Artist

Vladimir Horowitz

Wins

25

Nominations

45

Category

Classical Music Video/Film

Biography

"Piano playing consists of common sense, heart, and technical resources. All three should be equally developed."

  • Born Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz on Oct. 1, 1903, in Kiev, Ukraine. Died Nov. 5, 1989, in New York City
     
  • Vladimir Horowitz made his U.S. debut at Carnegie Hall in 1928, playing Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1." That same year, the pianist's first gramophone recordings were made available in the United States for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
     
  • The 1943 live performance of the Tchaikovsky concerto featuring Horowitz and Arturo Toscanini was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 1998. Horowitz was honored with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990.
     
  • Did you know? With 25 GRAMMYs, Horowitz is among the top GRAMMY winners of all time. 

  • Horowitz and his wife, Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, worked with the Humane Society of New York to save the lives of dogs in need. The Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Adoption Center has helped to save the lives of thousands of dogs and cats.

All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz - Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Clementi). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    The Last Recording. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    The Last Recording (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz Plays Mozart (Album). Carlo Maria Giulini, Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 In B Flat, K. 333. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestr

    Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Best Performance Music Video

    Horowitz In Moscow (Video). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz In Moscow. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz In Moscow. Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost

  • Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Or Without Orchestra)

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985. Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz In London (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz At The Met (Works By Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt And Rachmaninoff) (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80 (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, John Pfeiffer

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79 (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, John Pfeiffer

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestr

    Rachmaninoff: Con. No. 3 In D Minor For Piano (Horowitz Golden Jubilee). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 In D Minor For Piano (Horowitz Golden Jubilee) (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, Eugene Ormandy, John Pfeiffer

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Concert Of The Century. Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside, Thomas Frost

  • Chamber Music Performance

    Rachmaninoff: Sonata For Cello And Piano In G Minor Op. 19-Andante/ Tchaikovsky: Trio For Piano In A Minor Op. 50 - Pezzo Elegiaco (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz Concerts 1975/76. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz Concerts 1975/76 (Schumann, Scriabin) (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, John Pfeiffer

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 In C Major ("Waldstein") And 23 In F Minor ("Appassionata") (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Scriabin: Horowitz Plays Scriabin. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz Plays Chopin (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost, Richard Killough

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz Plays Chopin. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas). Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost, Richard Killough

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Or Without Orchestra)

  • Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Or Without Orchestra)

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz In Concert (Album). Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost

  • Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Or Without Orchestra)

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return. Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    The Sound Of Horowitz (Works Of Schumann, Scarlatti, Schubert, Scraibin) (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    The Sound Of Horowitz. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz. Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Homage To Liszt (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Pictures At An Exhibition (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestr

    Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto # 1 (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

    Horowitz Plays Chopin (Album). Vladimir Horowitz

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