Ingrid Haebler

Ingrid Haebler ( born June 20, 1929 in Vienna) is an Austrian pianist.

Life

Ingrid Haebler, born in Vienna, is the daughter of Baron von Armin Haebler, industrialist ud from Charlotte Schüch. Growing up in Poland, received six years of her mother's first piano lessons. It was soon followed by even first attempts at composition. At the beginning of the second world war, they then moved on with her family to Salzburg, where she made her concert debut at the age of eleven with a piece by Mozart and one of his own compositions. Then she studied with Paul Weingarten in Vienna and eventually at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1950 she went to Geneva to further studies with Nikita Magaloff and also to Paris at Marguerite Long.

Ingrid Haebler twice won the second prize at the International Piano Competition in Geneva and in 1954 the first prize at the competition of the ARD. Then her world career that was connected primarily with her Mozart playing began. In 1969 Ingrid Haebler was a professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Focus of her artistic activity were at the piano and chamber music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose violin sonatas they masterfully interpreted with Henryk Szeryng. Praise the naturalness and simple diction of their game as well as the sobriety in the presentation was paired with warmth and feeling in her interpretations of Mozart.

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