CHOPIN - Piano Sonata No.3 (Alexei Sultanov) 1996 LIVE

Frédéric François Chopin (1810~1849) _ Piano Sonata No.3 00:01 Mov.1 Allegro maestoso 08:04 Mov.2 Scherzo. Molto vivace 10:33 Mov.3 Largo 18:56 Mov.4 Finale. Presto ma non tanto Piano : Alexei Sultanov Rec : Kioi Hall, Tokyo, Japan / LIVE ■ Biography Alexei Sultanov (Russian: Алексей Султанов; August 7, 1969 – June 30, 2005) was a Soviet and American (since 2004) classical pianist of Uzbek origin. Alexei Sultanov was born to a family of musicians, his father a cellist, his mother a violinist, both music teachers. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich and then with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory. At the age of thirteen he was a participant of the International Radio Competition for Young Musicians in Prague. He became famous after winning the Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition on June 11, 1989, at the age of 19, the youngest contestant in th