From Wikipedia
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.
A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age. Many well-known classical composers were also virtuoso pianists including:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
- Fryderyk Chopin,
- Ludwig Van Beethoven,
- Franz Liszt,
- Sergei Rachmaninoff,
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,
- Carl Maria von Weber,
- Charles-Valentin Alkan,
- Johannes Brahms,
- Ferruccio Busoni,
- Anton Rubinstein,
- Alexander Scriabin,
- Sergei Prokofiev,
- Dmitri Shostakovich,
- Claude Debussy
- Isaac Albeniz
- Cecil Licad
- Maksim Mrvica
- Bela Bartok
- Robert Schumann
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
List of classical pianists