Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was an Austrian-born Jewish classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. He is one of the 20th century's important pianists, whose vitality, profundity and spirituality in playing of works by Beethoven and Schubert, in particular, have been hailed as exemplars of interpretative penetration.
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Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was an Austrian-born Jewish classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. He is one of the 20th century's important pianists, whose vitality, profundity and spirituality in playing of works by Beethoven and Schubert, in particular, have been hailed as exemplars of interpretative penetration.
Quote: "The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides."
Born in Kunzendorf, a small suburb of Bielitz, Galicia, in the Silesian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Lipnik, Bielsko-Biała, Poland), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a Jewish textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine (née Labin). He had two sisters, Clara and Frieda..
The family moved to Vienna in 1884, when Schnabel was two. He began learning the piano at the age of four,...
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