Paul Badura-Skoda became an international star after stepping in for the ailing Edwin Fischer at the Salzburg Festival in 1950.
Instruments
Paul Badura-Skoda was an initiator of the rediscovery of period instruments, recording the same Mozart works on a Mozart-era Walter pianoforte and a Bösendorfer grand piano in 1952/53.
Performer Biography
Paul Badura-Skoda, the pianist on this album, was offered a position as assistant conductor at the Vienna State Opera by Josef Krips in 1949, but his manager advised him to focus on his piano career.
Performer Biography
Paul Badura-Skoda is likely the only pianist to have repeatedly recorded and publicly performed all sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert on both fortepiano and modern grand piano.
Performer Biography
Paul Badura-Skoda is considered an international authority on textual questions in music, and his reflections led to supplements for Mozart's works and reconstructions of unfinished Schubert sonatas.
Performer Biography
Paul Badura-Skoda was the first Western pianist to perform in China after the Cultural Revolution in 1979, a pioneering achievement.
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