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Cortot

British  
/ kɔrto /

noun

  1. Alfred (alfrɛd). 1877–1962, French pianist, born in Switzerland

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Listen to 1920s and ’30s recordings of the pianist Alfred Cortot, immensely respected in his day.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2011

They blamed the first on the breathless pat-a-pat reading of Conductor Damrosch, the second on the frigid finger tips of Pianist Cortot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chief among these in world prestige was probably the brilliant 66-year-old pianist Alfred Cortot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Madame Lubin is now in a collaborators' concentration camp near Bordeaux; Lifar and Cortot are under house arrest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cortot has gone so far as to declare that he recognizes the stage as one used by a now out-of-business minor moviemaker with whom Cortot had various dealings several decades ago.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick