Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel KBE ( born January 5, 1931 in Wiesbaden Mountain, North Moravia ) is an Austrian pianist. Brendel is considered one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Life
In Brendel's third year of life, the family moved to Yugoslavia, where the parents talked for a house on the Adriatic island of Krk. He attended school in Zagreb, where he received at the age of six years of piano lessons with Sofija Dezelic. After moving to Graz in 1943, he studied at the Conservatory in piano and composition. His piano studies, he decided with Paul Baumgartner and especially with Edwin Fischer. In 1947 he presented externally at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from the state examination in piano. In 1949 he founded his international career as an award winner at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano. In 1950 he moved to Vienna, early 70s to London, Hampstead.
Brendel is married to his second wife. His first marriage, he led from 1960 to 1972 with Iris Heymann- Gonzala, you had a daughter, Doris. In 1975, he married Irene Semler and has with her three children, the son of Adrian and two daughters, Catherine and Sophie.
Music
Brendel is primarily known for his interpretations of the piano works of Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Liszt. He is the first pianist who recorded Beethoven's complete piano works. Also, as an accompanist, he has made a name (including with Dietrich Fischer -Dieskau ). Joachim Kaiser holds Brendel for the major Schubert interpreters of the second half of the twentieth century.
In his last years concert he took with his son, the cellist Adrian Brendel, cello sonatas by Beethoven.
On 18 December 2008, adopted by Brendel concert life with the Jenamy piano concerto by Mozart; it, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Charles Mackerras at the Musikverein.
2009 Brendel had an appearance in the award- winning documentary of the two directors Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis PianoMania. The film was well received nationally and internationally, was celebrated at many festivals and included in the catalog of the Goethe -Institut.