Claude Frank

Claude Frank ( born December 24, 1925 in Nuremberg, Germany) is an American pianist of German origin.

He started at the age of three years to play the piano. In 1938 the family from the persecution of the Jews fled to Spain via Paris. There noticed a U.S. consul the game of the young Frank and purchased the family a visa to the U.S., where he took lessons with Artur Schnabel. After studying music and composition in New York, among others, Paul Dessau, his career began in 1959 after his debut with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a pianist he performed mainly as a Beethoven interpreter and companion of chamber music with the Guarneri Quartet about, the Juilliard Quartet and the Emerson Quartet in appearance. His published in 1971 and 1990 reissued interpretation of all piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven is considered one of the most distinguished recordings.

Often he also performs with his daughter, violinist Pamela Frank on.

Frank works as a teacher of piano, including at the Yale School of Music, and holds the world from master classes. He lives in Manhattan.