Musicians are exceptionally attuned to their surroundings, so they say. Here are 12 composers, performers, conductors, and otherwise great musicians who were blessed (or cursed) with perfect pitch in their careers.
Inon Barnatan
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Pierre Boulez
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Glenn Gould
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Marc-André Hamelin
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Yo-Yo Ma
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Lorin Maazel
“I’m afraid I have it, but there is a degree of highly developed relative pitch that is essentially the same thing.”
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Sviatoslav Richter
Richter revealed that his perfect pitch went out of tune in later life, calling the phenomenon “a disaster.”
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Arthur Rubenstein
“You see, I never had any false modesty. I was sure of myself. I had perfect pitch – indeed, I had everything necessary for a musician.”
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Camille Saint-Saëns
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Michael Tilson Thomas
Pinchas Zukerman
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