Not because of the youthful flair he exudes from every pore, but because he is fearless. He fears Beethoven sonatas as little as Chinese folklore and plays Disney songs as sparklingly as Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto. By the way, he mastered this concerto at lightning speed as a child by imitating the video recording of piano legend Vladimir Horowitz. Lang Lang owes his own legendary status to this piano concerto: at the age of 17, he stepped in as a soloist at the “Gala of the Century,” not only triggering invitations from the world’s best orchestras as the first Chinese pianist but also sparking a piano-playing boom in his home country. In his early 40s, Lang Lang is now one of the most renowned pianists of the present, an ambassador of music far beyond the classical scene. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk, he said, “Whether classical or pop, music is the strongest art form to connect everyone together.”

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