Peter Schmalfuss

Peter Schmalfuss is one of those ubiquitous and highly gifted artists who turns up on a variety of recordings for smaller labels, often featuring mixed repertory played by several different pianists. Yet Schmalfuss has established a successful career of his own, both on the world's concert stages and in the recording studio, playing a fairly wide range of repertory, but garnering accolades particularly for his performances of works by Beethoven and Chopin. Born in Berlin in 1937, Peter Schmalfuss exhibited musical talent early on and by his teens had become an accomplished pi...