Trivia

He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1989 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

The fund-raising concert performance that he gave in 1943 of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1st Piano Concerto", with Arturo Toscanini conducting, was eventually released on records and CD, and has long been one of Horowitz's most treasured performances.

He is considered by many to be the greatest pianist of the twentieth century.

He left Russia in 1925 and did not return until his trip to Moscow in 1986. He became an American citizen on December 14, 1945.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1680 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

He is the most famous interpreter of Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Third Piano Concerto" (popularly known now as the "Rach Third"). He and Rachmaninov were best friends, and Rachmaninov stopped playing the concerto himself when he heard Horowitz play it. Horowitz recorded it three times.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 431-433. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.