Is Claudio Arrau the greatest pianist in the world ... can be no doubt that the changes result from conviction rather than physical necessity. He plays Liszt's frighteningly demanding Transcendental ...

but Arrau's greatness stems from the unbroken line that he, through Krause, and Liszt, can trace back by only three "generations" directly to Beethoven himself. No other South American pianist of this ...

Born in Chile, Arrau studied in Berlin with the Liszt pupil, Martin Krause. This German training made him a great interpreter of the core Romantic repertoire. During the 1950s he played and recorded a ...