Jacob Lateiner, a concert pianist renowned for his interpretations both of Beethoven and of 20th-century music, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 82 and lived in Manhattan.
His death was confirmed by the Juilliard School, at which Mr. Lateiner (pronounced la-TYE-ner) had taught from 1966 until his retirement last year. He was also a longtime faculty member of Mannes College the New School for Music.
Mr. Lateiner, who made his debut as a teenager in the 1940s, was a member of the cohort of young American pianists—or YAPs, as they were known to the classical-music trade—that included Eugene Istomin, Gary Graffman, Claude Frank and Leon Fleisher.
He was known in particular for his technical virtuosity, the beauty and flexibility of his tone and a deep musical understanding that was rooted in his fealty to the composer's original intent. (Mr. Lateiner was an avid collector of music manuscripts and first editions, over which he pored studiously before performing the work in question.)
As a soloist, Mr. Lateiner appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, among them the New York and Berlin Philharmonics, the Boston and Chicago Symphonies and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras. As a chamber musician, he performed frequently with the violinist Jascha Heifetz and the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
From: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=72105
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