Vladimir Horowitz was one of the most famous pianists of his generation. He preferred performing to teaching, and only took on a handful of students over the course of his career. The count of how many varies, because Horowitz was

The film Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic begins with a shot of a frail elderly man in the back of a taxi. “Mr. Horowitz, you look very, very good,” a voice says offscreen. Thirty seconds later, we cut to the

From his earliest days, the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz wanted to be a composer/performer in the great tradition of Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In fact, despite his early successes as a pianist, Horowitz always claimed “he wanted to be