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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following his performance at the Proms last month, Alfred Brendel was called back on stage five times to take his applause. This is as it should be for one of that handful of great pianists whose ...

On what would have been Alfred Brendel’s 95th birthday, some of the world’s greatest musicians performed in a relaxed and joyous celebration of an outstanding musician and benevolent mentor Pianist, ...

Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel at the piano, circa 1970. He died Tuesday at his home in London at age 94. (Erich Auerbach | Getty Images) Alfred Brendel, the thoughtful Austrian pianist who focused ...

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 ...