Leo Gregorovich Sirota (Mayu 4, 1885 - Fabrairu 25, 1965) mawakin piano ne Bayahude wanda aka haifa a Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Daular Russia, yankin Ukraine a yanzu. Leo Sirota ya fara karatun piano tun yana ɗan shekara biyar. Lokacin da yake da shekaru tara ya riga ya ba da kide-kide kuma ya zo wurin Paderewski, wanda ya gayyaci yaron ya yi nazari tare da shi. Iyayen Sirota, duk da haka, sun ji cewa ya yi ƙanƙara, don haka ya halarci wuraren ajiyar kayayyaki a Kiev kuma, daga baya, Saint Petersburg . Duk da haka, a cikin 1904 ya tafi Vienna don yin karatu tare da Ferruccio Busoni . Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai wasan piano na gwaji tare da madugu Jascha Horenstein, wanda 'yar'uwarsa, Augustine Horenstein, ya yi aure. Wasan kwaikwayo na farko na Sirota na Vienna dole ne ya zama abin tunawa: ya ƙunshi Mozart sonata don piano biyu tare da Busoni yana kunna ɗayan piano, sannan Busoni Piano Concerto, tare da Busoni yana gudanarwa, kuma ya ƙare da nau'in piano guda biyu na Liszt Don Juan Fantasy. .