- 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.
- He was an insomniac.
- He made his US debut in 1950, performing Tchaikovsky's concerto in B-flat minor with the New York Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos.
- He entered the Naples Conservatory while still a child, and made his recital debut at 13. He taught at the conservatory after WWII.
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