Paul Badura-Skoda
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Paul Badura-Skoda (born October 6, 1927 in Vienna) is an Austrian pianist.
He won first prize in the Austrian Music Competition in 1947. In 1949, he performed with noted conductors like Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan.
He has specialized in works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, but has an extensive repertoire, with a vast amount of recordings, including more than 200 LPs.
Together with his wife Eva Badura-Skoda, he has also produced musical scholarship of impressive quality. The Badura-Skodas edited one of the volumes of Mozart's piano concertos for the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Serie V/Werkgruppe 15/Band 5, consisting of K. 453, 456, and 459).
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- Paul Badura-Skoda's Homepage. The information above is largely adapted from the biography given on this homepage.
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