Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is an important specialist in core Austro-Germanic repertory, bringing precision and taste to music from Haydn to Brahms. He was a pioneering champion of Haydn's keyboard music, recording that composer's complete piano sonatas in the 1970s. Over the next several decades, Buchbinder appeared across Europe, the U.S., and Japan, frequently touring with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and becoming a specialist in core Viennese repertory. In 2007, Buchbinder became the artistic director of Austria's Grafenegg Festival and was featured in the documentary Pianomania (2009). In 2022, Buchbinder released an album featuring Chopin's complete Preludes and the recital Soirée de Vienne. He returned in 2024 with an album of Max Reger's piano transcriptions of Brahms songs. By that time, his recording catalog numbered some 100 releases during the digital era, plus many LPs.