To tackle Beethoven's encyclopedic "Diabelli Variations," as pianist Alfred Brendel did with admirable success in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, means going toe to toe with the great man ...

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 ...

Saying farewell is practically impossible for some musicians, including the greatest, who often perform far longer than their gifts allow. Alfred Brendel, one of the most probing and admired pianists ...

In a rare interview Tom Service talks to pianist Alfred Brendel, renowned interpreter of Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven, about his life, career and new book on music. Show more Starting a new ...

A Mozart celebration would hardly be a Mozart celebration without Alfred Brendel. The great Austrian pianist turned 75 in January, just a few weeks before Mozart would have turned 250. If one regarded ...

It may have been a grand piano on stage at Symphony Center that was coaxed, coddled and caressed by that grand poet Alfred Brendel, but his recital of works by three masters was in fact a celebration ...

LONDON (AP) — Alfred Brendel, a pianist and poet renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven over a six-decade career, died Tuesday at his home in London. He was 94. Brendel's death was announced by ...

Alfred Brendel, a classical pianist and writer renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven and Schubert, died Tuesday at his home in London. He was 94. Born on 5 January 1931 in Moravia, now the ...

From memories of recording in ice-cold mansions to a moving essay on his fading hearing, this is an eloquent volume from a formidable intellect In December 2008, Alfred Brendel played his last public ...