My Life With The Great Pianists

Author : Franz Mohr
Publisher : Ravens Ridge Books
ISBN 13 : 9780801062964
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life with the Great Pianists written by Franz Mohr and published by Ravens Ridge Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the piano technician who tuned pianos for many great performers, including Vladimir Horowitz, Van Cliburn, Artur Rubenstein, Glen Gould, and others.

Author : Franz Mohr
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life with the Great Pianists written by Franz Mohr and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohr's humor and personal perspective on the lives of Rubinstein, Horowitz, and other artists mix music lore with quiet faith.

Author : Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671638378
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Pianists written by Harold C. Schonberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the careers and personalities of the great pianists from Clementi and Mozart to the present day.

Author : Carola Grindea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Pianists and Pedagogues written by Carola Grindea and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-eight interviews conducted during the 1980s and '90s, first published in the Piano journal.

Author : Edward Blickstein
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810884976
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chopin's Prophet written by Edward Blickstein and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history’s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin’s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements—be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience—within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over performing. But this wunderkind, whose admirers included Franz Liszt and music critic James Gibbons Huneker (who cheekily nicknamed Pachmann the “Chopinzee”), would by the turn of the century find his antics on the concert stage scorned by critics and out of fashion with listeners, burying his pianistic legacy. In Chopin’s Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann, the first biography ever of this remarkable figure, Edward Blickstein and Gregor Benko explore the private and public lives of this master pianist, surveying his achievements within the context of contemporary critical opinion and preserving his legacy as one of the last great Romantic pianists of his time. Chopin’s Prophet paints a colorful portrait of classical piano performance and celebrity at the turn of the 20th century while also documenting Pachmann’s attraction to men, which ultimately ended his marriage but was overlooked by his audiences. As the authors illustrate, Pachmann lived in a radically different world of music making, one in which eccentric personality and behavior fit into a much more flexible, and sometimes mysterious, musical community, one where standards were set not by certified experts with degrees but by the musicians themselves. Detailing the evolution of concert piano playing style from the era of Chopin until World War I, Chopin’s Prophet tells the fantastic and true story of an artist of and after his time.

Author : James Francis Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing written by James Francis Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher : New York : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horowitz written by Harold C. Schonberg and published by New York : Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Great Pianists offers a definitive biography of piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz, complete with never-before-published quotes from Horowitz himself. A superb and wonderfully readable musical assessment of Horowitz's explosive talent and his unique contribution to the cultural life of the 20th century. Photographs. Discography.

Author : Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393013023
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Great Composers written by Harold C. Schonberg and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.

Author : Len Lyons
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306803437
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Jazz Pianists written by Len Lyons and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1989-03-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and concluding with interviews that present twenty-seven pianists in their own words, is both wonderfully anecdotal and a serious piece of jazz history. Lyons has assembled a giant concert of piano voices—Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Randy Weston, Cecil Taylor, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Chick Corea, and many others. The pianists are candid, intense, and always opinionated. Yet their responses are infused with a keen appreciation for fellow musicians, their contemporaries, and those who came before—Walter, Tatum, Ellington. For pianists everywhere, whatever their individual style, this book will speak to and for you as it expresses the thoughts of its many great artists.

Author : Stephen Hough
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721408
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rough Ideas written by Stephen Hough and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.