Brendel has always been identified with his exceptionally sensitive and intelligent interpretations of the Austro-German classical tradition: Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. He was ...

Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of... Alfred Brendel, the cerebral pianist with a dry ...

Keen to dispel some long-held misconceptions about the compositions of Franz Schubert, renowned Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel uses words and music to make his case in this third volume of his ...

With little formal training but full of ideas, he focused on the core classical composers, winning over audiences (though not every critic) around the world. By Daniel Lewis Alfred Brendel, a ...

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 ...

Alfred Brendel, the thoughtful Austrian pianist who focused on the classics, has died. A statement from his representative said that Brendel passed peacefully on Tuesday morning at his home in London, ...