Cortot

/ kɔrto /

noun

1. CortotAlfred18771962MFrenchSwissMUSIC: pianist Alfred (alfrɛd). 1877–1962, French pianist, born in Switzerland

Example Sentences

He sat by an open window, sipping his coffee, and imagined how Rue Cortot had looked when Monsieur Renoir ate his breakfast here more than a century before.

From Literature

Warner and Eloquence have since separately boxed their catalogs of his pre- and post-Boston releases, giving a sense of Munch from his first sessions, with the pianist Alfred Cortot in Saint-Saëns in 1935, to his last, with the Orchestre de Paris in Ravel in 1968.

From New York Times

Her other teachers were legendary, too - Josef Hoffman, Alfred Cortot, Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel; and she studied alongside Samuel Barber, hearing his world-famous Adagio for Strings in the classroom, before it even had its title.

From BBC

The portrait came to Christie's from the collection of Alfred Cortot, a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor.

From BBC

The research chief said, “We at last managed, Mr. Friendly, to track down a former Hollywood special-effects man, a Mr. Wade Cortot, who flatly states, from his years of experience, that the figure of ‘Mercer’ could well be merely some bit player marching across a sound stage.

From Literature