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For the Record …. Historic West Bank Performance. Emotional at times and always a perfectionist, Daniel Barenboim has graced the concert stages of Europe , Asia , North America , Australia , and the Middle East , performing in parallel careers both as an inspired pianist and as a respected conductor. Barenboim, an Israeli musician born in Argentina during World War II , began his musical career as a young piano prodigy in the late s.

He debuted in concert at age seven, thereafter spending much of the s in studies with the greatest teachers and musicians of the time. In the early s, Barenboim embarked on a conducting career, performing a London debut in with the New Philharmonic Orchestra. In , Barenboim assumed command of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , and in the following year he took control of the State Opera of Berlin.

Included in his extensive repertoire — both as pianist and as conductor — were the 32 sonatas and five concertos of Ludwig von Beethoven. He distinguished himself in performing those works on the piano under the direction of Otto Klemperer and in conducting the compositions with the late Arthur Rubenstein at piano. In he attempted a piano performance of the five concertos while conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Barenboim was born on November 15, , in Buenos Aires , Argentina. He began his musical studies at age five. During those early years he studied under the direction of his Russian-Jewish parents, Enrique and Aida Schuster Barenboim, each of whom were accomplished pianists. In Paris, the boy was recognized as a prodigy, and having performed his first concert in South America at age seven he then debuted in Vienna in at nine years of age.

He was ten years old at the time of the move to the Middle East , and as in Europe, his talent as a prodigy was readily apparent.