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Rudolf Buchbinder (born 1 December 1946, Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia) is an Austrian classical pianist.
Biography[edit]
Buchbinder studied with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1965 he made a tour of North and South America. In 1966 he won a special prize awarded at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Subsequently he has toured with the Vienna Philharmonic and appeared as soloist around the world.
He has also taught piano at the Basel Academy of Music.
For the Teldec label he has recorded the complete keyboard music of Joseph Haydn, all the Beethoven piano sonatas and variations, and both Brahms piano concertos with Harnoncourt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. With János Starker, he recorded memorable performances of works for cello and piano by Beethoven and Brahms.
He is probably the only person to have ever recorded the entire Part II of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, which consists of 50 variations by 50 different composers on a waltz by Anton Diabelli. He has also recorded Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, which originally comprised Part I of that anthology.
In 2009, Buchbinder was featured in the award-winning German-Austrian documentary Pianomania, about a Steinway & Sons piano tuner, which was directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. The film premiered theatrically in North America, where it was met with positive reviews by The New York Times, as well as in Asia and throughout Europe, and is a part of the Goethe-Institut catalogue.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist}} template (see the help page).
Decorations and awards[edit]
This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.1961: First Prize at the International Competition in Munich, division "Piano Trio"1970: Mozart Interpretation Prize of the Austrian Minister for Education and the Arts1977: Grand Prix du Disque for the entire piano works of Joseph Haydn1989: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art1992 Honorary Member of the Vienna Symphony1994: Honorary Member of the Carinthian Summer1995: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class1996: Great Merit of the Province of Salzburg1996: Grand Gold Decoration of Carinthia1996: Bruckner Ring of the Vienna Konzerthaus1996: Gold Medal for services to the City of Vienna1999: Grand Gold Decoration of Lower Austria2003: Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria2004: Gold Medal of Salzburg2007: Gold Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna2008: Honorary Member of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna2010: Tourism Award of the State of Lower Austria for his work in music tourism in Grafenegg2011: Gloria Artis, Medal for Merit to Culture2012: Echo Klassik in German music award as Instrumentalist of the Year (piano) and the album Beethoven: The Sonata Legacy issued by RCA Red Seal/SonyCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist}} template (see the help page).