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A Pianist Who Makes Longevity an Art

By HAROLD C. SCHONBERG

Published: April 22, 1990

LEAD: They talk about musicians who played from here to eternity - those great veterans like Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski, Arthur Rubinstein, Isidor Philipp, all of whom were active in their late 80's and even middle 90's. But their record is about to be shattered by Mieczyslaw Horszowski, who is giving a piano recital tomorrow in Carnegie

They talk about musicians who played from here to eternity - those great veterans like Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski, Arthur Rubinstein, Isidor Philipp, all of whom were active in their late 80's and even middle 90's. But their record is about to be shattered by Mieczyslaw Horszowski, who is giving a piano recital tomorrow in Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Horszowski, at 97, is still going strong, as he has been since he made his debut in Vienna in 1902 at the age of 10. He played a pair of Carnegie Hall concerts in 1906 - the year, coincidentally, in which Rubinstein made his American debut. This year he is rounding out 50 years of teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he lives, and he will be play a dozen or so concerts around the world. He is thinking ahead about an invitation from Poland, his native country, to return and give concerts.

He is a tiny man with tiny hands. Those hands, he says, were ''the most difficult things of my life.'' He cannot take more than a ninth - C to D - and that eliminates some of the big virtuoso pieces. Not that Mr. Horszowski cries about that; he is more a Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin pianist than a Liszt pianist, though in his day he has also played a great deal of contemporary music, including some imposing world premieres.

At first he was taught by his pianist mother, a pupil of Karl Mikuli, who had been a pupil of Chopin. Mieco (his nickname) would listen to his mother play or give lessons to his older sister, and when the room was empty, he would go to the piano and pick out the melodies he had just heard. He was 2 years old.

When he started serious study, around 4, his talent became obvious, and he was sent to Vienna at the age of 7 to study with the legendary Theodor Leschetizky. Mr. Horszowski is the last living Leschetizky pupil. Theodor Leschetizky! The teacher of Paderewski, Mark Hambourg, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Artur Schnabel, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Ignaz Friedman! Leschetizky died in Vienna in 1915, and Mr. Horszowski remembers him as though it were yesterday. But, then again, Mr. Horszowski seems to remember everything as

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