Greatest classical pianists

selected by Piero Scaruffi
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  1. Vladimir Horowitz
  2. Arthur Rubinstein (Poland, 1887)
  3. Sviatoslav Richter
  4. Emil Gilels
  5. Martha Argerich (Argentina, 1941)
  6. Claudio Arrau
  7. Friedrich Gulda
  8. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
  9. Alfred Cortot
  10. Sergei Rachmaninov
  11. Artur Schnabel
  12. Dinu Lipatti
  13. Vladimir Ashkenazy
  14. Alfred Brendel
  15. Glenn Gould
  16. Maurizio Pollini
  17. Andras Schiff
  18. Radu Lupu (Romania)
  19. Alexander Malofeev (Russia, 2001)
  20. Martino Tirimo (Cyprus, 1942)
  21. Daniel Barenboim
  22. Murray Perahia
  23. Jean-Yves Thibaudet
  24. Mitsuko Uchida
  25. Rudolph Serkin
  26. Wilhelm Kempff
  27. Aldo Ciccolini
  28. Josef Hofmann
  29. Katia Buniatischvili (Georgia, 1987)
  30. Walter Gieseking
  31. Edwin Fischer
  32. Ignaz Friedman
  33. Lang Lang (China, 1982)
  34. Daniil Trifonov (Russia, 1991)
  35. Krystian Zimerman
  36. Wilhelm Backhaus
  37. Clara Haskill
  38. Evgueni Kissin
  39. Lazar Berman
  40. Nikolai Lugansky
  41. Ferruccio Busoni
  42. Alice Ott (Germany, 1988)
  43. Yeol Eum Sun (Korea, 1986)
  44. Valentina Lisitsa (Ukraine, 1977)
  45. Yunchan Lim (Korea)
  46. Alexei Grynyuk (Ukraine)
  47. Yuja Wang (China, 1987)
  48. Georges Cziffra
  49. Helene Grimaud (France, 1969)

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