Alfred Brendel, the internationally renowned pianist whose name is associated with profound interpretations of the works of Beethoven, Schubert and other classical masters, died in London on June 17 ...

One of the greatest pianists of his generation who bestrode the musical world for six decades In the postscript to his 1998 book of poetry One Finger Too Many, the pianist Alfred Brendel cites among ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Brendel, who died on Tuesday at 94, concentrated on a small number of canonical composers, mainly Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. By Zachary ...

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I first heard Alfred Brendel perform in the late 1960s, in a tiny room in the Austrian Institute in London. I was 19. He played Schubert and Chopin, and was sensational. I marched up to him afterwards ...

Alfred Brendel is more than a pianist. Perhaps calling him a historical monument would go further in capturing his significance—however ordinary he may appear on stage and very much alive he still is.

LONDON — Alfred Brendel, a pianist and poet renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven over a six-decade career, died Tuesday at his home in London. He was 94. Brendel’s death was announced by the ...

His was perhaps the most famous wrinkled brow in classical music, framing the bespectacled eyes of a pianist who penetrated to the very heart of the Austro-Germanic tradition like few others have ever ...

Alfred Brendel is considered one of the greatest living classical pianists. In 2008, after performing for sixty years, he retired from the concert stage. (Alex Ross wrote about Brendel’s farewell ...

It may have been a grand piano on stage at Symphony Center that was coaxed, coddled and caressed by that grand poet Alfred Brendel, but his recital of works by three masters was in fact a celebration ...

Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel turns 75 years old today. He tells us why he likes to revisit some of the classics, and we hear him play the finale from Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in A minor, in ...

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, is also a great writer. You can often detect a good-natured smirk behind his words, but right there with it is a genuinely humane ...