I look at the composer like a father, and I look at his music with loving but critical eyes. I try to understand what he has written down. Have your own revisions to your writing ever made you tempted to consider revising a score by, say Beethoven or Mozart?Ī.B.: I am not a governess who treats the composer like a child and tells him what he should compose. Creative artists are always refining ideas. Your essays on music cover every conceivable topic of piano and piano literature, but you invariably call those essays "works in progress" - therefore subject to revision. I know that when you're not playing, some of what you do is write. But I try to do about four hours.į.C.: You mention that you're just back from a tour of Europe and you'll be coming to America shortly -Ī.B.: Well, the European tour continues next Monday and then I shall be back, and then I go to America.į.C.: It sounds like you're very busy. I just came back from a tour and there is a lot of mail to which I have to reply, and I have some literary projects I am finishing. Brendel, I'm curious, what have you been practicing today?Īlfred Brendel: Actually Schubert's posthumous pieces that I am playing in my program in the United States.į.C.: How much time do you spend at the piano on a day when you're at home in London?Ī.B.: That depends on what else I have to do.
Fresh from his European tour, from his flat in London, Alfred Brendel joins me. One of the most recognized profiles in musical art belongs to a man who's been called 'The Thinker' at the piano, "The man who does not let reason capitulate before the sheets of music." That would be Alfred Brendel, he of the hunched back over the keyboard with his big black glasses and that puckish smile that often appears. Alfred Brendel, from his 2005 CD Mozart: Piano Sonatasįred Child: Among the most recognized icons in visual art is The Thinker, the sculpture from the 1880s by Auguste Rodin.
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