Artur Schnabel
Austrian classical pianist and composer
Died when: 69 years 120 days (831 months)Star Sign: Aries
Artur Schnabel (17 April 1882 – 15 August 1951) was an Austrian-American 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 produced 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.
Related People
Pianist and composer
Pianist and composer
Pianist and composer
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License