Überlegungen zu Mozart. Lecture by Alfred Brendel (german)

Since his last public concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic in December 2008 (recorded on CD by Decca), he has remained active with lectures, poetry readings - assisted by Pierre-Laurent Aimard - and master classes. Preference is given to work with string quartets. Lectures on the late music of Beethoven, on Mozart interpretation, comic music, Schubert or Liszt he gave at Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, McGill, the New England Conservatory and Juilliard as well as Oxford and Cambridge.

"Is it still necessary to point out that Mozart is not 'easier to play' because fewer notes easier to play' because there are fewer notes, chords and bravura passages? Mozart is so demanding because every note, every nuance counts and everything is exposed, especially in the extreme reduction of the piano sonatas. reduction of the piano sonatas. Perhaps here the experience of the player, like in Kleist's the experience of the player, as in Kleist's 'On the Puppet Theatre', must first have gone through an infinite grace reasserts itself."

- Alfred Brendel

Alfred Brendel, born in 1931, pianist and writer, but also a man of the eyes who cannot live without the visual arts. After 60 years of concert activity, he now gives lectures and readings of his poetry, and enjoys working with young string quartets.