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description: Karl (Rudolf) Engel (Birsfelden, June 1, 1923 - Chernex, September 2, 2006) was a Swiss pianist. Songs:01 Mozart: Minuet：A.. 《Mozart : Piano..》43,914 02 Mozart: Andante elegant：..《Mozart : P ...

Karl (Rudolf) Engel (Birsfelden, June 1, 1923 - Chernex, September 2, 2006) was a Swiss pianist.

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01 Mozart: Minuet：A.. 《Mozart : Piano..》43,914
02 Mozart: Andante elegant：..《Mozart : Piano..》82,525
03 Piano Sonata No.11 I..《40 Most Beau..》1,695
04 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》8,513
05 Piano Sonata No.11 I..《The Classical G..》1,184
06 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》4,884
07 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》2,837
08 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》531
09 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》4,255
10 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》3,780
11 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》1,420
12 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》2,823
13 Mozart : Rondo in D ..《Mozart : Piano..》698
14 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》1,355
15 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》1,715
16 Piano Sonata No.3 in ..《Mozart : Piano..》1,660
17 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》3,571
18 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》262
19 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》609
20 Piano Sonata No.13 in..《Mozart : Piano..》522
21 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》1,082
22 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》1,311
23 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Drama tryst - ..》187
24 Adagio in C major K3..《Mozart : Piano..》398
25 Mozart : Piano Sonata..《Mozart : Piano..》422

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In 1952 Engel was awarded the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth competition. Throughout his concert career he cultivated the art song repertory and worked extensively on works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann. He also held a professorship at Musikhochschule Hannover for three decades.

Engel was a student of Paul Baumgartner (1903-1976) at the Basel Conservatory from 1942 to 1945. After World War II he studied with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in 1947-1948. In 1952 he won 2nd prize at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition in Brussels.

Karl Engel toured internationally as a soloist with orchestras, a recitalist and a chamber music performer. He became particularly known for his complete cycles of Mozart piano concertos 1974-1976, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Leopold Hager (Till Engel & L. Hager playing the two double concertos KV 242 & 365) and sonatas, and the Beethoven Piano Sonatas. His performances of complete piano works of Robert Schumann during the 1970s were highly esteemed. He also distinguished himself as an accompanist, often appearing in Lieder recitals with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Peter Schreier and Brigitte Fassbaender. Among his chamber music partners were the cellist Pablo Casals, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the Melos Quartet.

From 1958 to 1986 Karl Engel was Professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Germany. He led famous master-classes in France, Canada and Portugal. From 1989 he led master-classes in his homeland and abroad.

Son: Till Engel (* 1951), pianist, Professor at Folkwang Hochschule Essen, Germany.[1]

Karl Engel recorded the complete piano music of Mozart and of Robert Schumann and made numerous recordings with the singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier et al. He also recorded a remarkable account of Stravinsky's Piano Concerto.

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