Beethoven / Mozart / Schubert - Tales from Vienna - Pressler, Menahem (piano)

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Menahem Pressler, piano

These intersecting tales from Vienna, so close in time and space, could only have been born on the banks of a great river that diffused the new blood of Europe. Vienna was ablaze with brilliance in 1800. Some have seen it as the dress rehearsal of the century to come.

Born in Magdeburg on 16 December 1923, Menahem Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1938. It was in Israel, where he was raised, that he received most of his training, with the pianists Eliahu Rudiakov and Leo Kestenberg, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, followed by lessons with Eduard Steuermann, also a Busoni disciple, in the United States. His musical learning and his profound knowledge of the piano and chamber music have earned him an undisputed reputation.