Pianist André Watts, a major soloist and one of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s most popular guests, has died. He was 77.
André Watts, 77, a piano prodigy who received his training in Philadelphia and went on to become one of the very few Black instrumentalists with a major solo career, died July 12 in Bloomington, Ind. His death was announced by the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he had been on the faculty since 2004. He died of prostate cancer, his manager said.
Even as a child, he had the “gift of poetry,” Philadelphia Orchestra associate conductor William Smith told The Inquirer in 1984. ‘’You knew immediately that this was a big talent, that he would have a career.” A little more than two weeks later, he was waiting for his lesson at the Philadelphia Musical Academy when the manager of the New York Philharmonic called, inviting him back to step in for an ailing Glenn Gould. His career was launched.Mr. Watts was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1946, and at age 8 moved to Philadelphia with his family and piano into a rowhouse at 62nd and Market Streets.
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