Moravec performed major recital works by Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, and Mozart, as well as Czech composers. Moravec's international concert career was launched. In 1962 he traveled to New York to create the first of many recordings for that label, and in 1964 George Szell invited him to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra. Soon afterwards, Connoisseur Society, a small American audiophile record company, negotiated with the Czech authorities to engage the young Moravec. In the late 1950s, an audio tape of a Prague recital was circulated in America. In 1957, after hearing Moravec play in Prague, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli invited him to attend master classes in Arezzo that summer. At twenty, he entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he studied with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, daughter of Vilém Kurz. Moravec later began piano studies with Erna Grünfeld (niece of the Austrian pianist Alfred Grünfeld). His father was an amateur pianist and singer, and helped his son sight-read and sing through the opera scores. His first musical interest was in opera, which he attended as a child with his father. He is considered one of the greatest interpreters of Chopin. Media and critics worldwide often called Moravec "a poet of the piano" or "pianist supreme". Ivan Moravec (9 November 1930 – 27 July 2015) was a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career spanned nearly half a century.
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