Word: arezzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Withdrawing to a mansion in Arezzo with his pianist wife, he established a renowned year-round school for some 40 hand-picked students, including Argentina's Martha Argerich, who this year won Poland's prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition (TIME, March 26). More like a Renaissance patron than a schoolmaster, Michelangeli also instructed his students in the selection of fine wines and gourmet foods ("I cannot teach if I cannot also teach the art of living and cooking...
Hailed as "the new Liszt" at 19, Michelangeli has toured erratically and temperamentally, but today, at 40, is known chiefiy among other leading pianists. Perhaps his most important work: his year-round classes for hand-picked students from all over the world. At his summer home in Arezzo near Florence last week, Michelangeli was presiding over his latest international class of 34, enforcing iron discipline but treating musical problems with immense patience. He can dismiss a student at a moment's notice if he fails to show the "talent and good will"; yet he never takes fees from those...