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	Alfred Brendel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an (A mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century) Austrian (A person who plays the piano) pianist.
		Brendel is today seen as one of the most thoughtful interpreters of classical Germanic works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and (Prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		Brendel's playing is sometimes described as being (Click link for more info and facts about analytic) analytic, and he has said that he believes the primary job of the pianist is to respect the composer's wishes without showing off himself, or adding his own spin on the music.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alfred_brendel.htm (717 words)

	Alfred Brendel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia.
		Brendel was born in Vízmberk (now Loučná nad Desnou), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) into a non-musical family.
		In recent years, Brendel has worked with young pianists such as Paul Lewis and Till Felner, he has also recorded with his son Adrian Brendel, a cellist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Brendel (606 words)

	Buy Bagatelles: Alfred Brendel Plays Beethoven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The amount of salient, compositional thought that Brendel reveals is breathtaking and affords a window onto the landscape of Beethoven's own interests and attitudes towards both composing and the piano, both of which have been uniquely seminal for piano music in the centuries that followed, down to the present.
		Thanks to Brendel's seemingly "selfless" commitment to Beethoven's art, the recording enables an auditor to share in that remarkable overview as a full, human equal, whether he is an artistic equal or not.
		Brendel is several decades older and wiser now, and may well find these products of his relative youth as callow as I do.
	classical.video-dvd.com.ru /C_36662/G_B000001K4G/Alfred-Brendel-Plays-Beethoven.html (1224 words)

	Decca Music Group - Alfred Brendel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alfred Brendel, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of the works of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Liszt and his cycles of works by Beethoven and Schubert.
		Alfred Brendel was also the first to record the complete solo works of Beethoven, and one of the few to have recorded all of the Mozart piano concertos.
		Alfred Brendel is also one of 72 pianists who features strongly in Philips’ "Great Pianists of the 20th Century" series.
	www.deccaclassics.com /artists/brendel/biog.asp (1039 words)

	Profile: Alfred Brendel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alfred Brendel studied piano, composition and conducting in Zagreb and Graz, and completed his piano studies with Edwin Fischer, Paul Baumgartner, and Edward Steuermann.
		Brendel's affinity with deeply emotional music does not preclude a sense of humour.
		During 2003 and 2004 Alfred Brendel performed and recorded all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas with his son Adrian Brendel, and also recorded 2 CDs with Matthias Goerne.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /meettheorchestra/players/alfredbrendel (666 words)

	Alfred Brendel Profile
		Alfred Brendel is recognized by audiences the world over for his legendary ability to communicate the emotional and intellectual depths of whatever music he performs.
		Alfred Brendel is one of the most prolific recording artists of all time, and for the past thirty years has recorded exclusively for Philips Classics.
		Alfred Brendel is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Oxford, London, Sussex and Yale universities.
	www.colbertartists.com /ArtistBio.asp?ID=1 (1012 words)

	Adrian Brendel and Alfred Brendel - Only NYC Recital (4.27.04)
		Brendel is a regular participant at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Oxford festivals, as well as festivals in Germany and Austria.
		Alfred Brendel is the recipient of many honors and awards, including honorary doctorates from Oxford, London, Sussex and Yale universities, and is only the third pianist in history to be named an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic, a distinction he shares with Emil von Sauer and Wilhelm Backhaus.
		Brendel was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989 for his "outstanding services to music in Britain," where he has made his home since 1972.
	www.92y.org /content/brendel_and_brendel_2004.asp (1033 words)

	The Daily Page: Alfred Brendel * CANCELLED * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the skill of a master actor Brendel captures the essential character of each piece he plays, and the strugglenecessary to all true artbetween chaos and design, passion and thought, is always evident in his playing.
		Brendel "can heighten that sense of anticipation by subtle intensifications of emotionthrough nuances of tone, color, phrasing, tempo and weight of touchthen catapult the listener in a totally opposite direction in a cat-and-mouse fashion.
		Alfred Brendel has performed for more than half a century at some of the world's most prestigious concert venues and has created a rich legacy of recordings through the course of his career.
	www.thedailypage.com /going-out/theguide/event.php?id=107061 (296 words)

	Alfred Brendel - A Musical Paradox
		Brendel has a remarkably fine-tuned âear,â not only when performing but with regard to life in general, and he leads parallel lives that are mutually enriching.
		Brendel is also an essayist (Thoughts and Afterthoughts has been providing absorbing reading for musicians and music-lovers for over thirty years); a new-fledged poet (his collection, One Finger Too Many reveals his wild sense of humour); a collector; and a great reader, especially of works that deal with the mystery of life and eternity.
		Brendel also collects masks and the cartoons of Edward Gorey and Gary Larson (the hilarious American author of The Far Side), as well as kitsch objects, because, he says, âKitsch sharpens the perception of what is genuine and what is not.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm6-6/brendel-en.html (1302 words)

	Alfred Brendel
		He is widely seen as one of the great classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century.
		Brendel was born in Wiesenburg (now Loučná nad Desnou), Czechoslovakia (now Czechia) into a non-musical family.
		Brendel is today seen as one of the most thoughtful interpraters of classical Germanic works by composers such as Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
	usapedia.com /a/alfred-brendel.html (531 words)

	Guardian \| Alfred Brendel
		This time last year pianist Alfred Brendel was performing in a concert series celebrating his 70th birthday, and informing us that he had no intention of "going into hiding".
		Brendel has described this sonata as being perhaps the most "neurotic" in Schubert's output, and here it emerged as one of extraordinary power.
		Brendel may have made it sound easy; but this time he certainly wasn't on autopilot.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4448468-110430,00.html (402 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alfred Brendel
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		Alfred Denis Cortot (September 26, 1877 â€“ June 15, 1962) was a French pianist and conductor.
		Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a German pianist and composer.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alfred-Brendel (1635 words)

	Brendel, Alfred Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Essays on Young Brendel: The Vox Years - "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by Harris Goldsmith and "Brendelian Thoughts and Afterthoughts" by Jed Distler.
		Alfred Brendel page - Biography, discography, several essays, and interviews (no longer updated).
		Brendel, Alfred "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Instruments_Keyboard_Piano_Pianists_B_Brendel,_Alfred.html (1805 words)

	Alfred Brendel Biography
		At the time of this first recital (a rather serious affair entitled "The Fugue in Piano Literature" with pieces by Bach, Brahms, Liszt, and a double fugue of his own devising), a gallery in Graz was showing a one-man exhibition of his watercolours.
		Brendel's first recordings served to confirm his increasing stature as a keyboard artist in the concert hall and made his performances available to listeners who otherwise would not have been able to hear him at all.
		Alfred Brendel resides with his wife, Irene, in London, where they have been based since 1971.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/2192/biograph.html (869 words)

	Brendel, Alfred
		Alfred Brendel is a pianist, renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Liszt, made his debut as a poet at the age of sixty-seven with the collection Fingerzeig (1996).
		Alfred Brendel grew up in Yugoslavia and Austria, and has been living in London since 1972.
		About the relationship between writing and music, Brendel has this to say: ‘Most poems start in the way pieces of music start when you compose: one or two lines appear, or in music a motif, or a succession of motifs, which then are explored, varied, developed.
	www.poetryinternational.org /cwolk/view/15555 (387 words)

	Classic Archive - Alfred Brendel (2003)
		Brendel's performance of the sonata seems to me to be mannered and idiosyncratic, and he does not pull the large structure of this difficult work into a recognisable shape.
		Brendel has recorded the complete sonatas of Beethoven three times, the last two times after this performance, so perhaps his interpretation of the work has changed for the better since this recording was made, and he was not at the peak of his form during these sessions.
		Apparently the discs for all regions are made in the same Dutch factory using the same equipment, and the only difference between the Region 4 and Region 1 versions of this disc is the television format.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4614 (842 words)

	Alfred Brendel
		His spiritual heir, both in terms of that vaunted philosophy and in repertoire, is Alfred Brendel.
		Brendel is a true classicist, one of the masters of our time, and the program for his recital at Verizon Hall comes from the heart of that world, with music of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven.
		For all of the purity of his approach, the brilliance of Brendel lies in his ability to present this very familiar material with a spontaneity and attention to inner detail that goes to both the hearts and heads of modern audiences.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2004-03-25/musicpicks.shtml (192 words)

	Alfred Brendel - In Portrait - Opus Arte Media Productions, dvd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alfred Brendel in Portrait is a double-disc set that all admirers of this most intellectual of pianists will want to own.
		Comment: If you have heard Alfred Brendel's performances either live, or on CD, this DVD is a 'must' in order to understand this great pianist more.
		Finally, also the part in which Brendel makes a short story of his life and his pianistic formation is equally interesting as it provides a lot of historic and artistic reference to the European life of the last 50 years.
	sale-for-you.co.uk /dvd/item/B00005K3PI (534 words)

	A tribute to Alfred Brendel on his 70th birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is a philosopher among pianists, one who has explored the secrets behind the notes and the mysteries of the musical world: Alfred Brendel, who will be turning 70 on January 5, 2001.
		Of Austrian, German, Italian and Czech extraction, Alfred Brendel was born in Wiesenberg, Moravia, on January 5, 1931.
		Brendel's imposing repertoire ranges from Bach to Schoenberg, although he is noted above all for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Mozart and Liszt.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/010101.htm (677 words)

	Brendel Discography at CD Universe
		A portrait of Alfred Brendel's life and work as one of the greatest classical pianists.
		Brendel / Josefowicz / Marriner / McNair, Sylvia
		Brendel discography of albums, songs, lyrics, biography, reviews, cover art pictures, and sound samples on this page is for personal non-commercial use only.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Brendel/a/Brendel.htm (564 words)

	NPR : Alfred Brendel: A Pianist 'Thinker'
		NPR.org, September 13, 2005 · Performance Today's Fred Child sat down in May of 2004 with Alfred Brendel on the eve of the pianist's U.S. tour to discuss composers, techniques and performing.
		Alfred Brendel: Actually Schubert's posthumous pieces that I am playing in my program in the United States.
		This metaphor becomes a reality on your tour: American audiences are going to be hearing another Brendel for the first time: Adrian Brendel, a cellist, and your son.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4845085&ft=1&f=1039 (2525 words)

	Amazon.com: The Art Of Alfred Brendel [BOX SET]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brendel's Schubert is very notable for its total avoidance of the sweet and precious image of the composer that has settled somehow.
		Brendel's D minor Concerto is the most impressive reading I've heard anywhere, and his B flat is among the greatest versions as well.
		Brendel is held in universal esteem, regarded by many as the greatest living pianist.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000041E6?v=glance (3359 words)

	Alfred Brendel 3 - camerasandreviews.com Tool Info, Pricing, and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Renaissance man Alfred Brendel remains one of the indisputable keyboard giants of the last several decades, and many a music lover has grown up with his Beethoven or Schubert as a point of departure.
		Though routinely depicted as an archetype of the modern pianist as predominantly analytical and heavily "cerebral" (albeit in a sense somewhat different from that of Maurizio Pollini), Brendel shouldn't be boxed into such easy categories--and much of the artistry represented on his third volume in the Philips series is a case in point.
		For those who think Brendel is purely a Mozartian with bits of Beethoven here and there, Brendel does show he has the capacity, both musically and technically, to pull off some excellent performances of some of the most difficult Romantic repertoire.
	www.camerasandreviews.com /shop/asinsearch_B00001IVP0.html (709 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Alfred Brendel plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 [Import] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These early 1960's recordings on Turnabout/Vox are Brendel's first set of Beethoven sonatas, which were followed by his second set for the Philips record label in the 1970's.
		Brendel achieves the apotheosis of transitional period classical/Romantic works in the performance of the late Beethoven sonatas.
		Brendel strives for it and brings the listener into that realm.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001K2I (729 words)

	Ottawa Start \| Alfred Brendel performs March 21 at the NAC
		In addition to being a supreme master of the piano and one of the most prolific recording artists of all time, Brendel is well-versed in the fields of literature, language, architecture and films, and his books include several volumes of poetry.
		In the piano recital on March 21, Alfred Brendel will perform Mozart's 9 Variations on a Minuet by J. Duport, Schumann's Kreisleriana, his longest and most complex work; three of Schubert's charming piano miniatures from Moments musicaux, and Haydn's Piano Sonata in C major.
		Tickets for this Bombardier Great Performers recital featuring Alfred Brendel on March 21 are on sale now at $25, $40, $42, $50 and $52, with box seats at $63 (GST and Facility Fee included) at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111.
	www.ottawastart.com /story/1507.php (790 words)

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