Emil Gilels

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels. Gilels was born in Odessa (now part of Ukraine) to a musical family. He began studying the piano at the age of five under Yakov Tkach, who was a student of the French pianists Raoul Pugno[5] and Alexander Villoing Thus, through Tkach, Gilels had a pedagogical genealogy stretching back to Frédéric Chopin, via Pugno, and to Muzio Clementi, via Villoing.

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