Editing Martha Argerich (section)

== Professional career ==
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Argerich performed her debut concert at the age of eight, playing Mozart's [[Piano Concerto No. 20 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 20]] in D minor and [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1]] in [[C major]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Argerich-Martha.htm|title=Martha Argerich (Piano) – Short Biography|website=Bach-cantatas.com|access-date=19 November 2017}}</ref> She gained international prominence when she won the [[VII International Chopin Piano Competition]] in [[Warsaw]] in 1965, at age 24.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/en/lioness-of-the-piano-martha-argerich-turns-80/a-57779104 |title='Lioness' of piano: Martha Argerich turns 80 |website=dw.com |author=Anastassia Boutsko |date=6 April 2021 |access-date=12 October 2023}}</ref> In that same year, she debuted in the United States in [[Lincoln Center]]'s Great Performers Series. In 1960, she had made her first commercial recording, which included works by [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]], [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]], [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]], and [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]]; it received critical acclaim upon its release in 1961. She has since recorded works by composers including [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera]], [[Rachmaninoff]] and [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]], to whom she describes feeling a particular connection.<ref name="Bloody Daughter">"Bloody Daughter"</ref>

[[File:Martha argerich cck jul15.jpg|thumb|Argerich performing at the [[Kirchner Cultural Centre]], July 2015|left|304x304px]]

Argerich has often remarked in interviews of feeling "lonely" on stage during solo performances.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sPD1cma58w | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202135058/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sPD1cma58w| archive-date=2 February 2014 | url-status=dead|title=YouTube |publisher=YouTube |access-date=21 October 2013}}</ref> Since the 1980s, she has staged few solo performances, concentrating instead on [[piano concerto|concertos]] and, in particular, [[chamber music]], and collaborating with instrumentalists in [[Sonata|sonatas]].

Argerich has also promoted younger pianists, both through her annual festival and through her appearances as a member of the jury at international competitions.<ref name="About ICC">{{cite web|title=About|url=http://konkurs.chopin.pl/en/about/competition|publisher=Chopin International Competition|access-date=17 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707105707/http://konkurs.chopin.pl/en/about/competition|archive-date=7 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="ASU Jury">{{cite web|title=Jury|url=http://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/pianocompetition/2013/jury.php|publisher=ASU Competition|access-date=17 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521032131/http://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/pianocompetition/2013/jury.php|archive-date=21 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="AR Competition">{{cite web|title=Ninth Competition|url=http://www.arims.org.il/ninth.php|publisher=Arthur Rubinstein Competition|access-date=17 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930200115/http://www.arims.org.il/ninth.php|archive-date=30 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The pianist [[Ivo Pogorelić]] was thrust into the musical spotlight partly as a result of Argerich's actions: after he was eliminated in the third round of the [[X International Chopin Piano Competition|1980 International Chopin Piano Competition]] in [[Warsaw]], Argerich proclaimed him a genius and left the jury in protest.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McCormick|first=Lisa|date=2018|title=Pogorelich at the Chopin: Towards a sociology of competition scandals|journal=The Chopin Review|publisher=[[Fryderyk Chopin Institute]]|issue=1|issn=2544-9249|url=http://chopinreview.com/pages/issue/7/1|access-date=29 July 2021|archive-date=27 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127080742/http://chopinreview.com/pages/issue/7/1|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to [[Đặng Thái Sơn]], the eventual winner, Argerich made the "beautiful gesture" of sending a public telegram to the judging committee to congratulate him, after learning the final results.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ho|first=Elijah|date=22 September 2011|title=Interview with Dang Thai Son|url= http://www.thecounterpoints.com/interviews/2015/9/15/interview-with-pianist-dang-thai-son |website=The Counterpoints}}</ref> She has supported several artists, including [[Gabriela Montero]], [[Mauricio Vallina]], [[Sergio Tiempo]], [[Roberto Carnevale]], [[Gabriele Baldocci]], and [[Christopher Falzone]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxlJqI5idRkrS72BfVTK8A |title=Classicalrecitals |publisher=YouTube |date=3 November 2009 |access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rsi.ch/argerich/welcome.cfm?lng=1&ids=491&idc=989 |title=Progetto Martha Argerich |language=it |publisher=Rsi.ch |access-date=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006174602/http://www.rsi.ch/argerich/welcome.cfm?lng=1&ids=491&idc=989 |archive-date=6 October 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rsi.ch/argerich/welcome.cfm?lng=1&ids=491&idc=1000 |title=Progetto Martha Argerich |language=it |publisher=Rsi.ch |access-date=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230134018/http://www.rsi.ch/argerich/welcome.cfm?lng=1&ids=491&idc=1000 |archive-date=30 December 2010 }}</ref>

[[File:Martha Argerich concierto.jpg|thumb|Argerich performing at the later [[Kirchner Cultural Centre]], 2008|218x218px]]

Argerich is the president of the [[International Piano Academy Lake Como]] and performs annually at the [[Lugano]] Festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www4.rsi.ch/trasm/argerich/welcome.cfm |title=Progetto Martha Argerich |language=it |publisher=.rsi.ch |access-date=4 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104084319/http://www4.rsi.ch/trasm/argerich/welcome.cfm |archive-date=4 November 2015 }}</ref> She has also created and been a General Director of the Argerich Music Festival and Encounter in [[Beppu]], Japan, since 1996.

Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career. Nevertheless, she is widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists in history.<ref name="Alex Ross New Yorker profile">{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Alex |title=Madame X|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/11/12/011112crmu_music |access-date=15 January 2014 |newspaper=The New Yorker |date=12 November 2001 |author-link=Alex Ross (music critic)}}</ref><ref name="2005 Tommasini review">{{cite news |last=Tommasini |first=Anthony |title=Classical Music: Recordings; Boisterous Beethoven, Brooding Brahms |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E7D7123CF933A15750C0A9639C8B63&ref=marthaargerich |access-date=15 January 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=20 March 2005 |author-link=Anthony Tommasini}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Carrizo |first=Rodrigo |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/directdemocracy/48th-solothurn-film-festival_examining-a-martha-daughter-relationship/34795316 |title=Examining a Martha-daughter relationship – SWI |publisher=Swissinfo.ch |date=24 January 2013 |access-date=4 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924112529/http://www.swissinfo.ch/directdemocracy/48th-solothurn-film-festival_examining-a-martha-daughter-relationship/34795316 |archive-date=24 September 2015 }}</ref><ref>In a 2001 article about Martha Argerich for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', critic [[Alex Ross (music critic)|Alex Ross]] wrote: "Argerich brings to bear qualities that are seldom contained in one person: she is a pianist of brain-teasing technical agility; she is a charismatic woman with an enigmatic reputation; she is an unaffected interpreter whose native language is music. This last may be the quality that sets her apart. A lot of pianists play huge double octaves; a lot of pianists photograph well. But few have the unerring naturalness of phrasing that allows them to embody the music rather than interpret it."</ref> Her performance of [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)|Liszt's First Piano Concerto]] conducted by [[Daniel Barenboim]] at [[BBC Proms|The Proms]] 2016 prompted this review in ''[[The Guardian]]'': "It was an unforgettable performance. Argerich celebrated her 75th birthday in June this year, but that news doesn't seem to have reached her fingers. Her playing is still as dazzling, as frighteningly precise, as it has always been; her ability to spin gossamer threads of melody as matchless as ever. This was unmistakably and unashamedly Liszt in the grand manner, a bit old-fashioned and sometimes even a bit vulgar at times, but in this of all concertos, with Barenboim and the orchestra following each twist and turn, every little quickening and moment of expressive reflection, it seemed entirely appropriate".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/18/west-eastern-divan-orchestra-barenboim-argerich-review-prom-43-royal-albert-hall |title=West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim/Argerich review – extraordinary in every respect|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 August 2016 |access-date=15 November 2016}}</ref> Argerich returned to the Proms at the age of 78 in 2019 to perform [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s First Piano Concerto under the baton of Barenboim, a performance described as "mesmerizing".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/13/prom-34-west-eastern-divan-orchestra-barenboim-argerich-review|title=Prom 34: West-Eastern Divan Orch/Barenboim/Argerich review – immaculate and mesmerising|first=Andrew|last=Clements|newspaper=The Guardian |date=13 August 2019}}</ref>