Spanish pianist de Larrocha dies
SPANISH: Alicia de Larrocha, a former child prodigy considered by
many to have been the best Spanish pianist in history, has died in
Barcelona at the age of 86, officials said.
“She was an extraordinary ambassador for Spain,” Culture Minister
Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde said in a news release following the death of the
petite pianist, who was less than 5-feet (1.52 m) tall, in Barcelona’s
Quiron Hospital on Friday night.
The Barcelona Symphony Orchestra was due to hold a minute’s silence
before this weekend’s performances in honour of de Larrocha, whose
public performances began at the age of six and stretched into her 80s,
state news agency EFE said.
“Spanish music is very, very, very hard,” she once said.
Madrid, Sunday, Reuters |
