Artur Schnabel (1882–1951)
Autore di Piano sonatas no. 1–32 (sound recording)
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Opere di Artur Schnabel
32 Sonate 3 (Schnabel) 1 copia
32 Sonate 1 (Schnabel) 1 copia
Schnabel: Klavierquintett [Pellegrini-Quartett, Irmela Roelcke, Sibylle Kamphues] [CPO: 777471-2] (2013) 1 copia
Hall of Fame 1 copia
Mozart & Schnabel, Vol. 4 - Piano Quartet in G minor K 478, Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor K 310 (1988) 1 copia
Impromptus 1 copia
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1882-04-17
- Data di morte
- 1951-08-15
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Friedhof Schwyz, Switzerland
- Sesso
- male
- NazionalitÃ
- Austria-Hungary
- Luogo di nascita
- Lipnik, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Poland)
- Luogo di morte
- Axenstein, Switzerland
- Luogo di residenza
- Kunzendorf, Bielitz, Silesia
Vienna, Austria
Berlin, Germany
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Axenstein, Schwyz, Switzerland - Istruzione
- Vienna Conservatory
- Attività lavorative
- Pianist
Composer
Music teacher
musician
author - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order Of Prince Danilo I
- Breve biografia
- Artur Schnabel was born Aaron Schnabel to a Jewish family in Lipnik, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Poland). His parents were Ernestine Taube and Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant. In 1884, the family moved to Vienna for more educational opportunities for the children. Schnabel had a natural gift for music and began learning to play the piano at age four. By the age of six, he was taking lessons at the Vienna Conservatory (today the University of Music and Performing Arts). Schnabel made his official concert debut at age 15 in 1897 in Vienna. The following year, he moved to Berlin, his home for the next 33 years. He initially became famous thanks to concerts he gave under the conductor Arthur Nikisch as well as playing in chamber music and accompanying his future wife, the contralto Therese Behr, in Lieder. After World War I, Schnabel toured widely, visiting the USA, Russia, and England. He worked with many of the greatest string players of his day in chamber music and formed several ensembles with Flesch, Becker, Casals, Feuermann, Fournier, Hindemith, Huberman, Piatigorsky, Primrose, and Szigeti. He was a friend of and played with the most distinguished conductors of the day, including Furtwängler, Walter, Klemperer, Szell, and Boult. His performances and recordings made him a legend in his own time. Schnabel also devoted much of his time to teaching. From 1925 to 1931, he was a professor at the Berlin State Academy, and gave master classes in Italy and in the USA. After the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, Schnabel and his family went into exile in England and Italy before moving to the USA in 1939. There he took a teaching post at the University of Michigan. At the end of World War II, he went to live in Axenstein, Switzerland. His writings included Reflections on Music (1934), Music and the Line of Most Resistance (1942, expanded 2007), and My Life and Music (1961), later published as Music, Wit, and Wisdom, a volume of 12 autobiographical speeches addressed to music students at the University of Chicago.
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My Life and Music di Artur Schnabel
I thought this to be an excellent book on the life of one of the twentieth century's finest musicians and his views on music. It was an autobiography in the unusual format of twelve informal talks given at the University of Chicago in 1945, with question-and-answer sessions after each talk, right after the end of World War II, compiled by his son Karl Ulrich Schnabel, in 1961. Artur Schnabel's Reflections on Music, originally published in 1934, are appended to this 1988 Dover Publications paperback. Enlightening and interesting, especially the idea that all mankind is musical.… (altro)
Schnabel's memoir is in two parts. The first part is a set of lectures that he gave at the University of Chicago and the second part is in interview format. I found his narrative interesting and well told, although Stefan Zweig has a better portrait of growing up in Vienna in his memoir, The World of Yesterday. Schnabel's life in music is the attractive aspect of this book and it is worth reading for the insights that he shares. This book will enhance my enjoyment of recordings of Schnabel's interpretations of Beethoven and other composers.… (altro)
This book is compiled from 12 lectures Schnabel gave at the University of Chicago in 1945. The first half is a more-or-less chronological, but brief, story of his life. The second part of the book consists of questions and answers after each lecture. Schnabel emerges as a very intelligent person, though his formal education was quite meager. His opinions on piano playing are always interesting and always very definite. You won't agree with them all, but he certainly earned the right to have them!
He professes to have very little knowledge of anything outside of music, but it is certainly interesting to listen to the Austrian-born Schnabel talk about his 30 years in Germany, which he left after Hitler came to power, and his own experiences during the First World War, when he continued to give concerts in nations that were allied or remained friendly to Germany. His reminiscences of his first tours of the United States are also interesting. As for music in general, he bemoans the fact that people don't play music in their homes anymore, since he feels that the home is the ideal, intimate setting for chamber music.
There are a few anecdotes about other famous musicians or conductors, and Schnabel loves telling stories in general, so this is a very quick, entertaining read that only rarely gets into the technicalities of piano playing. He professes to be mystified, for instance, about what anyone is talking about when they speak of the "German" method or "Russian" method of piano playing.
I read this book after reading Leon Fleischer's autobiography, where he mentions Schnabel, who was his teacher. Fleischer receives a brief, unnamed mention in this book.… (altro)
He professes to have very little knowledge of anything outside of music, but it is certainly interesting to listen to the Austrian-born Schnabel talk about his 30 years in Germany, which he left after Hitler came to power, and his own experiences during the First World War, when he continued to give concerts in nations that were allied or remained friendly to Germany. His reminiscences of his first tours of the United States are also interesting. As for music in general, he bemoans the fact that people don't play music in their homes anymore, since he feels that the home is the ideal, intimate setting for chamber music.
There are a few anecdotes about other famous musicians or conductors, and Schnabel loves telling stories in general, so this is a very quick, entertaining read that only rarely gets into the technicalities of piano playing. He professes to be mystified, for instance, about what anyone is talking about when they speak of the "German" method or "Russian" method of piano playing.
I read this book after reading Leon Fleischer's autobiography, where he mentions Schnabel, who was his teacher. Fleischer receives a brief, unnamed mention in this book.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 33
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 192
- PopolaritÃ
- #113,797
- Voto
- 4.5
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 15
- Lingue
- 2