Rudolph Buchbinder

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Rudolf Buchbinder (born 1 December 1946, in Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia) is an Austrian classical pianist. Buchbinder studied with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1965 he made a tour of North and South America. In 1966 he won a special prize awarded at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Subsequently he has toured with the Vienna Philharmonic and appeared as soloist around the world. He also has taught piano at the Basel Academy of Music. He has recorded the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and variations for the Teldec label as well as both Brahms piano concertos with Harnoncourt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. He is probably the only person to have ever recorded the entire Part II of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, which consists of 50 variations by 50 different composers on a waltz by Anton Diabelli. He has also recorded Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, which originally comprised Part I of that anthology. In 2009, Buchbinder was featured in the award-winning German-Austrian documentary Pianomania, about a Steinway & Sons piano tuner, which was directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. The film premiered theatrically in North America, where it was met with positive reviews by The New York Times, as well as in Asia and throughout Europe, and is a part of the Goethe-Institut catalogue. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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