After the seizure of power by the Nazis, Backhaus personally met Adolf Hitler, in May 1933 at the very latest, while accompanying him on a flight to Munich.
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After several recordings of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven with the Gürzenich for a French subscription collection in the mid-1950s, he made no studio recordings for nearly two decades with the exception of an appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca Records, accompanying Wilhelm Backhaus in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto (his only recording with that orchestra).