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Byron Janis (born March 24, 1928) is an American classical pianist. He made several recordings for RCA Victor and Mercury Records, and occupies two volumes of the Philips series Great Pianists of the 20th Century.

His discography covers repertoire from Bach to David W. Guion and includes major piano concertos from Mozart to Rachmaninoff and Liszt to Prokofiev.

Janis was born Byron Yanks (a shortened form of his family's name, Yankelevitch) in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents of Russian and Polish descent. When he was 2 years old, the family moved to Pittsburgh. He was considered to be a child prodigy and was given his first piano lesson at age 5 with Abraham Litow, who had studied at the prestigious Music Conservatory in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Janis studied with Litow until he was 8 years old.  At this point Litow called Josef and Rosina Lhevinne, then residing in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, asking if they would hear Janis play. They did and Janis began two years of study with the Lhevinnes.

At 11, Janis permanently lost sensation in his left little finger due to an accident. In 1942, he made his orchestral debut playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in New York with Toscanini's NBC Orchestra. When Janis was 16, Vladimir Horowitz heard his performance of the same concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by 15-year-old Lorin Maazel and invited Janis to be his first student. He studied with Horowitz for four years and also with Franz Mohr, the famed piano technician at Steinway Pianos. He remained a close friend and one of only three students ever acknowledged by Horowitz-the other two being Gary Graffman and Ronald Turini. ~ wiki

what is a legacy of a legend? virtuosic pianist as mr. janis has overcome the obstacles of performing with psoratic athritis to become also a composer, an educator, and a humanitarian... :)

listen to byron's great playing of chopin, with sensation of only nine fingers