Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Slowly spiralling chords in the right hand. Deep, sinking bass in the left. The opening to Beethoven’s ...

Beethoven in MoonlightThe composer's "Moonlight" Sonata, the Sonata No. 14, played by Alfred Brendel.

One of the greatest pianists of his generation who bestrode the musical world for six decades In the postscript to his 1998 book of poetry One Finger Too Many, the pianist Alfred Brendel cites among ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Brendel, who died on Tuesday at 94, concentrated on a small number of canonical composers, mainly Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. By Zachary ...

His was perhaps the most famous wrinkled brow in classical music, framing the bespectacled eyes of a pianist who penetrated to the very heart of the Austro-Germanic tradition like few others have ever ...

The pianist Alfred Brendel, one of the most respected artists of the last century, has died at the age of 94. Born in Czechia on 5 January 1931, Brendel was a celebrated interpreter of Beethoven’s ...