since 2001 musicologist and director of the music archives at the Academy of the Arts, has edited various publications as well as an extensive exhibition catalogue about Artur Schnabel. The German edition of the present volume was the first biography of Schnabel to be published in the German language – and the first biography to appear since the 1957 publication in English of Cesar Saerchinger’s book, “Artur Schnabel. A Biography”.