LONDON — Alfred Brendel, a pianist and poet renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven over a six-decade career, died Tuesday at his home in London. He was 94. Brendel’s death was announced by the ...

Alfred Brendel, revered globally as one of the greatest classical pianists of the 20th century, has died at the age of 94. He passed away peacefully in London on Tuesday, surrounded by his family.

One of the greatest pianists of his generation who bestrode the musical world for six decades In the postscript to his 1998 book of poetry One Finger Too Many, the pianist Alfred Brendel cites among ...

New York — AS someone who appreciates the world’s absurdities, Alfred Brendel has naturally been following the current scandal in his own field: how the widower of a long-ailing British pianist has ...

Well, not quite complete – there’s no Op.64, Beethoven’s arrangement of his early Piano Trio. But all five sonatas and three sets of variations are here. Alfred is the dominant force throughout, a ...

It may have been a grand piano on stage at Symphony Center that was coaxed, coddled and caressed by that grand poet Alfred Brendel, but his recital of works by three masters was in fact a celebration ...

It was an astonishing moment — toward the end of his solo recital Sunday afternoon at Zellerbach Hall, pianist Alfred Brendel, playing the central Adagio movement of Mozart’s K. 457 Piano Sonata in C ...

Brendel's death was announced by the public relations agency Bolton & Quinn. Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Brendel gave his first recital in Graz, Austria, in 1948 at age 17. His final ...