Alexis Weissenberg: Bach/Liszt: Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543

Alexis Weissenberg (July 26, 1929 -- January 8, 2012) was a Bulgarian born French pianist. Born into a Jewish family in Bulgaria, 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 they were caught and imprisoned in a makeshift concentration camp in Bulgaria for three months. One day, a German guard - w