I am sorry to report, the pianist Paul Badura-Skoda has died, just shy of his 92th birthday. The news comes only a week after his death was rumored on social media. Who would want to perpetrate an internet hoax about the death of a 91 year-old pianist?
As I had previously confused him with Jörg Demus, another musician with a venerable career, who died in April at the age of 90, here’s a clip of the two playing together, in a selection from Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor.
Want to live a long life? Take up the piano.