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- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1929-07-26
- Day of Death2012-01-08 (82 years)
- Place of BirthSofia, Bulgaria
- Also Known As-
Alexis Weissenberg
Biography
Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg (26 July 1929 – 8 January 2012) was a Bulgarian-born French pianist. Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov, a Bulgarian composer. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. In 1941, he and his mother tried to escape from German-occupied Bulgaria for Turkey, but were...Read More