Alexis Weissenberg
Acting
July 26, 1929
Died January 8, 2012 (82 years old)
Sofia, Bulgaria
10
Acting Credits
Biography
Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg (26 July 1929 – 8 January 2012) was a Bulgarian-born French pianist. Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov, a Bulgarian composer. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. In 1941, he and his mother tried to escape from German-occupied Bulgaria for Turkey, but were caught and imprisoned in a makeshift concentration camp in Bulgaria for three months. A German guard – who ...
Known For
Filmography
Karajan In Concert
2008
as Self - Piano
Victoires de la musique
1985
as Self
3.3
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
6.8
Bio’s Bahnhof
1978
as Self
9
30 millions d'amis
1976
as Self
6.2
Numéro un
1975
as Self - Host
7.5
Numéro un
1975
as Self
7.5
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
8
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self - Main Guest
8
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)
1967
as soloist