Buchbinder, Rudolf#

b. Litomeřice, Czech Republic, Dec. 1, 1946, concert pianist. At the age of 5 began his training at the Hochschule fuer Musik (now University of Music and Performing Arts) in Vienna as the youngest student at this institution. First public performance at the age of 9; since then many international concert tours and recordings; numerous awards (e.g. winner of the Beethoven Piano Competition in 1967, Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of J. Haydn's complete works); further noteworthy recordings: all of L. van Beethoven's piano sonatas, piano concertos by J. Brahms, waltzes by J. Strauss in an arrangement for piano.