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It is with infinite sadness that we learned this weekend of the death of the great pianist Nelson Freire. Everything has been said about the extraordinary career of this brilliant artist, a child prodigy, a student of Guiomar Novaes, who left his native Brazil to train in Vienna with Bruno Seidlhofer, thus synthesizing the great tradition of European Romanticism and South American influences. And as he loved to marry these two heritages in his programs, to the great delight of listeners in the greatest halls in the world, captivated by a vast and original repertoire, by a...