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Artur Schnabel
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1882
- Died
- 1951
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Aus dir wird nie ein Pianist
- Reflections on Music. (Translated by César Saerchinger)
- Musik und der Weg des grössten Widerstands
- Ein halbes Jahrhundert Musik
- Walking freely on firm ground
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Austria
- Active from
- 1882
- Active to
- 1951
Discography
- Piano Piece in Seven Movements / Piano Sonata1995
- Sonata for Violin and Piano / Sonata for Violin Solo1995
- Symphonies 1 & 31996
- The Piano Masters1999
- Piano Works Vol. 72004
- Quadromania: Artur Schnabel, Maestro espressivo2004
- String Quartet / Piano Trio / Seven Piano Pieces2004
- The Complete Schubert Recordings2005
- String Quartet no. 1 / Notturno2011
- Klavierquintet / Klaviersonate / Lieder2013
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14,322
- Total plays
- 164,227
Tags
Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was a composer and also a pianist and teacher. His compositions were, in Ernst Krenek's words, "of remarkable and unusual significance." Schnabel was renowned for his seriousness as a musician, avoiding anything resembling pure technical bravura. He was said to have tended to disregard his own technical limitations in pursuit of his musical ideals. However, Schnabel is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century <a
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Quotes
- “Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.”
- “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.”
- “I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.”
- “Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.”
- “I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1882-04-17 ) 17 April 1882, Kunzendorf , Austria-Hungary (now Lipnik, Poland)
- Died
- 15 August 1951 (1951-08-15) (aged 69), Axenstein , Switzerland
- Resting place
- Schwyz , Switzerland
- Occupations
- Pianist and composer
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Artur Schnabel, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Artur Schnabel (17 April 1882 – 15 August 1951) was an Austrian-born classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert.
Music critic Harold C. Schonberg described Schnabel as "the man who invented Beethoven". Between 1932 and 1935, he made history by producing the first recording of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. In 2018, the Library of Congress selected this recording to be placed in the National Recording Registry for its historical significance.
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