Daniel Barenboim: My life with Martha Argerich
mainThe conductor has written an affecting memoir of his life history with his fellow-Argentine pianist.
I’ve known Martha Argerich since 1949. There was a house in Buenos Aires, owned by a former violinist and businessman, where chamber music was played every Friday. All the great musicians who came to Argentina – Adolph Busch, Igor Markevitch, Sergiu Celibidache – could be found there. That’s where I first met Martha. I was seven, she was eight. We played together underneath the piano…. There is hardly anyone I have known for so long.
Read on here (auf Deutsch).
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