Roberto Szidon

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title: "Roberto Szidon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1941-births", "2011-deaths", "deutsche-grammophon-artists", "brazilian-male-classical-pianists", "brazilian-expatriates-in-germany", "german-lgbtq-musicians", "brazilian-lgbtq-musicians", "brazilian-people-of-hungarian-descent", "20th-century-brazilian-classical-pianists", "20th-century-german-musicians"] description: "Brazilian pianist" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Szidon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Roberto Szidon
image	Roberto Szidon.jpeg
birth_date
birth_place	Porto Alegre, Brazil
death_date
death_place	Düsseldorf, Germany
occupation	musician, teacher, scholar, pianist
instrument	piano
label	Deutsche Grammophon
partner	Richard Metzler
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| name = Roberto Szidon | image = Roberto Szidon.jpeg | birth_date = | birth_place = Porto Alegre, Brazil | death_date = | death_place = Düsseldorf, Germany | occupation = musician, teacher, scholar, pianist | instrument = piano | label = Deutsche Grammophon | partner = Richard Metzler

Roberto Szidon (21 September 1941 – 21 December 2011) was a Brazilian classical pianist who had an international performing and recording career, and settled in Germany.

Life and career

Szidon was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1941. He gave his first concert at age 9 in his home town. He then studied composition with Karl Faust, and continued his pianistic studies in the United States with Ilona Kabos and Claudio Arrau.

Szidon played with many renowned orchestras. In 1977, he completed a Southern Africa tour. He was the soloist at the premiere of Camargo Guarnieri's Piano Concerto No. 4, in Porto Alegre, on 6 September 1972.

As a recording artist, Szidon was best known for his complete recording of the 10 Piano Sonatas and the Fantaisie in B minor by Alexander Scriabin and his complete recording of the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Rhapsodie espagnole by Franz Liszt.

Szidon recorded a prize-winning LP in 1965 of Heitor Villa-Lobos's Rudepoêma. Other Villa-Lobos works in his discography were A fiandeira, Saudades dos selvas brasileiras, New York Skyline (1957 version), Carnaval dos crianças, A lenda do caboclo, Suite floral, Op. 97 (1949 revision), and 16 Cirandas and 12 Cirandinhas. He also recorded the works of other Brazilian composers such as Ernesto Nazareth, Francisco Mignone and Chiquinha Gonzaga.

Szidon also recorded Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzos and 4 Impromptus (Deutsche Grammophon LP 536 378), Sergei Rachmaninoff's 2nd Sonata, Sergei Prokofiev's 6th Sonata, as well as Charles Ives's "Concord Sonata", Edward MacDowell's Second Concerto and Gershwin's Concerto in F.

He frequently performed and recorded chamber music with violinist Jenny Abel, and recorded with Thomas Quasthoff Schumann's Dichterliebe, Liederkreis, Op. 39, and other songs. He taught piano at the music academies in Hannover and Düsseldorf, where he was a professor of piano until his death.

Szidon died in December 2011, in Düsseldorf, Germany, of a heart attack, aged 70.

References

References

1. [http://www.answers.com/topic/roberto-szidon Answers.com]
2. [http://classicalmusicianstoza.blogspot.ca/2014/06/roberto-szidon-brazilian-pianist.html Roberto Szidon's tour of Southern Africa]
3. [http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.557667&catNum=557667&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English Naxos]
4. [http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=390401 ArkivMusik]
5. [http://www.rapidshareindex.com/Scriabin-Complete-Piano-Sonatas-Roberto-Szidon-DG-_374606.html Rapid Share Index]
6. [http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=5086 ArkivMusik]
7. [http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201976/106/734612/VILLALOBOS.+PIANO+WORKS.+Roberto+Szidon.+DG+2530+634+(%C2%A33.59). Gramophone, October 1976]{{dead link. (April 2018)
8. [http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/48319579-roberto-szidon-heitor-villa-lobos-cirandas-e trade bit] {{webarchive. link. (2011-07-24)
9. [http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/November%201969/78/739572/ROBERTO+SZIDON.+PIANO+RECITAL.+DGG+Debut+642104+(12s.+6d.). Gramophone, November 1969]{{dead link. (April 2018)
10. [http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=101163 ArkivMusik]
11. [http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=7003 ArkivMusik]

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