Alexander Igorevich Satz (Russian: Александр Игоревич Сац, Aleksandr Igorevič Sats; Moscow, 31 January 1941 – Vienna, 18 January 2007 ) was a Russian pianist and educator. Satz's musical career is quite unusual. He did not take up music in a professional way until the age of 14, when he started taking piano lessons with (pupil and assistant of Heinrich Neuhaus). After only one year of intensive practice, he was accepted at the Gnesin School of Music for highly gifted children. Famous pupils of Satz include Boris Berezovsky, Amandine Savary, Yevgeny Sudbin, and Lilya Zilberstein.