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  • wow, this video is like a time travel...unbelievable to see Horowitz at this time!

    Thanks very much for posting this treasure! :-)

  • Wow that black guy riffing with horowitz (and it looking playing the same things one right after the other) could absolutely be Art Tatum who was 20 at the time and working in the local area... To dream....

  • EXCERPTS FROM CHOPIN SONATA N.3

    I LOVE YOU

  • it s always interesting to se how a pianist sits or hold his arms at keyboard .This s so informal so maybe not informative but still worthwhie & nice to have posted here.Thanks!

  • Thanks so much for posting this video! Interesting footage of a pianist who was certainly interesting, to put it mildly.

  • You know, ladies and gentlemen, how great pianner players, are often diplomatists first and are often the progenitors of war ...

  • schmuck

  • great post - love to see how famous people were in their private lives - makes them real for me

  • wow, he was quite handsome in his youth...

  • What an elegant man he was!

  • what a pimp

  • A Time Warp!

    What a treat. Thank you.

  • Beautiful film.

    It captures the ambiance of an era.

    It is like looking through a window - a time capsule.

  • It doesn't look as if Horowitz was really playing anything. Probably musical bantering to impress the ladies.

  • I don't think Horowitz cared much for ladies...just sayin'

  • true...

  • What's better than a silent movie of a piano player? An audio recording of a Playboy Centerfold.

  • lol totally rite

  • or a black and white pic of a rainbow

    HA

    sorry, that took me like twenty minutes to come up with lol

  • Mine was a spontaneous gesture of long held irritation, that the most fabulous pianist of the 20th century, or ever, was filmed as a silent movie star. There's just somthing so perverse in that, beyond measure.

  • except.... STARDOM back then was very meaningful. Stardom now is meaningless

  • Too bad there's no sound. I'd love to hear what he's playing.

  • I hadn't noticed before that toward the end he is playing four hands with an african-american pianist whom I do not recognize.

  • antipodeanally opposed to the proverbial 'polar bear in a snowstorm' ? wink wink

  • bunch of yuppies insulting his majesty

  • wonderful

  • I'm fascinated with the history of your father, thank you very much for sharing it

  • what a flamer

  • wow, fantastic....

  • Nice video and Info ^^, by the way do ya have the copy? I'd like to have

  • amazing! the young Horowitz was a pianistic phenomenon. thanks for posting.

  • He is using glasses?! But never in later years I think. How bad was his eyesight? Did he use lenses as an older man? Does anyone know?

  • any need for the language??

  • Great imagery but it's a bit torturous without the sound.

  • Thanks for posting this video and the information.

  • lol wheneva the cam gets on horowitz you can tell he notices and really starts playing gotta love it.

  • Precious...even there is no sound.Thanks a lot!!

  • It is exclusive! He was 25-26 years old! Thanks for the video.

  • Of course, sound would be wonderful, but sound for home movies would not come for another 50 years. Sorry.

  • i suppose this would be better with sound...

  • je n'ai pas le son non plus :(

  • Thanks very much for showing this. I am an enormous fan of Vladimir Horowitz.

  • holy crap. thanks for posting this.

  • This is truly remarkable footage. Thank you very much for posting it, and also for posting the background information. I'll be looking forward to your other postings with enormous interest.

  • Wow! Does anyone know what he's playing? It's great to see his technique when it was at its perfection.

    Also, for the others, the reason it probably doesn't have sound is because most home 'camcorders' didn't have sound back then.

  • What use is this? It is INAUDIBLE. Please post it again, so that we may hear his playing.

    Thanks.

  • Superb unbelievable archive! Except that I must agree with Yervand, that I CANNOT hear A SINGLE THING!

  • i can't hear the sound

  • Horowitz was a stud in every way. It would be sooo great if there would have been footage like this in Chopin's days.

  • Very, very interesting!

  • Love reading the text info you provide. Most interesting.

  • I am sorry to say, but his to playing greatly overshadows his looks. He is special in the sense that he actually looks better as an old man.

  • Horowitz looks like a young Basil Rathbone !

  • amazing! it's so exciting to see the young Horowitz.

  • hey can i hv the sheet please....

  • Even silent his piano playing is just elextrifying!!

  • grazie, grazie,grazie!!!!

    che darei per sentirlo suonare!!!!

  • Molte grazie!

  • Thank you so much for sharing your father's treasures.

  • Remarkable. What I wouldn't give to actually hear what's he's playing...

  • All great pianists are silent in the end...

  • poetry.

  • So is everyone else, genius!!!

  • Good point. I stand 'corrected'.

  • I agree. What I wouldn't give to hear that. Amazing. Only think lacking is the sound.

  • Thank you for the posting, what a treat!

  • Thank you! Please see other videos, esp of my father, and share/forward.

    David

  • Wow! Great video. BTW, that's Fritz Reiner chatting with Horowitz after the "one year later" title card! Reiner was Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony at that time.

  • Thanks so much for the information!

  • Wow! Where did this come from? I never heard of it before.

  • Horowitz's American debut was at Carnegie Hall in 1928. He then went to Cincinnati. Ohio and played at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with the Cincinnati Symphony. After the concert he was at a party at the home of Dr. Karol Liszniewkski--my late father's music teacher. This movie was shot in 1928, and then in 1929. This video, and many others I will soon post, show the era of classical piano. Rate, share & enjoy! See the recent Reflections in the Water video as well. Best regards, David

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