finished by the composer. Badura-Skoda often played and recorded on modern piano and he also collected and restored pianos dating from the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. In 1980s he started working on a series of recordings of a selection of Haydn's sonatas and the complete piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert—twenty-seven CDs—on about a dozen of his historical instruments. He died after a three-year battle with cancer on 25 September 2019. Honours and awards Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1976) (1978) Knight of the Legion of Honour (1993) Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1997) Gold Medal for Service to the City of Vienna (2007) Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (2006) Honoris causa doctorate from Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim (2006) Honoris causa doctorate from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2010) Honoris causa doctorate from Academy of Music in Kraków (2013) Recordings Paul Badura-Skoda. Mozart. Pianoforte Sonatas. Played on a 1790 Johann Schantz fortepiano. Label: Astree Naive. Paul Badura-Skoda. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Works for piano. Played on an Anton Walter 1790 fortepiano. Label: Gramola. Paul Badura-Skoda with Musica Florea. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Piano concertos K.271, K.414. Played on a Walter 1792 fortepiano replica by Paul McNulty. Label: Arcana. Paul Badura-Skoda. Franz Schubert. Fantaisie Pour le Piano-forte. Played on a Conrad Graf 1824 fortepiano. Label: Astree. Paul Badura-Skoda. Plays Claude Debussy. Recorded at Vienna (Austria), May 14 & 16, 1984, on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial made in 1923. Charles Mackerras (conductor), Paul Badura-Skoda, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Shostakovich. Symphony No.9; Scriabin, Piano Concerto; Dvořák, Symphonic Variations. Label: Pristine Audio. Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda (conductor). Rimsky-Korsakov. Piano Concerto. Label: Pristine Audio. References External links CDs of Badura-Skoda released by label GENUIN Interview with Paul Badura-Skoda by Bruce Duffie, March 7, 1989 Essence (2018) - a short film based on Paul Badura-Skoda's 1967 essay "Look to the Guiding Stars!" , WNCN-FM New York City, 26 March 1982 Austrian classical pianists Male classical pianists Austrian fortepianists Mozart scholars Musicians from Vienna École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des