Word: gulda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jean Helmatien Benda, a pupil of Edwin Fischer, although only in his mid-twenties, has an astounding technique. His only concert of this year in Geneva consisted of a well-planned and well-played program of Beethoven and Liszt. Far more astonishing is a 16-year-old Austrian, Friedrich Gulda, who won last fall's International Music Contest in Geneva hands down over 150 other pianists. He is still studying--and his technique shows it occasionally--but from the point of view of interpretation of a wide variety of composers, his three concerts were the best I have heard...