Artur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel was born on April 17, 1882 in Lipnik in the Silesian part of Austria and grew up in Vienna. He studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky from 1891 to 1897. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Berlin and began his career as a concert pianist. From 1900, the publishing houses Dreililien and Simrock published his first compositions. Around 1914, he reoriented himself stylistically under the influence of Arnold Schönberg. After emigrating in 1933, he initially lived in England and Italy before immigrating to the USA in 1939, where he became a citizen in 1944. He returned to the European concert stage in 1946. He died on August 15, 1951 in Axenstein, Switzerland.

In this book, musicians and musicologists from Europe and North America deal not only with the pianist's lifetime achievements, but also for the first time in detail with Schnabel's compositional work, which is still too little recognized. The volume contains contributions by Werner Grünzweig: Artur Schnabel - a retrospective view; Martin Kapeller: Artur Schnabel's path to New Music; Heinz-Klaus Metzger: How far did notation once go?; Walter Zimmermann: On the performance markings in Artur Schnabel's Sonata for Violin solo; Felix Wörner: An almost forgotten opus magnum. Artur Schnabel's Third String Quartet; Volker Scherliess: Artur Schnabel and Eduard Erdmann; Matthias Schmidt: Ernst Krenek's relationship to Artur Schnabel; Matthias Henke: Life and thought patterns in Schnabel and Schönberg; Heinz von Loesch: On Artur Schnabel's Beethoven edition; Martin Elste: Artur Schnabel - Carl Flesch. Together or against each other? On the Stylistics of the Edition of Mozart's Violin Sonatas; David Goldberger: Artur Schnabel's Master Classes at the University of Michigan; Claude Frank: Artur Schnabel's Lighter Side; Robert Schmitt Scheubel: Artur Schnabel in the Critiques of Alfred Einstein. Documents; Dietmar Schenk: Artur Schnabel and the Hochschule für Musik. A Constellation in Berlin in the Twenties; Mary Lou Chayes: Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Master Teacher of Piano; Joan Rowland: Playing Four-Hands with Karl Ulrich Schnabel; Claude Mottier: Karl Ulrich Schnabel's Approach to Expression; Werner Grünzweig: In Memoriam Claude Mottier.

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