Pianist Abbey Simon

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Pianist

Abbey Simon

Living place: New York City

Birthday: 8-1-1922 (102 years old)

Population of US 1922: 110,049,000

Global rank: #50601

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Who is Pianist Abbey Simon?
Classical musician who is admired as a master supervirtuoso.
He recorded complete piano works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Ravel, and a large proportion of Brahms' and works by Schumann.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He won the 1940 Naumburg International Piano Competition.

Family life info

He began studying in five from David Saperton, and he was awarded a scholarship by Josef Hofmann when he was eight to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Pianist Abbey Simon?
He and Chick Corea both became internationally recognized pianists.

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Summary of Abbey Simon profile

When was Pianist Abbey Simon born?
Abbey Simon birthday 8-1-1922 (at the age of 102).
Where is Pianist Abbey Simon's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Abbey Simon was born in New York City, New York- United States. is a Pianist, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Abbey Simon's global rank is 50601 and whose rank is 134 in list of famous Pianist. Population of US in 1922 is about 110,049,000 persons.
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Events in 1922 and 8-1

Events in US in the birth year of Abbey Simon

  • Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (May 30).
  • Coal miners strike for nearly six months to protest wage cuts. The strike, one of several organized by the United Mine Workers of America since 1919, cripples the coal mining industry.

Birthday Abbey Simon (8-1) in history

  • Day 8-1 year 1815: The date of the Battle of New Orleans was the last battle of the War of 1812 between Great Britain and America.
  • Day 8-1 year 1918: Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.
  • Day 8-1 year 1958: Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
  • Day 8-1 year 1959: Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.
  • Day 8-1 year 1964: President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
  • Day 8-1 year 1982: The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."
  • Day 8-1 year 1998: The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.
  • Day 8-1 year 2011: Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.
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