Many celebrated musicians were regular visitors to the Haebler home, including Claudio Arrau, Robert Casadesus and Bronisław Huberman.

[citation needed] It was Casadesus who recognised the child's talent as a pianist and predicted a great future for her.

[citation needed] On the outbreak of World War II the family moved to Salzburg where Haebler made her first public appearance at the age of eleven.

[2] She took up studies at the Mozarteum under Professor Heinz Scholz, graduating in 1949 with distinction for her playing of Mozart, and along the way developing a taste for music of the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Through the 1950s, Ingrid Haebler's repertoire ranged from Bach to Stravinsky and she toured extensively in Europe, North Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Japan.