Alicia de Larrocha
History will record pianist and composer Alicia de Larrocha - born in Barcelona,
Spain on May 23, 1923 - as one of the most important and influential Spanish
musicians of all time. Winner of multiple Grammy and Edison Awards, Alicia de
Larrocha was a child prodigy who, from the age of three, studied under the
gifted Catalan pianist Frank Marshall. She performed her first public concert at
the age of six in 1929 when Seville hosted the World's Fair. A year later she
began composing her own works and, although she never performed her own
compositions in public, she bequeathed them ...
