LORD, BYRON
A rare pupil of Vladimir Horowitz, classical pianist Byron Janis was a child prodigy on the ivories who became an American hero for wooing Soviet audiences under a US-Soviet cultural exchange programme. An expert on Chopin, he had in fact discovered four hitherto-unknown manuscripts of waltzes by ol’ Frédéric. Arthritis tickled his own ivories, but he overcame the condition and continued to perform until his final days. He was 95 and unique for My Wife Left Me. Presumably not the same ex-wife picked in the 2000 DDP.
Byron Janis
24 March 1928 – 14 March 2024, aged 95
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