Rudolf Buchbinder

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Rudolf Buchbinder (2010)

Rudolf Buchbinder (born  December 1, 1946 in Litoměřice , Czechoslovakia ) is an Austrian pianist .

Life

At the age of five, Buchbinder became the youngest student at the University of Music in Vienna . He gave his first public concert when he was nine years old. In 1958 he was accepted into the master class of Bruno Seidlhofer , who also belonged to Friedrich Gulda , at the Vienna University of Music . In 1961, at the age of 15, he won first prize with the Vienna Piano Trio at the ARD music competition of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation in Munich. In 1962 he received the Lipatti Medal. After that, Buchbinder worked primarily as a chamber musician . The violinist Josef Suk and the cellist János Starker were his partners. Since then he has performed with all major orchestras and conductors . Occasionally he has conducted from the piano himself, for example in concerts with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra . In the course of his career he has acquired an impressive repertoire , which ranges from classical and romantic to works of the 20th century. Buchbinder was responsible for the world premiere of works by Gottfried von Eine and Gerhard Wimberger (2nd piano concerto 1984). He was best known as a Beethoven specialist. He has recorded more than 200 records. In 1976 he won the Grand Prix du Disque for recording all of Joseph Haydn's piano works . Commented by Joachim Kaiser , he played Beethoven's piano sonatas at music festivals.

Buchbinder has been the artistic director of the new Grafenegg Music Festival at Schloss Grafenegg (Lower Austria) since 2007 . In 2009 he appeared in the award-winning documentary Pianomania by the directors Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis . The film was very well received nationally and internationally, was celebrated at many festivals and included in the catalog of the Goethe Institute . Buchbinder reads and paints in his spare time.

Works

Chart positions
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Albums
Beethoven - The Sonata Legacy
  AT 69 07/01/2011 (1 week)
Summer Night Concert 2015 - Summer Night Concert (with Zubin Mehta & Vienna Philharmonic )
  AT 31 06/12/2015 (2 weeks)
The Diabelli Project
  AT 66 March 20, 2020 (1 week)

CD publications (selection)

  • 2012: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 23 & 25 , Sony Classical
  • 2013: Schubert: Impromptus D 899, Sonate D 960, Sony Classical
  • 2014: Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, Sony Classical
  • 2015: Summer Night Concert 2015 : Rudolf Buchbinder & Vienna Philharmonic ud direction by Zubin Mehta , Sony Classical
  • 2015: Bach: Partitas, BWV 825 & 826 - English Suite, BWV 808, Sony Classical
  • 2016: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos, K.466, K.467- Rudolf Buchbinder & Staatskapelle Dresden , Sony Classical

Book publications

student

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Buchbinder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: AT
  2. ↑ BR-Klassik from March 30, 2020 Review by Alexandra Maria Dielitz , accessed on April 20, 2020
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952. In: parlament.gv.at (PDF; 6.9 MB).
  4. ^ Lower Austrian Tourism Prize ( Memento from October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Gloria Artis Medal to Rudolf Buchbinder. In: Der Standard , April 21, 2011, accessed April 23, 2011.
  6. ^ Website Echo Klassik ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Buchbinder receives the Vienna Mozart Prize. In: orf.at , June 21, 2017, accessed on June 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Buchbinder, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concert pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Litoměřice , Czechoslovakia