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John Browning Obituary
SISTER BAY, Wis. (AP) John Browning, a Grammy-winning pianist who performed professionally for six generations, died Sunday. He was 69.
His style was reserved, elegant and penetrating, more intellectual than overtly emotional yet eminently approachable.
He stole the spotlight in 1956 with a silver medal in the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels. He made his professional orchestral debut with the New York Philharmonic that same year. Browning gave the premiere of Samuel Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning Piano Concerto in 1962.
which was written for him, in connection with the opening of Lincoln Center.
His second recording of the work, with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony in 1991 won a Grammy for best instrumental soloist with orchestra. Mr. Browning won a second Grammy in 1993.
Browning gave about 100 concerts a season, before easing his schedule in the 1970s.
Over the last decade his career had something of a renaissance. He was to play 22 concerts this season, but he had begun canceling them because of back pains even before his final heart problems developed in November.
His last performance was, by invitation, at the United States Supreme Court in May.
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