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Claudio Abbado


I have known Claudio Abbado since the beginning of the 1950s, at the time he studied the piano with Gulda at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1956, we both participated in a conducting course in Siena and since then, we have shared a long musical and human friendship. I treasure many special memories, most recently of course of his return to the Scala in Milan in 2012 when we performed together …

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