Friedrich Gulda: Beautiful Eccentric

Friedrich Gulda is a wonderful pianist, one of my favorite players. Decades ago I owned his box of vinyl LPs of the Beethoven piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic and I still think it is the best recording. I have his box of the Beethoven piano sonatas on my shelf and his Bach Well-Tempered Klavier--the latter I have described as being for those people who find Glenn Gould's Bach too romantic!

Anyway, I just ran across this film of him playing Mozart in Munich in, I think, 1995. Could you imagine any of today's stars playing a concert wearing that shirt?

Why do I call him a beautiful eccentric? He once faked his own death just to publicize a concert.