Russian Piano Music

Author : Christopher J. Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Piano School written by Christopher J. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insight into the views on technique and interpretation of several of the twentieth century's greatest Russian teachers and performers.

Author : Andor Pinter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486490750
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Piano Music written by Andor Pinter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 44 pieces spotlights the works of important Russian composers who popularized their native folk music. Contributors include Michael Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolas Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and others.

Author : Wolf Wondratschek
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720274
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Portrait with Russian Piano written by Wolf Wondratschek and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek “is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic—his texts are imbued with a wonderful, reckless nonchalance.”* Now, he tells a story of a man looking back on his life in an honest Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Vienna is an uncanny, magical, and sometimes brutally alienating city. The past lives on in the cafes where lost souls come to kill time and hash over the bygone glories of the twentieth century—or maybe just a recent love affair. Here, in one of these cafes, an anonymous narrator meets a strange character, “like someone out of a novel”: a decrepit old Russian named Suvorin. A Soviet pianist of international renown, Suvorin committed career suicide when he developed a violent distaste for the sound of applause. This eccentric gentleman—sometimes charming, sometimes sulky, sometimes disconcertingly frank—knows the end of his life is approaching, and allows himself to be convinced to tell his life story. Over a series of coffee dates, punctuated by confessions, anecdotes, and rages—and by the narrator’s schemes to keep his quarry talking—a strained friendship develops between the two men, and it soon becomes difficult to tell who is more dependent on whom. Rhapsodic and melancholic, with shades of Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, Hans Keilson, and Thomas Bernhard, Wolf Wondratschek's Self-Portrait with Russian Piano is a literary sonata circling the eternal question of whether beauty, music, and passion are worth the sacrifices some people are compelled to make for them. “A romantic in a madhouse. To let Wondratschek’s voice be drowned in the babble of today’s literature would be a colossal mistake.” —*Patrick Süskind, international bestselling author of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Author : Constantin von Sternberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Russian piano music written by Constantin von Sternberg and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olga Conus
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495089339
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Piano Technique - The Russian Method written by Olga Conus and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Instruction). Fundamentals of Piano Technique was developed by Leon Conus (1871-1944) and Olga Conus (1890-1976) during many decades of teaching and performing, and through association with the most prominent Russian musicians of the time including Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Medtner. The exercises in this method are concise and efficient, focusing on the elements of good playing: control, touch, nuance, and musicianship. This book can be used by students at all levels of development, and with all shapes and sizes of hands. The preparatory exercises allow students to begin using the book within their first year of lessons. A systematic approach allows the hands to develop gradually, avoiding dangerous tension or muscle damage. Topics include: preparatory exercises; extension exercises; five-finger exercises; flexibility of the thumb; trill exercises; scales & arpeggios; wrist development; double notes; and more.

Author : Constantin von Sternberg
Publisher : Oliver Ditson Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Russian Piano Music written by Constantin von Sternberg and published by Oliver Ditson Company. This book was released on 1915 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophy Roberts
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802149308
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Pianos of Siberia written by Sophy Roberts and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux

Author : Louis Oesterle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Album of Russian piano music written by Louis Oesterle and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Oesterle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Album of Russian piano music: Aleneff, E. Op.7, no.1: Valse impromptu. Arensky, A. Op.28, no.1: Logaoedics; Op.34, no.2: Coucou written by Louis Oesterle and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Ponce
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663629X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tyranny of Tradition in Piano Teaching written by Walter Ponce and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strict traditions of piano teaching have remained entrenched for generations. The dominant influence of Muzio Clementi (1752-1832), the first composer-pedagogue of the instrument, brought about an explosion of autocratic instruction and bizarre teaching systems, exemplified in the mind-numbing drills of Hanon's "The Virtuoso Pianist." These practices--considered absurd or abusive by many--persist today at all levels of piano education. This book critically examines two centuries of teaching methods and encourages instructors to do away with traditions that disconnect mental and creative skills.