Pianoist and writer Alfred Brandel died quietly at his home at his home on June 17 at his home at his home. He gained fame among others for his sensitive interpretations of work by Hayden, Mozart, Beethowen, Sent, Brahms and Liszt.
Brendel was born on 5 January 1931 in the present Czech Republic in North Morvia. The boy of German, Austrian, Italian and Slavic heritage now grew on the Adriatic coast in Croatia. He went to school in Zagreb, studied at Conservatori at Graz, Austria, then moved to Vienna in 1950 and London in 1970, united her death by her home.
Brendel once said, “I am not a person who is looking or needs for roots.” “I want to be as metropolitan as much as possible. I like to be a payment guest. It is a lesson learned in war.”
A few years after the end of World War II ended, he gave his first concert at the age of 17 and won the Ferucosio Busony International Piano Competition in Italy a year later.
Decades of global concerts soon received several differences then: Three honorary doctors from universities in London, Oxford and Yale, and several prices, including the Karzan Awards for Lifetime Achowment at the MidTime Classical Awards in October 2016, by the Karzan Awards for Lifetime Achieves and Arnsts by Herbert.
He was designed for “Britain for music for external services” in the honorary night commander of the British Empire’s order in 1989, awarded the Legian D’Honorur in 2004, and resume the highest rank in 2007 under the merit of the German Field Republic’s merit.
In addition to his vigorous output forum, Brendel wrote several poems and essays and published books in September 2015, including “Music, Sense and Nonsense”. He is also widely as a successful literary person, as well as a classical musician.
“I always needed not only to read, but to write,” Hey said once. “In my short years, I portrayed for some time. Now I have increased the view perception.
Philosopher
During Brendel’s long and bright career, critics often praised the lightness and decomposition of his sports style. With minimal body language and a modest, “philosopher in piano” -were placed in the service of composer with tall, gant and thick horn -rim glasses.
Still as Mentor The newspaper once saw, the pianoist “was not a passive recipient of the musician’s commandments.”
“I often feel like a character actor,” Brendel explained in an interview with DW in 2002. “I like – as far as occupation – to slip into different roles.” Thus Brandel executed more than only one blind belief in the score, once a possible explanation for it, also: “I spent the years spent under the Nazi rule made me immune for blind faith.”
The notes he played and those who are preserved on records and CDs have left their mark on the generations of musicians and music lovers. “Music that is not played, but feels happy to himself,” Brandel is the word that two musicians have been described, they reversed a lot: his teacher Edwin Fisher and Conductor Wilhelm fartinggler,
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Some choice musicians
He remains an artist with a list of war and a wide performance, even if he is his favorite.
During the 1960s, he became the first pianist to record the complete tasks of Ludwig von Beethoven. Recording is widely considered one of the best in existence. Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, Liszt, Busoni and Brahmswere among their other favorite musicians.
In later years, Brendel focused on fewer musicians, explaining to DW in 2002: “If you play the right piece, they are worth spending life, they become a source of strength that always radiate new energy and reproduce the powers of the artist.”
One final act
Brandel ended his 60 -year concert career almost two decades ago. Her farewell performance at Vienna Philharmonic on December 18, 2008 voted one of the 100 greatest cultural moments of the decade. Daily telegraph,
Shortly thereafter, he suffered acute hearing loss, and only had the hearing ton. His “retirement”, however, witnessed a large scale traveling to deliver a lecture on music, read with eleven books, which he has written, recites his poems, and organizing master classes for young pianists or string quarters.
And through, he maintained a sense of humor.
“If someone has to listen to Verdi continuously in heaven, I ask for a holiday for a holiday and sometimes a trip to hell,” he once said about life after death.
