Paul Badura-Skoda

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Paul Badura-Skoda (born October 6, 1927 in Vienna ; † September 25, 2019 there ) was an Austrian pianist , piano pedagogue , university teacher , music writer and editor .

Life

Paul Badura-Skoda won two years after the beginning of his piano - studies at the Vienna Conservatory in 1947 the first prize of the Austrian Music Competition and received a scholarship for a master class with Edwin Fischer . This was followed by victories in competitions in Budapest and Paris .

From 1949 he performed with important conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan . In 1949, for example, he played in the Wiener Musikverein with the Vienna Philharmonic under Wilhelm Furtwängler Mozart's Concerto for two pianos in E flat major, KV 365. His piano partner was Furtwängler's daughter Dagmar Bella. Paul Badura-Skoda's standing in for the sick Edwin Fischer at the Salzburg Festival in 1950 received a lot of attention . From 1954 he was an assistant to Edwin Fischer.

An international career followed from the 1950s with extensive concert tours to Australia , the USA , Canada , Mexico and South America , and later to Japan , the Soviet Union and China , where Badura-Skoda was the first western pianist to perform after the Cultural Revolution . There were also numerous records and CD recordings, appearances on television and at renowned music festivals , some of which he also conducted himself.

Badura-Skoda also worked as a professor for several generations of piano students. He began to give piano lessons in master classes at an early age , his artistic and pedagogical work took him several times to Europe, America and Asia, from 1966 to 1971 he was artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin . As a visiting professor he taught at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1974 , and from 1975 to 1981 he taught at what was then the Folkwang Academy of Music in Essen . In 1981 he was appointed full professor for piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , where he worked until his retirement in 1994.

The main focus of his extensive repertoire (he has made more than 200 recordings) are works by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert and Frank Martin , who wrote Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 (1968/1969) for him.

Early on he turned to historically informed performance practice and was highly praised for his recordings on old instruments. His complete recordings of the piano sonatas by Mozart and Schubert on historical grand pianos on the Astree label became famous. Since 1978 Paul Badura-Skoda has been the bearer of the Bösendorfer Ring , an award that had only been bestowed on one person before him, namely Wilhelm Backhaus . Bösendorfer awards the ring to selected pianists who embody the tradition of Viennese music-making.

Paul Badura-Skoda appeared - partly with his wife Eva Badura-Skoda - as a music writer and editor of editions of works. He was an honorary doctor of the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim . He also wrote cadenzas for Mozart piano concertos .

Several of his recorded CDs have been released on the Leipzig classic label GENUIN . In the Mozart year 1991 he performed all of the composer's piano sonatas in Regensburg .

Paul Badura-Skoda was a member of the jury at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1990 and 1995 . In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the International German Pianist Prize in Frankfurt am Main, from which Dmitri Levkovich emerged as a laureate.

On October 15, 2017, on the occasion of his recently celebrated 90th birthday, Badura-Skoda gave a completely sold-out concert in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein with the following program: Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Bagatelles for piano op. 126; Sonata for piano in E major, op. 109 ; Sonata for piano in A flat major, op. 110 ; Sonata for Piano in C minor, op.111 . He was buried on October 9, 2019 at the Ottakringer Friedhof .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pianist Paul Badura-Skoda is dead . In: wien.orf.at, September 26, 2019, accessed on September 26, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Michael Schmidt: Pioneer of historical performance practice . In: br-klassik.de, September 26, 2019, accessed on September 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d We mourn our honorary member. o.Univ.-Prof. Paul Badura-Skoda . In: mdw.ac.at, accessed on September 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ Kaup-Hasler: "Paul Badura-Skoda - a master of his trade." . In: ots.at, September 26, 2019, accessed on September 26, 2019.
  5. ^ A b Paul Badura-Skoda . In: boesendorfer.com, accessed on September 28
  6. ^ Paul Badura-Skoda . In: badura-skoda.cc, September 15, 2020, accessed on May 10, 2020.
  7. ↑ Biography on tobconcert.de ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b c biography of Paul Badura-Skoda . In: Homepage of Paul Badura-Skoda, accessed on September 26, 2019.
  9. ^ Archive report of the town hall correspondence from November 28, 2007
  10. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  11. ^ Honorary members of the Vienna Beethoven Society . In: beethovengesellschaft.at, accessed on September 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Badura-Skoda, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2019
Place of death Vienna