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    Sep 03, 2020 2 minutes

    Leon Fleisher Born 1928 Pianist

    onductor Pierre Monteux is said to have hailed the teenage Fleisher as ‘the pianistic find of the century’. Indeed, the young pianist performed under Monteux with the San Francisco Symphony aged just 14, though he had made his public debut

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