Artur Schnabel
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"Artur Schnabel" was an Austrian Classical music/classical pianist, who also composer/composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and most important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Ludwig van Beethoven/Beethoven and Franz Schubert/Schubert. His performances of these compositions have often been hailed as models of interpretative penetration, and his best-known recordings are those of the Beethoven piano sonatas. Harold C. Schonberg referred to Schnabel as "the man who invented Beethoven".

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I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides!