Artur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was a classical pianist, who also composed and taught. 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, whose vitality, profundity and spiritual penetration in his playing of works by Beethoven and Schubert, in particular, have seldom if ever been surpassed.

Book

Schnabel's book My Life and Music (reprinted 1988; Mineola, NY: Dover Publications; ISBN 0486255719), is a mixture of autobiography and commentary on a variety of musical subjects.

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