Ingrid Haebler (born 20 June 1929)
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and privately in Paris with

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. She toured worldwide. She is best known for a series of recordings from the 1950s to 1980s. Her complete set of

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's piano sonatas for the Denon label is still regarded as among the finest sets. Haebler also recorded all of Mozart's piano concertos (most of them twice), often with her own cadenzas – and all of

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's sonatas. She was one of several Austrian musicians to experiment early with period instruments, having recorded the keyboard concertos of

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on a

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, with the Capella Academica Wien under Eduard Melkus, as well as Mozart's keyboard concertos nos. 1-4 with the same ensemble and director for

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. Her recordings of Mozart and

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

with the violinist

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Polish ...

are particularly prized. Although born in

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, Austria, Haebler's parents moved to Poland when she was just three weeks old. She remained there until she was 10. Many celebrated musicians were regular visitors to the Haebler home including Claudio Arrau, Robert Casadesus and Bronislaw Huberman. It was Casadesus who recognised the child's talent as a pianist and predicted a great future for her. On the outbreak of World War II the family moved to Salzburg where Miss Haebler made her first public appearance at the age of 11. She took up studies at the Mozarteum under Professor Heinz Scholz, graduating in 1949 with distinction for her playing of Mozart and along the way developing a taste for music of the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. That same year Haebler won the

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of the

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. Through the 1950s Ingrid Haebler's repertoire ranged from Bach to Stravinsky and she toured extensively in Europe, North Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada and Japan. She began annual appearances at the Salzburg Festival in 1954.

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"Celebrated musicians' concert tours of Southern Africa 1953 -1978 "
Ingrid Haebler 1969, touring Southern Africa Austrian classical pianists Austrian women pianists Musicians from Vienna 1929 births Living people University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni Mozarteum University Salzburg alumni 21st-century classical pianists Women classical pianists 21st-century women pianists {{classical-pianist-stub