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Artur Schnabel

1882 - 1951

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Artur Schnabel (17 April 1882 – 15 August 1951) was an Austrian-born classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert. Music critic Harold C. Schonberg described Schnabel as "the man who invented Beethoven". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Artur Schnabel is the 350th most popular musician (up from 380th in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 377th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Artur Schnabel ranks 350 out of 3,175. Before him are Kirk Hammett, PJ Harvey, Marco Hietala, Paul Wittgenstein, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Ian Anderson. After him are Florian Schneider, Riccardo Cocciante, Robert Wyatt, Jack White, Michael Schenker, and Matteo Carcassi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Artur Schnabel ranks 80. Before him are Leo Perutz, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Leopold Stokowski, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Joaquín Turina, and Lucien Petit-Breton. After him are Yoshijirō Umezu, Natalia Sedova, Korney Chukovsky, Hugh S. Johnson, Max Decugis, and Kimon Georgiev. Among people deceased in 1951, Artur Schnabel ranks 45. Before him are Empress Teimei, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Nikolai Medtner, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Serge Koussevitzky, and Sadegh Hedayat. After him are Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Robert Grant Aitken, Reggie Walker, Erich Naumann, Agrippina Vaganova, and Fritz Thyssen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Artur Schnabel ranks 323 out of 1,694. Before him are Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Zvi Zamir (1925), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Casimir II the Just (1138), and Stefan Czarniecki (1599). After him are Józef Elsner (1769), Kazimierz Deyna (1947), Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846), Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Vitello (1230), and Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (1116).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Artur Schnabel ranks 6. Before him are Władysław Szpilman (1911), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Wanda Landowska (1879), and Henryk Szeryng (1918). After him are Krystian Zimerman (1956), Carl Tausig (1841), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Julie Guicciardi (1782), Josef Hofmann (1876), and Christoph Eschenbach (1940).

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