🎼Historical Footage Series 🎶 Emil Gilels, age 61, performing Chopin’s Polonaise in A-flat major “Heroic” (Op. 53), in Moscow, 1977. • Gilels was born in 1916 in Odessa, Ukraine. After his parents discovered he had perfect pitch at the age of five, he began piano lessons with Yakov Tkach, a famous piano pedagogue in Odessa. Gilels was a quick learner and made rapid progress, later crediting this strict training with Tkach for establishing the foundation of his technique and in turn, Tkach comme

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