Nearly five years after his death, Vladimir Horowitz continues to exert a fascination ... tome by Glenn Plaskin and a definitive musical biography by Harold C. Schonberg. Just when you thought ...

Soon after, the formidable wife of Vladimir Horowitz, arguably the greatest concert pianist of all time -- whose centennial was celebrated Wednesday -- invited me to become his manager.

But it also manifests the power of performance, in that it demonstrates how a work’s biography can veer when an inimitable artist gets hold of it. In 1944, Vladimir Horowitz, a recently ...

Vladimir Horowitz , whom many identify as the greatest pianist of his day, quietly recorded all of his Carnegie Hall recitals in the 1940s as a private reference library. He analyzed them with ...