sentences:  Pavel Štěpán made his first public appearance at the age of sixteen, two years later to make his debut performance with the Czech Philharmonic playing Mozart's "Piano Concerto No.24" in C minor K 491 under the baton of Rafael Kubelík.In 1971 and 1982 he received the Wiener Flötenuhr award for the year's best Mozartian recording, and in 1978 his reading of the complete piano works of Josef Suk was presented Supraphon Golden Disc as recording of the year.He died, aged 73, in Prague.