SHORT TAKES : Mourners Honor Horowitz

Mourners were invited to the blue and white funeral chapel here today to pay last respects to pianist Vladimir Horowitz.

Hundreds of mourners--ranging from Pavarotti to obscure young singers--passed by the rose-strewn open casket of the man considered the century’s greatest pianist.

Among them was his long-time producer, Thomas Frost, who said an as-yet untitled record the legendary pianist was working on at the time of his death Sunday would be completed.

Horowitz, who died at his New York home on Sunday of a heart attack at age 85, will be buried in the Toscanini family mausoleum in Milan, alongside his late father-in-law, conductor Arturo Toscanini, and his late daughter Sonia, the pianists’ manager Peter Gelb said.