/arts/piano-lazar-berman.html|title=Piano: Lazar Berman|type=[[Carnegie Hall]] concert review|author=[[Donal Henahan]]|date=10 February 1987|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=8 September 2023|ref=none))
* ((AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0002041344|Lazar Berman|author=Erik Eriksson))
*((cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/14/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title= Lazar Berman|last=Morrison|first= Bryce|date=2005-02-14|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2018-03-02|ref=none))

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