Karl Ulrich Schnabel

Karl Ulrich Schnabel (6 August 1909 Berlin-27 August 2001 Danbury, CT) was an Austrian pianist, and the son of pianist Artur Schnabel and operatic contralto Therese Behr. From 1922–1926 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Leonid Kreutzer and Paul Juon. Although overshadowed by his father's achievement in expressing a new vision of the Classical repertory, Schnabel was still able to develop his own individual style of playing and a poetic insight. He sometimes played for his mother in her recitals and recordings and he is remembered for his imaginative interpretation of the Schubert song cycles. He also made some distinguished recordings of Schubert piano duets with his father. In 1926 he made his recital début in Berlin, gave recitals throughout Europe until leaving for the USA shortly before World War II. There he married the American pianist, Helen Fogel, with whom he played a large repertory of piano duets. After the war he became active as a recitalist and taught at the Dalcroze school in New York. He became an internationally renowned teacher of the piano. During World War II he led a laboratory for electronic music. He published "Modern Technique of the Pedal" (New York, 1950). Later in life he taught numerous master classes at Mills College in Oakland, California.

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*William Glock. The "New Grove Dictionary of Opera", edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), ISBN 0-333-73432-7 and ISBN 1-56159-228-5