Editing Claudio Arrau (section)

==Contributions==
Arrau was a frequent recital performer: from age 40 to 60 he averaged 120 concerts a season, with a very large repertoire. At one time or another, he performed the complete keyboard works of [[Bach]], [[Mozart]], [[Beethoven]] and [[Chopin]], but also programmed such off-the-beaten-path composers as [[Charles-Valentin Alkan|Alkan]] and [[Busoni]] and illuminated obscure corners of the [[Liszt]] repertoire. It has been estimated that Arrau's total repertoire would carry him through 76 recital evenings, not counting the 60-odd works with orchestra which he also knew.<ref name="Arrau60"/>

Arrau recorded a considerable part of the piano music of [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]], Chopin and Liszt. He edited the complete Beethoven piano sonatas for the [[Edition Peters|Peters]] [[Urtext edition]]<!-- product number (Ref) is EP8100A and EP8100B --> and recorded all of them on the [[Philips Classics Records|Philips]] label in 1962–1966. He recorded almost all of them once again in 1984–1990 along with Mozart's complete piano sonatas. He is also famous for his recordings of [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]] and [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]]. At the time of his death at age 88 in the midst of a European concert tour, Arrau was working on a recording of the complete works of Bach for [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]], and was also preparing some pieces of Haydn, Mendelssohn, Reger and Busoni, and Boulez's third piano sonata.

Numerous pianists studied with Arrau, including [[Karlrobert Kreiten]], [[Garrick Ohlsson]], [[Roberto Szidon]], [[Stephen Drury (musician)|Stephen Drury]], [[Roberto Eyzaguirre]], [[Edith Fischer]], [[David Lively]], Paul Kiss, Rafael de Silva, Arturo Nicolayevsky, among others.

On March 26, 2021, Pristine Classical released what it called "a sonic overhaul" of Arrau's "stunningly brilliant" 1942 RCA studio recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, remastered from an issue in 1988, which had "sat in the vaults [of RCA] for 46 years."<ref>{{Cite web|title="ARRAU Bach: Goldberg Variations", Pristine Classical - The Greatest Music, The Finest Sound|url=https://www.pristineclassical.com/|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Pristine Classical|language=en}}</ref>
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