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 Winner

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

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    The Last Recording

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    The Last Recording (Album)

    Thomas Frost, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz Plays Mozart (Album)

    Thomas Frost, Carlo Maria Giulini, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr

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

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestr Winner

    Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Best Performance Music Video

    Horowitz In Moscow (Video)

    Peter Gelb, Brian Large, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    Horowitz In Moscow

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album Winner

    Horowitz In Moscow

    Thomas Frost, Vladimir Horowitz

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

    Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album Winner

    Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985

    Thomas Frost, Vladimir Horowitz

  • 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)

    John Pfeiffer, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79 (Album)

    John Pfeiffer, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestr Winner

    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)

    John Pfeiffer, Eugene Ormandy, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album Winner

    Concert Of The Century

    Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Frost, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Horowitz

  • 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)

    Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    Horowitz Concerts 1975/76

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz Concerts 1975/76 (Schumann, Scriabin) (Album)

    John Pfeiffer, Vladimir Horowitz

  • 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 Winner

    Scriabin: Horowitz Plays Scriabin

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz Plays Chopin (Album)

    Thomas Frost, Richard Killough, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    Horowitz Plays Chopin

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album Winner

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

    Thomas Frost, Richard Killough, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

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

    Vladimir Horowitz

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

    Schumann: Kreisleriana (Album)

    Vladimir Horowitz

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

    Horowitz On Television (Chopin, Scriabin, Scarlatti, Horowitz)

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album

    Horowitz In Concert (Album)

    Thomas Frost, Vladimir Horowitz

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

    Horowitz In Concert (Haydn, Schumann, Scriabin, Debussy, Mozart, Chopin)

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album Winner

    Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return

    Thomas Frost, Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    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 Winner

    The Sound Of Horowitz

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Classical Album Winner

    Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestr Winner

    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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