{"id":16262,"date":"2026-05-28T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/?page_id=16262"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:52:10","slug":"andre-watts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/music\/exhibits\/black-music\/andre-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Music: Andr\u00e9 Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Andr\u00e9

Andr\u00e9 Watts, an American classical pianist.
Photo by: James Kriegsmann, New York CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 Watts<\/strong> (June 20, 1946 \u2013 July 12, 2023) was an American classical pianist. Over the six decades of his career, Watts performed as soloist with every major American orchestra and most of the world’s finest orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and London Symphony Orchestra. Watts recorded a variety of repertoire, concentrating on Romantic era composers such as Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin and Franz Liszt, but also including George Gershwin. In 2020, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He won a Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist in 1964. Watts was also on the faculty at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.
Source: Wikipedia<\/p>\n

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Andre\u0301 Watts plays Liszt. Album 2.<\/a>
<\/strong>Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.; Watts, Andre.; Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.
\u21171986
Schwarz CD 31<\/p>\n

Andre\u0301 Watts plays Liszt. Album 1.<\/a>
<\/strong>Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.; Watts, Andre.; Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.
\u21171986
Circ CD 7199<\/p>\n

The Chopin recital.<\/a>
<\/strong>Chopin, Fre\u0301de\u0301ric, 1810-1849.; Watts, Andre.; Chopin, Fre\u0301de\u0301ric, 1810-1849.
\u21171992
Circ CD 1583<\/p>\n

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Liszt’s greatest hits.<\/a><\/strong>
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.; Philadelphia Orchestra.; New York Philharmonic.; Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924.; Watts, Andre.; Davis, Ivan.; Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985.; Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.; Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.
1971
LP 4928<\/p>\n

Reflections from the keyboard : the world of the concert pianist<\/strong> <\/a>
Dubal, David, author.
1984
ML 397. D82 1984<\/p>\n

Great pianists speak for themselves<\/strong> <\/a>
Mach, Elyse.; Solti, Georg, 1912-1997, writer of introduction.
\u00a91980-\u00a91988
ML 397 .M28 v.1<\/p>\n

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Blacks in classical music : a personal history<\/strong> <\/a>
Abdul, Raoul.
\u00a91977
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Naxos Music Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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