The Young Friedrich Gulda

Beethoven, Ludwig van;
Debussy, Claude;
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus;
Chopin, Fryderyk;
Strauss, Richard;
Ravel, Maurice;
Weber, Carl Maria von

London Philharmonic Orchestra;
Wiener Philharmoniker;
London Symphony Orchestra;
Gulda, Friedrich

PH 19017

“A master of pointed rhythmic urgency between classical and popular music ..."

Friedrich Gulda was born in Vienna on May 16, 1930. He began his musical education at the Grossmann Conservatory and subsequently took private lessons from Felix Pazofsky.

From 1942 to 1947 he studied piano at the Vienna Academy of Music under Bruno Seidlhofer and Music Theory and Composition under Joseph Marx. He gave his first public performance in 1944 and, two years later when just 16 years old, won the Geneva International Music Competition. Starting after the Second World War, as a 20-year-old, Gulda established himself as a piano soloist with an excellent international reputation and even performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1950.

In the 1950s he was celebrated and considered the leading interpreter of Beethoven in his generation. He founded his own Klassische Orchester Gulda for chamber music with members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to Beethoven, Gulda’s repertoire encompasses works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss, whose Burleske in D minor and lieder are included in this release, with Gulda accompanying soprano Hilde Güden.

Despite all the quirks and eccentricities of his personality, Gulda was an immensely talented and gifted pianist whom Joachim Kaiser praised as a “master of pointed rhythmic urgency between classical and popular music ... and at the same time brilliant as a flash of lightning and delicately sensitive.”

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01-09-2022

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