Alfred Cortot plays Chopin | History of Music

6.7K views · 156 reactions | Remembering the death of Alfred Cortot on June 15, 1962, 53 years ago. Cortot plays Chopin's Waltz in A flat major, Op.69, No.1 "Farewell Waltz" in 1943. | Meloclassic | Facebook

Alfred Cortot: Master Class on Schumann Kinderszenen (1953) His playing was sublime. But Cortot was a difficult man. There is a story, while touring with the Thibaut, Cortot trio in Europe, he was so fussy about everything, from food to accomodation, to - well - everything, that one night in the hotel, Casals and Thibaut took the bathroom sign off the bathroom door and stuck it on the door of Cortot's room. The next morning, so the story goes, he was ashen and with bags under his eves. He hadn't