 He had a wide repertoire that also included works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and the complete works for piano and orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and attended the Stuttgart Academy of Music.Later he was a student of Walter Gieseking in his Saarbrücken master-classes.