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The worst thing that can happen: For Elisabeth Leonskaja, it is the deceptive feeling of being infallible. She has been one of the most important pianists of our time for decades. If you include her first concert appearances as a child, her great career has already lasted almost 70 years. Yet she is careful not to take herself too seriously. Instead, she sees herself as being entirely at the service of the composers and musical works she interprets. On stage, she manages to remain modest and respectful behind the music, while still exuding an enormous presence. A few weeks shy of her 80th birthday, Elisabeth Leonskaja brings to the Alte Oper three of the most eccentric, profound and perhaps most difficult piano works of all: Beethoven's last sonatas, central stars of her repertoire.
