Artist
Paul Badura-Skoda
1927 – 2019
Paul Badura-Skoda (Vienna, October 6, 1927 – there, September 25, 2019) was an Austrian pianist. He built an international career.
Badura-Skoda won an Austrian music competition at the beginning of his music career in 1947. He studied under Edwin Fischer. Since 1949 he performed with leading conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan.
He pursued an international career and performed more than two hundred pieces, a significant part of which came from composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
What is rather exceptional for a pianist of his caliber is his application of historically informed performance practice. He owed his fame in part to his collection of piano sonatas by Mozart and Schubert on historical fortepianos with the label Astree. Much other work was released through the label Genuin Classics.
Together with his wife Eva Halfar, he also came forward as a composer and music publisher. In addition, he wrote cadenzas (improvisational work) for piano concertos. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim.
Through the donation of his music collection to the Musikinstrumentenmuseum Schloss Kremsegg in Kremsmünster, a special collection dedicated to him was established there.
Badura-Skoda won an Austrian music competition at the beginning of his music career in 1947. He studied under Edwin Fischer. Since 1949 he performed with leading conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan.
He pursued an international career and performed more than two hundred pieces, a significant part of which came from composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
What is rather exceptional for a pianist of his caliber is his application of historically informed performance practice. He owed his fame in part to his collection of piano sonatas by Mozart and Schubert on historical fortepianos with the label Astree. Much other work was released through the label Genuin Classics.
Together with his wife Eva Halfar, he also came forward as a composer and music publisher. In addition, he wrote cadenzas (improvisational work) for piano concertos. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim.
Through the donation of his music collection to the Musikinstrumentenmuseum Schloss Kremsegg in Kremsmünster, a special collection dedicated to him was established there.
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