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Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94
Widely regarded as the ‘musicians’ musician’ Brendel was the first pianist to record all of Beethoven’s piano works during a much-garlanded career spanning 60 years
He took a prominent role in highlighting Haydn’s importance as a composer, in establishingSchubert’s Sonatas and Schoenberg’s Concerto in the repertoire, and rekindling interest in Liszt’s piano music. He moved to London in 1971, and made his home in Hampstead, his second marriage brought three children (his son, Adrian is an acclaimed cellist, his daughter by his first, Doris, is a pop and rock singer). Photograph: Benjamin Ealovega“I don’t feel guilty about being ‘intellectual’ if that means thinking about the structure and character and humour in a piece of music,” he told the Guardian in 2010 on the occasion of receiving Gramophone magazine’s Lifetime Achievement award.
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