It is with infinite sadness that the classical community learned, this Monday evening, April 18, of the disappearance of pianist Nicholas Angelich, at the age of only 51 years.
The American virtuoso, who had spent most of his career in France and lived in Paris, had suffered for several years from a respiratory illness, which unfortunately took him away on this Easter weekend, when two others also disappeared. illustrious names in music: British composer Harrison Birtwistle and Romanian pianist Radu Lupu
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On social networks, the accounts of countless musicians are veiled in tears and black.
Philippe Cassard expressed his
"tremendous sorrow"
for his two colleagues, who had just joined
"the paradise of pianists".
While the conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen evoked
“a day of unimaginable sadness…”
, Renaud Capuçon, who had played many times with Nicholas Angelich, gave him a last…
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