
Known for
Acting
Born
February 6, 1903
Birthplace
Chillán, Biobío, Chile
Died
June 9, 1991 (aged 88)
Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.
Arrau was born in Chillán, Chile, to Carlos Arrau, an ophthalmologist who died when Claudio was only one year old, and Lucrecia León Bravo de Villalba, a piano teacher. He belonged to an old, prominent family of Southern Chile. His ancestor Lorenzo de Arrau was a Spanish engineer who was sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain. Through his great-g...
2003
as Self - Piano
1993
as Self (archive footage)
1987
as Self
1978
1976
as Self - Interviewee
1972
1950
as Self
1935
as Franz Liszt
1935