Jorge Bolet
Musicians · conductor · music educator · music teacher · pianist · university teacher
Cuban-born American pianist and teacher
About Jorge Bolet
Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914 – October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American concert pianist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter a renowned pupil of Franz Liszt.
Quick facts
- Known for
- Complete Decca Recordings, Bolet at Carnegie Hall, The Complete RCA and CBS Album Collection
- Born
- 1914-11-15
- Died
- 1990-10-16
- Artist type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- La Habana
- Associated area
- United States
- Active period
- 1914-11-15 – 1990-10-16
- MusicBrainz description
- Cuban‐born American virtuoso pianist and teacher, 1914–1990
- Genres
- classical
- Music tags
- american pianist, classical, pianist, piano
- ISNI
- 0000000073662241
Official & social profiles
External & source links
Jorge Bolet gallery
Albums, releases & recordings
Complete Decca Recordings
Bolet at Carnegie Hall
The Complete RCA and CBS Album Collection
The Last Romantic
Liebestraum and other Piano Works / Hungarian Rhapsody no. 12 / La campanella
Famous Piano Works
The Piano Concertos: Klavierkonzerte / Totentanz / Wanderer Fantasy / Malédiction / Hungarian Fantasy
Piano Works, vol. 7
Piano Concertos
Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet
Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in C minor / Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
The Piano Works, Volume 5: Années de pèlerinage – Suisse
The Piano Works, Volume 2: Schubert Song Transcriptions
The Piano Works, Volume 1
Doce estudios de ejecución trascendente
Concert Studies / Consolations / Réminiscences de Don Juan
The Piano Works, Volume 4: Années de pèlerinage – Italie
Totentanz. Malédiction. Fantasia On Hungarian Folk Themes (Fantaisie Sur Airs Populaires Hongrois, Ungarische Fantasie)
Jorge Bolet Plays Liszt
The Piano Works, Volume 6: Venezia e Napoli / Ballade no. 2 / Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este / Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Klavierkonzerte
Liebestraum: Favourite Piano Works
Paraphrases
Bolet Rediscovered: Liszt Recital
Ètudes d'exécution transcendante, S139
Piano Concertos | Années De Pèlerinage | 'Tannhäuser' Ouverture (The RIAS Recordings Vol.II)
Concertos
Études & Waltzes
Piano Concertos 1 & 2
Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume 10: Jorge Bolet I
Sgambati: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 15 / Rheinberger: Piano Concerto in A-flat, op. 94
Song Without End
Ballades / Barcarolle / Fantaisie Op. 49
Piano Favourites
24 Preludes, Op. 28 / Ballades Nos. 2 & 4, etc
Piano Concertos
Encores
Symphony / Symphonic Variations
Nocturne - Favourite Chopin
Sonata in B Minor, Valse impromptu, Liebestraume
Jorge Bolet playing the music of Franz Liszt
16 Préludes
24 Preludes op. 28, 4 Nocturnes
"Chopin" Variations, 5 Preludes, Melodie, Liebeslied, Liebesfreud
The Virtuoso Piano Paraphrases / Consolations / Rêve d'amour no. 3
Carnaval / Fantasie in C major
Jorge Bolet: Volume 2
Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4; Barcarolle; Fantaisie
Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume 11: Jorge Bolet II
Klavierkonzert / Cellokonzert / Introduction & Allegro für Klavier & Orchester
A Liszt Recital: Sonata in B Minor / Funerailles / Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Piano Works
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2
A Chopin Piano Recital
Sinfonia in Re minore – Variazioni sinfoniche
Liszt, Franck, Mendelssohn