Schnabel's compositions include three symphonies, a piano concerto, five string quartets, and miscellaneous songs and pieces for the piano. Duodecimet, for wind, strings, and percussion, was his last work.
From 1925 to 1930 he taught at the Hochschule für Musik at Berlin; also at that time he began a series of recitals with the eminent violinist Carl Flesh , with whom he edited the violin sonatas of Brahms and Mozart. In 1934, Schnabel visited the U.S. to perform all of...