What is Artur Schnabel?
{{Infobox person | name = Artur Schnabel | image = ArturSchnabel.png | caption = Artur Schnabel, about 1906 | birth_name = Artur Schnabel | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1882|4|17}} | birth_place = [[Lipnik, Bielsko-Biała|Lipnik (Kunzendorf)]] near [[Bielsko|Bielitz]], [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]], [[Austria–Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (today a part of [[Bielsko-Biała]], [[Poland]]) | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1951|8|15|1882|4|17}} | death_place = Axenstein, [[Switzerland]] | resting_place = [[Schwyz]], Switzerland | occupation = [[Pianist]] and [[Composer]] }} '''Artur Schnabel''' (17 April 1882 – 15 August 1951) was an Austrian classical pianist, composer and teacher. He was one of the best pianists of the twentieth century. He was a very serious pianist. He did not try to impress people by playing fast or loud. He was most famous for playing music by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] and [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] and [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]. ==Life== The place where Schnabel was born was called Kunzendorf. It was near a town that was called Bielitz, in Austria-Hungary. Now Kunzendorf is called Lipnik, and Bielitz is called [[Bielsko-Biała]], and it is in [[Poland]].<ref>Schnabel, Artur (1961, republished 1988). My Life And Music. New York & London: Dover/Smythe</ref> When he was two years old his family moved to [[Vienna]]. He started to play the piano when he was four. When he was nine he started to take piano lessons with the famous teacher [[Theodore Leschetizsky]].<ref>Saerchinger, Cesar (1957). Arthur Schnabel: A Biography. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.</ref><ref>''88 notes pour piano solo'', [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]], Neva Editions, 2015, p. 356. {{ISBN|978-2-3505-5192-0}}</ref> He studied with Leschetizsky for seven years, until 1897. He also studied [[music theory]] and [[composition (music)|composition]] with [[Eusebius Mandyczewski]]. He gave his first concert in Vienna in 1897. After that he played more concerts in [[Bud