She has toured Europe, America and Japan with Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky and has also recorded much of the repertory for four hands and for two pianos with the pianists Nelson Freire, Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, Nicolas Economou and Alexandre Rabinovitch. She has also attached great importance to chamber music ever since, at the age of 17, she accompanied the violinist Joseph Szigeti - two generations older than herself. Martha Argerich has worked as a concert pianist with many famous conductors. But she does not regard herself as a specialist in 'virtuoso' works - her repertoire ranges from Bach through Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy and Ravel, to BartГіk. Martha Argerich rose to fame with her interpretations of the virtuoso piano literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her victory in the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1965 was a decisive step on her path to worldwide recognition. Following her first prizes in the piano competitions in Bolzano and Geneva in 1957, she embarked on an intensive programme of concerts.

In 1955 she went to Europe with her family, and received tuition from Friedrich Gulda in Vienna her teachers also included Nikita Magaloff and Stefan Askenase. From the age of five, she took piano lessons with Vicenzo Scaramuzza. Martha Argerich was born in Buenos Aires.

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