"Walter Gieseking was a victim -- artistically, at least -- of World War II. When the Germans started the war, Gieseki…"

"A tall, hulking man walked on to the stage at Carnegie Hall last week, bent himself into an awkward bow at the piano,…"

"His music spoke so eloquently that Sunday afternoon that members of the small audience told their friends. No one, ac…"

"He is, critics say unanimously, a great musician. To appraise him seems almost impertinent and so they write of his p…"

"Unforgettable were Kreisleriana, Davidsbündlertänze, the Bach Variations by Reger. Those three—unforgettable. You kno…"

"I was impressed mostly by Gieseking [Horowitz said in 1987]. He had a finished style, played with elegance, and had a…"

"is an enchanted thing like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion. Like Gieseking…"

"Gieseking played all of the German composers and went as far afield as the Rachmaninoff concertos. He was one of the …"

""Ich glaube, dass in Debussys Musik der Einklang mit den Kräften des Lebens und der Natur spürbar ist im Sinne des Ei…"

"Dirichlet was not satisfied to study Gauss' "Disquisitiones arithmeticae" once or several times, but continued throug…"