Karl Ulrich Schnabel

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Karl Ulrich Schnabel (September 6, 1909 – August 27, 2001) was an Austrian pianist.

Schnabel's uncle, pianist Artur Schnabel, and operatic contralto and lieder singer Therese Behr, as well as the American actor Stefan Schnabel, was an operaist.

Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Kwong-Kwong Ma, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Murray Perahia, and Peter Serkin are among his students.

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Performance career

Karl Ulrich Schnabel inherited from his parents an expression that united the ferocity of expression with absolute fidelity to the printed text. He is best known for his imaginative interpretation of the Schubert song cycles. He made his Berlin debut in 1926 and then gave recitals throughout Europe, North and South America, Russia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

He accompanied his mother both at home and on recordings. He began teaching her voice and coached her students from an early age.

Schnabel produced several albums, solo and four-hand, for HMV, EMI, Philips, Musical Heritage Society, Sheffield, and TownHall, among others. He was the author of the well-known book Modern Technique of the Pedal (1950). Schubert and Weber's compositions were also available in their own editions.

Schnabel, among other things, dedicated himself to the revival of piano four hands' nearly forgotten music for piano four hands, recording music by Schubert, Mozart, and Schumann. Schnabel's four-hand performance was completely different from solo: "Four-hand playing is a difficult art that demands a lot of time and patience." You are more of a whole than a whole unit. The four-hand repertory exhibits the characteristics of chamber music, symphonic music, and virtuoso music, often in a unified whole."

Karl Ulrich Schnabel performed and recorded with his father as his partner in the early 1990s. On record, several of these early performances are commemorated. The two split Primo and Secondo parts, as well as a pledge never to reveal who appeared on the recordings.

In 1939, he and his partner, American pianist Helen Fogel, established the Piano Duo Schnabel, which gave concerts for two pianos and orchestra, as well as recitals for one piano, four hands. The pair appeared in five performances with orchestra at the Holland Festival in 1956, and they appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 1972. The Schnabels mastered the challenges of four-hand playing with passion and enthusiasm, according to reports: [...] They brought the most important and difficult requisite of four-hand piano music closer to perfection." While two people are able to play a piece on one piano and be quite alike in terms of timing, phrasing, and expression, the Schnabels were a work of art."

Karl Ulrich Schnabel and the Canadian pianist Joan Rowland formed a new pair five years after his wife's death in 1979. The Washington Post praised this pair for their "combinet of spirit and jaunty elegance."

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