Wilhelm Backhaus
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Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber mus
Wilhelm Backhaus, 1907
Eugen d'Albert
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Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany and later to Switzerland.
Wilhelm Backhaus
…whose recommendation Backhaus studied under Alois Reckendorf at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1891 and 1899, then took private piano lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt. As a boy of 9 or 10 he was taken to hear both of the Brahms piano concertos performed by d'Albert — and conducted by Brahms himself. He…
Eugen d'Albert in 1904
d'Albert aged 20
d'Albert and Hermine Finck in 1902
Villa Teresa, Coswig, home of d'Albert and Carreño from 1891 to 1895, now a museum