- Aldo Ciccolini was born on August 15, 1925 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is known for The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), About Schmidt (2002) and Hugo (2011). He died on February 1, 2015 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur in 2012.
- He frequently played and recorded French composers, notably Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Emmanuel Chabrier, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet.
- In 1949, co-winner of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris.
- He became a French citizen in 1971.
- He taught the piano at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1971 to 1988.Among his students were Akiko Ebi, Jean-Yves Thibaudet,Nicholas Angelich, Artur Pizarro and Marie-Josèphe Jude.
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