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The article published on the news website Los Angeles Times on May 27, 2013 is called «Behind the candelabra: Liberace'sbling a legacy to classical music». The article opens the secrets about the life or the profound pianist Valentino Liberace. We knew, that as a kind, he was overprotected by his mother and some people considered that he was mummy's boy.However, Liberace smiled at anyone who showed any interest in him for any reason whatsoever. He was an open-hearted person. Liberace began playing the piano at age four. His father took his children to concerts to further expose them to music, but he was also a taskmaster demanding high standards from the children in practice and performance. Liberace's prodigious talent was in evidence early. He memorized difficult pieces by age seven. He studied the technique of the famous Polish pianist and later family friend Ignacy Paderewski and at eight met him backstage at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. As Liberace hardly invented showmanship, he borrowed some Paderewski's technique and interpretations.


The article draws a conclusion that Liberace found a way to sell himself on image and charm. It worked spectacularly well. He was for a period the highest-paid entertainer on television. The clothes and lifestyle became his form of artistic expression. But he got caught in what he ultimately called an unending trap of continually having to outdo himself, forced to become more and more extreme to renew his act.


To sum it up I’d like to give you some more information about the greates person of tke last epoch.So,Valentino Liberace,best known as Liberace, was an American pianist and vocalist.In a career that spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, motion pictures, television, and endorsements, Liberace became world-famous. During the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world and embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage.He publicly denied being gay during his lifetime, and sued those who said he was. Towards the end of his life his chauffeur, Scott Thorson, sued him for palimony. He died of an AIDS-related illness in 1987.