He brought Schubert’s piano music to the public, wrote everyday life and always wanted to work out the core of a composition. Now the great pianist Alfred Brendel has died.
In the end, he almost caused a sensation as a poet. The pianist Alfred Brendel began to pour all sorts of everyday life and of course artist comic into relaxed, dadistically -looking verses in recent years. As if he had to prepare for his old part. But after his farewell in 2008, he had much less time than he initially thought. As a sought-after lecture traveler, he continued through those halls in which he has been living on the Bösendorfer and finally on the Steinway wing and also overtaking for 60 years.