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Aug 14, 2018 · Alfred Brendel’s essays about Beethoven, Schubert, and many others are deeply relevant to performers and amateur listeners alike.
Long before he cemented his reputation as one of the great pianists of the 20th century, Alfred Brendel was a young artist—disaffected by the pervasive nationalism of the 1930s and ’40s and all of its depraved manifestations—struggling to find an independent voice through painting, literature, and music. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 ...
Aug 1, 2013 · A revered solo performer, Alfred Brendel also appears regularly with the world's great orchestras, and since the 1950s, he has been a prolific recording artist. Here, he brings the clarity...
“WHY SHOULD A musician with an active and absorbing career bother to write about matters of his trade?” writes Alfred Brendel in the preface to his essay collection Brendel on Music. “To explain himself is the least of his worries.”
Jul 11, 2013 · A glance at the scope and wealth of piano literature makes us realize: this instrument works wonders. But the piano must be an instrument, not a fetish. It serves a purpose. Without the music, it’s a piece of furniture with black and white teeth. A violin is, and stays, a violin. The piano is an object of transformation.
Jul 24, 2020 · Tracing a history and pre-history of the metaphor and its usage sheds light on the eclipse of more richly textured models of music-making from previous eras as well as on an esthetic predicament within contemporary “historicist” performance.
Jul 11, 2011 · Alfred Hitchcock understood that naturally occurring sounds are more suited to putting an audience inside the film—that is, to putting them through a “pure film” experience.
