John Browning
The American pianist John Browning died on 26 January 2003, aged 69. Born in Denver in 1933, Browning began his piano studies at the age of five, made his début at the age of ten with the Denver Symphony in Mozart's Coronation Concerto, studied at the Juilliard School with Rosina Lhévinne and won a silver medal in the 1956 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Samuel Barber wrote his Piano Concerto specifically for Browning, who gave the work its première in 1962. Browning's first Grammy in 1991 was for a performance of this concerto with his friend Leonard Slatkin and the St Louis Symphony. His recordings of other Barber works attracted a second Grammy in 1993.
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Posted: 30 January 2003
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