Walter Klien

別名：華爾特·克林

國籍：歐美

出生地：奧地利格拉茨

生日：1928 年 11 月 27 日

逝世日期：1991 年 2 月 10 日

Walter Klien (1928-1991 )瓦爾特.克林，奧地利鋼琴家，早年在格拉茨音樂學(xué)院學(xué)習(xí)鋼琴，1951年在布索尼國際比賽中獲獎，嶄露頭角，1952年到巴黎深造，曾師從米凱蘭杰利。1953年參加瑪格麗特·隆—蒂博鋼琴比賽獲獎，從而奠定了演奏家地位。1953年后，與施奈德漢舉行二重奏演奏會，晚年與格魯米歐錄制的莫扎特小提琴與鋼琴奏鳴曲作品頗受好評。

克林是美國Vox唱片公司簽約的主要鋼琴家之一。Vox當(dāng)時的鋼琴主力是兩位鋼琴家，布倫德爾、克林。他們聯(lián)手彈奏的勃拉姆斯匈牙利舞曲，德沃夏克斯拉夫舞曲是同曲目的首選。布倫德爾后來轉(zhuǎn)到Philips公司，成了世界級鋼琴明星，但克林留在了VOX，名氣始終停留在歐洲一帶，不為多數(shù)人所知。

克林晚年錄制勃拉姆斯，舒伯特，莫扎特鋼琴獨奏作品也極有味道。

職業(yè)：Klien was born in Graz in 1928. His mother was the artist Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957). She emigrated to the United States in 1929, and their only further contact was by correspondence.

Klien studied piano with Josef Dichler at the Music Academy in Vienna and with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. He also studied composition with Paul Hindemith.

He was a laureate of the Busoni Competition in Bolzano and the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris and made his debut in the United States in 1969. In 1953 he had been awarded the Bosendorfer Prize in Vienna.

Shortly before his death from cancer in 1991 (which occurred shortly before a planned visit to Australia), he was honoured with the Joseph Marx Music Prize in 1987 and the gold medal of the city of Vienna in 1989.

錄音：His discography is large, and much of it has been reissued on CD or is available in download format. It includes the complete solo piano works and many of the piano concertos of Mozart, much of the piano music of Brahms, as well as the complete piano sonatas of Schubert. He partnered Arthur Grumiaux in recording the Mozart music for piano and violin, and Rena Kyriakou in the complete piano music of Chabrier.

He performed and recorded piano duo and duet repertoire with his wife, Beatriz Klien and with his Graz contemporary Alfred Brendel.

He was much admired for his crystalline tone and projection of detail in his interpretations. His clarity of playing suited the music of Mozart and Schubert in particular. These qualities are also very evident in his Brahms recordings, where the dense textures of the writing can easily obscure the musical argument. Critics continue to regard his complete Schubert sonatas as amongst the finest recorded, not least for their unique Viennese lilt and unaffected ease.