Mastering Chopin's Opus 25
Author: Jason Jinki Kwak
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
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Mastering the Chopin Etudes and Other Essays
Author: Abby Whiteside
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA number of these studies deal with various aspects of the physical coordination the pianist must achieve in order to be able to use his full potential for virtuosity and musical continuity. They were written by a pianist who hadsearched for more effective teaching tools and had developed a uniq meaningful analysis of the nature of this coordination.
Technical Exercises (Complete)
Author: Franz Liszt
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 2005-05-03
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1457443317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition is comprised of 86 different technical exercises composed by Liszt during 1868 to 1880. Liszt intended these highly challenging exercises to build greater performance skills in virtuoso pianists. The complete series consists of twelve volumes, each one dealing with a different pianistic problem. This edition has been compiled from the original set to present the exercises in a reasonable length without harming the essence and effectiveness of the original work.
The Cambridge Companion to Chopin
Author: Jim Samson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-12-08
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1139824996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.
Ignaz Friedman
Author: Allan Evans
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009-06-29
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0253003385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAllan Evans's groundbreaking biography of Ignaz Friedman gives the reader the behind and the between of the life and career of this extraordinary pianist. Friedman's repertory emphasized the major works of Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms, but he was perhaps best known for his interpretation of the Chopin mazurkas, which by all accounts he played with the same rhythmic nuance as their composer. Evans examines Friedman's life as a cultured Jewish musician from Poland; his studies in Leipzig and Vienna; his marriage to Manya Schidlowsky -- a Russian countess and relative of Tolstoy; and his performing career, teaching, and retirement in Australia.
Chopin's Letters
Author: Frederic Chopin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-06-03
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0486319520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly 300 letters reveal Chopin as both man and artist and illuminate his fascinating world — Europe of the 1830s and 1840s. "Delightful gossip . . . merry rather than malicious . . . engagingly witty." — Books. Preface. Index.
Mastering Piano Technique
Author: Seymour Fink
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780931340468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Amadeus). This holistic approach to the keyboard, based on a sound understanding of the relationship between physical function and musical purpose, is an invaluable resource for pianists and teachers. Professor Fink explains his ideas and demonstrates his innovative developmental exercises that set the pianist free to express the most profound musical ideas. HARDCOVER.
Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music
Author: Mark Mitchell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-11-03
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0253111668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a pianist, Rosenthal was unparalleled: his legato touch came from Chopin through his pupil Mikuli; his awareness of composition was developed by Liszt; his Brahms interpretation shaped by the composer himself; and his ingeniously crafted piano-paraphrases memorialized his friendship with Johann Strauss II. Yet Rosenthal's pianistic abilities were married to a rare intellectual erudition -- a knowledge of literature, history, philology, science, philosophy, and society that few pianists have ever matched, let alone surpassed. In these striking pieces, we see every facet of Rosenthal: memoirist, social critic, pedagogue, and virtuoso. He could write with gravity and pathos, yet his famous and sometimes devastating wit is legendary. This volume combines Rosenthal's writings with critical assessments of the pianist by such contemporaries as Eduard Hanslick, Edward Prime-Stevenson, and Hugo Wolf. It is rounded out with an illuminating preface by Charles Rosen, perhaps Rosenthal's most renowned pupil; a discography and concertography; and a CD featuring never-before-released Rosenthal recordings.
Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature
Author: Jane Magrath
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9781457438974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students and performers for evaluating and selecting piano solo literature. Concise and thoroughly researched, thousands of works, from the Baroque through the Contemporary periods, have been graded and evaluated in detail. Includes an alphabetical list of composers, explanations of works and much more.
