Editing Artur Schnabel (section)

===Leschetizky years===
Schnabel studied under Leschetizky's tutelage for seven years, between 1891 and 1897. Co-students of Leschetizky during that period included [[Ossip Gabrilowitsch]], [[Mark Hambourg]], and [[Ignaz Friedman]].

Initially, for his first year under Leschetizky, Schnabel was given rigorous preparatory technical tuition from [[Anna Yesipova]] (Leschetizky's second wife and a famous pianist in her own right) and also from Malwine Bree, who was Leschetizky's assistant.<ref name=cesar/>  From age ten, he participated in all of Leschetizky's classes.<ref name=mylifeandmusic/>

Following a failed initial approach to [[Anton Bruckner]], Schnabel studied music theory and composition under [[Eusebius Mandyczewski]]. Mandyczewski was an assistant to [[Johannes Brahms]], and through him Schnabel was introduced to Brahms' circle. He often was in the great composer's presence. The young Schnabel once heard Brahms play in a performance of his [[Piano Quartet No. 1 (Brahms)|first piano quartet]]; for all the missed notes, said Schnabel, it "was in the true grand manner."<ref name=mylifeandmusic/>

Schnabel made his official concert debut in 1897, at the [[Bösendorfer-Saal]] in Vienna. Later that same year, he gave a series of concerts in [[Budapest]], [[Prague]] and [[Brno]].<ref name=musiker/>