Alfred Brendel

Noted pianist Alfred brendel brings the clarity and originality of expression that characterize his performance to the printed page. Some of the essays arose from questions for which the available literature did not provide satisfying answers, such as those pertaining to Schubert's piano sonatas, humor in music, the interaction of character and structure, or Beethoven's late style, Others present an overview of Brendel's own endeavors, or special topics such as coping with pianos. Most of the essays were previously published in Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts (1960) and music Sounded Out (1990).

Collected Essays

Alfred Brendel on Music

Jeremy Siepmann

Nachdenken über Musik.

Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts

Music Sounded Out

Musical Thoughts & After-thoughts

Richard Stokes

One of the world's finest pianists shares a collection of his poetry in which his "word machines" paint trenchant and vivid pictures of the world around him and of music. 12,500 first printing. Tour.

One Finger Too Many

Martin Meyer

"In a series of dialogues with Martin Meyer, Brendel speaks about his life, the development of his career, his music-making, his travels, his poems and essays; about his childhood in Zagreb, adolescence in Graz, and experiences as a young man in Vienna ("I was in Vienna, but I was never a 'genuine' Viennese"); about literature, painting, architecture, and kitsch.".

Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer

Me of All People

Illuminating and challenging, this collection of essays should appeal to both the specialist and the music lover. Brendel provides not only stimulating reading but an insight into the exceptional mind of a great pianist. The essays cover the mid 1950s to the mid 1990s.

The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? What is she looking at? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? The mannequin now graces a room in the attic of Brendel's house in Hampstead. Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.

My Musical Life and Other Matters

The Lady from Arezzo

ein Lesebuch für Klavierliebende

A bis Z eines Pianisten

Fragen und Anworten

Nach dem Schlussakkord

Ein ideales ABC des Klavierspiels: kenntnisreich, witzig, aufklärend und persönlich. Alfred Brendel ist der ideale Vermittler für alle Fragen, die das Klavier und die Klavierliebhaber stellen. Von A wie Anschlag, Akkord und Arpeggio bis Z wie Zusammenhang erklärt der weltberühmte Pianist die Geheimnisse, die sich ihm selbst in seiner jahrzehntelangen Praxis gestellt haben. Brendels Vademecum ist ein wunderbares Buch für alle Freunde des Pianoforte, für Musiker wie Musikliebhaber. Es kann ein Konzert nicht ersetzen, aber entscheidend vertiefen - denn so humorvoll und klug ist selten über das große schwarze Instrument geschrieben worden, das bis heute unsere Ohren herausfordert.

Ein Lesebuch für Klavierliebhaber

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however, Brendel is also one of the world's most remarkable writers on music - possessed of the rare ability to bring the clarity and originality of expression that characterised his performances to the printed page. The definitive collection of his award-winning writings and essays, Music, Sense and Nonsense combines all of his work originally published in his two classic books, Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out, along with significant new material on a lifetime of recording, performance habits and reflections on life and art. As well as providing stimulating reading, this new edition provides a unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether discussing Bach or Beethoven, Schubert or Schoenberg, Brendel's reflections are illuminating and challenging, a treasure for the specialist and the music lover alike.

Alfred Brendel

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