Pietro Scarpini
1911–1997 (age 86)
Biography
Pietro Scarpini (Roma, 6 April 1911 – Firenze, 27 November 1997) was an Italian classical pianist, harpsichordist, composer and conductor, who had an international performing career as a pianist from the late 1930s to the late 1960s. He was particularly known for interpreting 20th-century repertoire, including Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire and Busoni's "vast and fiendishly difficult" Piano Concerto.