Alexis Weissenberg
Birthday
1929/07/26
Day of death
2012/01/08 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Sofia, Bulgaria
Also know as
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Biography
Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg (26 July 1929 – 8 January 2012) was a Bulgarian-born French pianist. Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov, a Bulgarian composer. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. In 1941, he and his mother tried to escape from German-occupied Bulgaria for Turkey, but were caught and imprisoned in a makeshift concentration camp in Bulgaria for three months. A German guard – who ...Read more
Acting
(1967) Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)
as soloist
(2008) Karajan In Concert
as Self - Piano
(1985) Victoires de la musique
as Self
(1978) Bio’s Bahnhof
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self - Main Guest
(1975) Numéro un
as Self - Host
(1975) Numéro un
as Self
(1982) Champs-Elysées
as Self
(1976) 30 millions d'amis
as Self