10 Facts About Ingrid Haebler

Ingrid Haebler was an Austrian classical pianist.

Ingrid Haebler's parents moved to Poland shortly after her birth, where she remained for her early childhood.

Ingrid Haebler took up studies at the Mozarteum under Professor Heinz Scholz, graduating in 1949 with distinction for her playing of Mozart, and along the way developing a taste for music of the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.

That same year Ingrid Haebler won the Lilli Lehmann Medal of the International Mozarteum Foundation.

Ingrid Haebler studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Vienna Music Academy, Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve and privately in Paris with Marguerite Long.

Ingrid Haebler toured worldwide and is best known for a series of recordings she made from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Ingrid Haebler's complete set of Mozart's piano sonatas for the Denon label is still regarded as among the finest sets.

Ingrid Haebler recorded all of Mozart's piano concertos, often with her own cadenzas, and all of Schubert's sonatas.

Ingrid Haebler was one of several Austrian musicians to experiment early with period instruments, having recorded the keyboard concertos of Johann Christian Bach on a fortepiano, with the Capella Academica Wien under Eduard Melkus, as well as Mozart's keyboard concertos nos.

Ingrid Haebler began annual appearances at the Salzburg Festival in 1954.