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Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, poet and author.〔Stephen Plaistow, ("Brendel, Alfred" ), ''Grove Music Online'', 2007. Accessed 3 June 2007.〕 He is one of the greatest pianists of all time. ==Biography== Brendel gave his first public recital in Graz at the age of 17.〔 At the age of 21, in 1952, he made his solo first recording, Franz Liszt's ''Weihnachtsbaum'' (that work's world premiere recording). His first concerto recording, Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 had been made a couple of years earlier. He went on to make a string of other records, including three complete sets of the Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas (one on Vox Records and two on Philips Records). He was the first performer to record the complete solo piano works of Beethoven.〔 Brendel recorded extensively for the Vox label, providing them his first of three sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas. His breakthrough came after a recital of Beethoven at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the day after which three major record labels called his agent. Around this time he moved to Hampstead, London, where he still resides.〔 Since the 1970s, Brendel has recorded for Philips Classics Records. In April 2007, Brendel was one of the initial signatories of the "Appeal for the Establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations".〔("Featured Signatories" ), Campaign for a UN Parliament, 2007. Accessed 5 January 2011.〕 In 2009, Brendel was featured in the award-winning German-Austrian documentary ''Pianomania'', about a Steinway & Sons piano tuner, which was directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. The film premiered theatrically in North America, where it was met with positive reviews by The New York Times, as well as in Asia and throughout Europe, and is a part of the Goethe-Institut catalogue. In November 2013 Brendel was the guest for BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs''. His choices were Handel's " (from ''Giulio Cesare''), Bach's Piano Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056 (2nd movement), Mozart's "" (from ''Idomeneo''), Joseph Haydn's String Quartet in D major, (Op. 20/4) (4th movement), Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 (1st movement), Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (3rd movement), Mahler's "" (from ''Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen'') and Schoenberg's String Trio, Op.45. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Brendel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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