Friedrich Gulda: 13 Original Albums [CD de audio] Friedrich Gulda and Ludwig van Beethoven

What connected Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda with Ludwig van Beethoven the rebel, the obstinate, the outsider was not only the unconditional will to pursue his unique artistic path, but also the fundamental spirit of contradiction. The exceptional pianist, often referred to as a "Beethoven-confidant" in the music press, set standards with his ingenious interpretations of Beethoven's compositions, while at the same time posing as a "classics rebel". Gulda accepted no genre boundaries, snubbed music purists, which he described as "stuck up classics-fools" and liked to shock with his "expanded musical concept". A music business that focused primarily on the re-creations of dead composers repelled him. "I don't want to be a living corpse," he announced and began his extraordinarily fruitful liaison with jazz. The interpretive freedom he had gained from improvised music benefited his playing of 18th and 19th century literature. "Gulda's perplexity, his charming distrust of established cu