Artur Schnabel was one of the greatest Schubert-Beethoven-Mozart players of all time, and any commentary of his on this repertory is valuable.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

He was inspired to begin an art career when a fan, Julian Schnabel, who admired the artwork seen on his album covers, asked to buy a drawing from him.

Artur Schnabel, about 1906Artur Schnabel ( April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951 ) was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught.

Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura.

Born in Lipnik ( Kunzendorf ) near Bielitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( today a part of Bielsko-Biała, Poland ), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine ( née Labin ).

Mandyczewski was an assistant to Johannes Brahms, and through him Schnabel was introduced to Brahms ' circle and was often in the great composer's presence.

The young Schnabel once heard Brahms play in a performance of his first piano quartet ; for all the missed notes, said Schnabel, it " was in the true grand manner.

He was replaced by Hugo Becker and this became the third Schnabel Trio.

Schnabel was best known for his devotion to the core German composers, especially the Viennese classics of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

Schnabel was known for championing the then-neglected sonatas of Schubert and, even more so, Beethoven, including his more challenging late works.

( It is interesting, in this regard, to note that Schnabel was a close friend of Arnold Schoenberg, his Austrian-American compatriot, who was famous as a pioneering composer of atonal and twelve-tone music.

It was claimed by P. Schnabel in 1923 that Kidinnu theorized about precession in 315 BC.

He approved of spontaneous applause and was of the opposite opinion from Artur Schnabel, Sir Henry Wood and Leopold Stokowski, who did all they could to stamp out the practice of clapping between movements.

In Berlin, he was instructed by Leonid Kreutzer and, at the Berlin Academy of Arts, by Artur Schnabel.

Turner was a close friend of the pianist Artur Schnabel, about whom he frequently wrote, and with whom he frequently went hiking.

In 2000 this work was made into a film, directed by Julian Schnabel, in which Arenas was played by Javier Bardem.

From 1925 Schnabel taught at the Berlin State Academy, where his masterclasses brought him great renown.

However, it has been suggested by some that " Schnabel, uprooted from his native heritage, may have been clinging to the great German composers in an attempt to keep his cultural origins alive ".

In 1932 he returned once again to Berlin, succeeding his great contemporary Artur Schnabel in a teaching role at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik after Schnabel's departure from Nazi Germany.

During its early period, the Hall attracted great artists like Artur Schnabel, Pablo Sarasate, Percy Grainger, Myra Hess, Arthur Rubinstein, Camille Saint-Saëns and Max Reger.

They had two sons, Karl Ulrich Schnabel ( 1909 – 2001 ) who also became a classical pianist and renowned piano teacher, and Stefan Schnabel ( 1912 – 99 ), who became a well regarded actor.

In May 2007 The Dirtbombs were invited by director Julian Schnabel to play at the Cannes Film Festival in honor of their song " Chains of Love ", from the Ultraglide LP, being featured in his award-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.

Returning once again to the Schnabel reissue, I am beguiled anew by the magnificence of this pianist's musical penetration.

Artur Schnabel complained once that " Steinway refused to let me use their pianos Steinway pianos owned by Steinway unless I would give up playing the Bechstein piano – which I had used for so many years – in Europe.

Following World War I, Schnabel also toured widely, visiting the United States, Russia and England.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

Babylonian astronomers before Kidinnu's time apparently already knew the Saros cycle ( old eclipse observations were collected in tables organised according to the Saros cycle since the late 5th century BC ) and the Metonic cycle ( the dates of the lunar calendar in the Saros tables follow a regular 19-year pattern of embolismic months at least since 498 BC ); both cycles are also used in System B. Schnabel computed specific years ( first 314 BC and later 379 BC ) for the origin of the System B lunar theory, but Franz Xaver Kugler and Otto E. Neugebauer later disproved Schnabel's calculations.

International artists are few in the collection, but there are works by Robert Delaunay, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Jacques Lipchitz, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Max Ernst, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd, Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Gabriel Orozco, Clyfford Still, cubist still lifes by Georges Braque and a large work by Francis Bacon.

The other mentors on the series are filmmaker Julian Schnabel, ballet dancer and choreographer Jacques d ' Amboise, architect Frank Gehry, artist Olafur Eliasson, playwright Edward Albee, dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, actress Liv Ullmann, and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

Other related methods which are often used include the Jolly-Seber model ( used in open populations and for multiple census estimates ) and Schnabel estimators ( described above as an expansion to the Lincoln-Petersen method for closed populations ).

When a Schnabel car is empty, the two lifting arms are connected, and the car can usually operate at normal freight train speeds.

On his early American tours, he programmed works such as the Chopin Preludes and Schumann's Fantasie in C. Among other works that he played, as recalled by those such as Claudio Arrau and Vladimir Horowitz, who had heard Schnabel in the 1920s, were Chopin's E minor Piano Concerto and the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, and Weber's Konzertstück in F minor, Piano Sonata No. 2, and Invitation to the Dance.

Composers Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions have commented that they show signs of undoubted genius ( see biography of Schnabel by Cesar Saerchinger ).

* listen to moonlight sonata Beethoven ’ s Moonlight Sonata performed by Artur Schnabel

* 1993: Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud by Julian Schnabel

Dan Schnabel beat the previous record set by over 100 holes and finished with 1, 305 holes played including three aces during that time period.

27, No. 2, performed by Artur Schnabel

" They have been performed by many well-known pianists, including Sviatoslav Richter, Glenn Gould, Alfred Brendel, Artur Schnabel and Wilhelm Kempff.

In the pre-war years, Legge pioneered " subscription " recordings, by which the public were invited to pay in advance for their copies of future recordings, thus making it economically possible for EMI to make such " niche " but classic recordings as the songs of Hugo Wolf ( sung by Elena Gerhardt ) and the complete piano works of Beethoven ( played by Artur Schnabel ).

Basquiat is a 1996 biopic / drama film directed by fellow painter Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist / neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.