LISZTS | Classical Musicians With Perfect Pitch (Part I)

Jennifer Liu

7 years ago

Musicians are exceptionally attuned to their surroundings, so they say. Here are 12 composers, performers, conductors, and otherwise great musicians who were blessed (or cursed) with perfect pitch in their careers.

Inon Barnatan

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Pierre Boulez

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Glenn Gould

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Marc-André Hamelin

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Yo-Yo Ma

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Lorin Maazel

“I’m afraid I have it, but there is a degree of highly developed relative pitch that is essentially the same thing.”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Sviatoslav Richter

Richter revealed that his perfect pitch went out of tune in later life, calling the phenomenon “a disaster.”

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Arthur Rubenstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Photo courtesy Dutch National Archives)

“You see, I never had any false modesty. I was sure of myself. I had perfect pitch – indeed, I had everything necessary for a musician.”

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Camille Saint-Saëns

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Michael Tilson Thomas

Pinchas Zukerman

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Jennifer Liu

Jennifer holds a master's degree in piano performance and is pursuing her degree in journalism at Carleton University. Previously, she lived for classical music in Toronto and Montreal.