US EditionAlfred Brendel, Pianist, 1931-2025
LONDON, JUN 17 – Alfred Brendel, celebrated for his three complete Beethoven sonata recordings, influenced generations with a career spanning 60 years and numerous awards including multiple Gramophone honors.
- Alfred Brendel, an Austrian pianist known for his interpretations of classical works, died peacefully at age 94 at his London home surrounded by family.
- Born on January 5, 1931, in Wiesenberg , Brendel came from a nonmusical family and began his career later than most pianists.
- Brendel gave his first formal recital as a professional pianist at 17 in his hometown of Graz, completed three separate recordings of Beethoven’s entire piano repertoire, and ended his performance career in 2008.
- While critics such as Tim Page found Brendel’s style occasionally dry or overly academic, The Boston Globe recognized him as a leading and influential artist of his generation.
- After retiring, Brendel continued lecturing and teaching, leaving a lasting influence through his recordings, masterclasses, and literary works on music.
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She went to the piano a ‘friend’ and a ‘very dear partner’. She left the parks in 2008, at the peak of her abilities, to dedicate herself to writing and advice from young musicians.
The death of Alfred Brendel deprives us not only of one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century but also of one of the last representatives of “Central Europe” (Mitelleuropa), that vaguely defined term that immediately evokes the cultural golden age of Central Europe that emerged from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Alfred Brendel, one of the country's most important pianists, died at the age of 94. Wilhelm Sinkovicz says goodbye in this podcast episode.
The star pianist Alfred Brendel was an ideal cast for the bourgeois music business, he did not annoy with contemporary and did not impute to his audience any enthusiasm for discovery.
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