On February 6, 1903 Claudio Arrau, one of the world’s great pianists, was born in Chillán, Chile. 

Where other famous pianists play the piano for excitement, power or display, Arrau plays to probe, to divine, to interpret. Says Arrau,
“An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.”
CLAUDIO ARRAU BIOGRAPHY

Birth Centenary of Claudio Arrau
Issued in 2003 by the Chilean post office
Designer: Mauricio Navarro González