JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

His father, son of an Italian emigrant, was a music artisan. His mother was a respectable piano-teacher. She witnessed Ovidio’s beginnings as a natural player, improvising melodies at an early age to later becoming a music composer. Ovidio De Ferrari was born in Iquique in Chile, Latin America.- Ovidio, second son of three brothers, started improvising music before he was able to write properly at the age of 5. As he says, “The natural way of approaching the instrument and growing among musicians helped me to develop the ability of making music from the very beginning (Almost all his parents and relatives played the piano) “I thought the whole world played the piano…” says Ovidio.

Ovidio started giving concerts at the age of 10 as a singer and piano-accompanier of The Choir of the University of Chile, in 1965 in Arica, Chile.- At the age of 15 he got his high school diploma and came first out of 390 hopefuls. He also gained a scholarship to study music and composition in the Conservatory of Music at the University of Chile, Faculty of Arts, Santiago - Chile. During his career he has been traveling, playing and singing in 25 countries around the world.

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche