Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.
Also the man who suggested to the Bösendorfer company that they make a piano with 97 keys, a full 8 octaves, down to bottom C (C0). They took up his advice and the Imperial Bösendorfer became, and still is their flagship model. Sometimes called the Rolls Royce of pianos…
He was a child prodigy and if my memory serves me correctly, wrote a piano concerto when he was around 12 years old.
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