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We were not able to submit your information. Please try again soon. Would you prefer to visit our European site at steinway. Visit eu. Would you prefer to visit our British site at steinway. Would you prefer to visit our Japanese site at steinway. Mozart comes to mind. His comic operas teem with a cleverness matched only by their humanity.
So Mozart was funny, sure, but what about Beethoven and Haydn? Yes, them too. The character that emerges is one of compulsive, but scatterbrained, determination. The piece seems unable to go anywhere except where it should not.
His "retirement" however saw him traveling extensively to give lectures on music, read from the 11 eleven books he has penned, recite his own poems, and hold master classes for young pianists or string quartets. And throughout, the now nonagenarian retained his wry sense of humor. Brendel was born on January 5, in northern Moravia in the present-day Czech Republic.
He went to school in Zagreb, studied at the Conservatory in Graz, then moved to Vienna in and on to London in , which has since been home.
I prefer to be a paying guest. That's a lesson learned in the war. He gave his first concert at age 17 and won the Busoni Competition in Bozen a year later. Besides his astonishing productiveness onstage, Brendel has written numerous poems and essays and published books, including Music, Sense and Nonsense in September During his long luminous career, critics often praised the lightness and aplomb of his playing style.
With minimal body language and a dose of modesty, the "philosopher at the piano" — tall, gaunt and with thick horn-rimmed glasses — placed himself in the service of the composer. Yet, as London's The Guardian observed, he was "not a passive recipient of the composer's commands. The notes he played and that are preserved on record and CD have left their mark on generations of musicians and music lovers.
That description might also apply to his own expansive body of work included on CD releases. During the s, he became the first pianist ever to record the complete works of Ludwig von Beethoven. One critic remarked that the set still contains "some of the finest Beethoven ever recorded. Commenting on how he celebrated his beloved composer's th centenary last year that the pandemic reduced to a muted affair , he told the NDR that he discovered several rarely performed works such as the oratorio "Christ on the Mount of Olives.
Brendel was also described by German music critic Joachim Kaiser as "the Schubert performer since In later years, Brendel focused on fewer composers, explaining to DW in "If you play the right pieces, the ones worth spending a life with, they become sources of strength that always radiate new energy and regenerate the performer's powers. And Brendel also finds strength and creativity in things that far removed from music. Now I find visual perception increasingly important.
I go to museums, exhibitions, to the movies and the theater. Robert Schumann was born in the small Saxon city of Zwickau on June 8, August was an adherent of the "Sturm und Drang" Storm and Stress movement upholding the ideals of genius, innocence and the sanctity of love and nature. The young Robert Schumann was of a cheerful disposition. You can listen to tracks from each of the 10 essential albums as you read with our Apple Music playlist:. It is as if he has forgotten all the many performances he must have heard and restudied the score again from the beginning, It is a performance full of strength and admirably supported by the Vienna Pro Musica conducted by Zubin Mehta.
The good, clean recording suits the style of the playing splendidly. Had Mme Schwarzkopf made nothing else it would in itself be enough to establish her as a great artist. Listen to the recitative of the first concert aria K , what expressiveness! And then when the Rondo begins, with a beautiful piano obbligato by Alfred Brendel, how meaningful and moving becomes the graceful, limpid tune.
His Schubert, for instance. The weighting of individual chords, the underlying pulse, the tempo — all grow from a decades-long familiarity.
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