The Great Pianists

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 : 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 : 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 : Adele Marcus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Pianists Speak with Adele Marcus written by Adele Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Abram Chasins
Publisher : New York : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Pianists ... written by Abram Chasins and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1957 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald R. Gerig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883312124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Pianists and Their Technique written by Reginald R. Gerig and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes summaries and excerpts from the works of C.P.E. Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Hummel and Debussy.

Author : Gene Rizzo
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634074165
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time written by Gene Rizzo and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handy resource for jazz listeners and hardcore fans. Spanning players from eighty years of history, this bold book steps forward and claims who are the greatest. Compiled from an extensive survey conducted with the best jazz minds in the education, publishing and entertainment worlds, noted jazz journalist Gene Rizzo summarized the chosen and presents a concise bio on the essence of these jazz giants. Choices were made on the basis of chops, originality, creativity, and degree of influence. This book will either confirm some readers' opinions or open debate with others, but ultimately the book provides an impressive summary of the greatest jazz piano players of all time. A photo accompanies each listing * Landmark recordings are listed * Extra lists include the next twenty to be selected, the top women players and an alphabetical list of all the other players considered

Author : Richard P. Anderson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810882051
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pianist's Craft written by Richard P. Anderson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed specifically for piano. In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 19 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard piano repertoire. This collection ranges in subject matter from Inge Rosar's meditation on playing Bach on the modern keyboard to Gary Amato's assessment of Haydn's sonatas, from Christie Skousen's review of tone production in Chopin to GwenolynMok's foray into recreating Ravel's works on an Erard piano, the same used by Ravel himself. Readers will find essays as well on Mozart's piano compositions, Beethoven's sonatas, the influence of Schubert's lieder on his piano works, and works by Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bart k, Gershwin, and Crumb. The contributors--all recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions as performing artists, teachers, recording artists, and clinicians--write thoughtfully about the composers whose work they have studied and played for years. Each author addresses issues unique to the individual composer they have chosen to explore, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and genre. Valuable insight is provided into teaching, performing, and preparing these great works. In The Pianist's Craft these great artists and teachers answer questions for readers that are otherwise only addressed in conferences, master classes, and private lessons. In this collection of essays, key points of information and instruction are offered with over 200 musical examples included as illustration. The Pianist's Craft is intended for teachers and students of the intermediate and advanced levels of piano, instructors and performers at the university level, and those who love piano and piano music generally.

Author : Mark Mitchell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253337573
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtuosi written by Mark Mitchell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtuosi A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists Mark Mitchell A bravura performance "Vigorous, opinionated, and always entertaining, here is a personal essayist of great charm and sincerity. Mitchell's erudition--his collection of odd and illuminating bits of knowledge--is always a delight and adds a sauce piquanteto the whole dish " --Edmund White "...a literary work of real lan, vibrancy, and grace--the very qualities that in his view define the virtuoso. Mr. Mitchell explores] the traditional linking of musical and sexual virtuosity, the ethical implications of the original instruments' movement, the near deification of Mozart in Anglo-Saxon culture, and, in a particularly witty section, the relationship of the virtuoso to his stool. Throughout, Mr. Mitchell's prose is humorous, intimate, and unapologeticaly polemical." --Cynthia Ozick The artistic merit of performers with superior technique has long been almost ipso facto denied. At last, Mark Mitchell launches a counterattack. In essays crackling with pianistic lore, Mitchell takes on topics such as encores, prodigies, competitions, virtuosi in film and literature, and the erotics of musical performance. Liszt, Horowitz, and Argerich share these pages with the eccentric Pachmann, Ervin Nyiregyh ("the skid-row pianist"), and Liberace. The illustrations include rare portraits of long-forgotten girl prodigies, historic concert programs, and stills from a lost 1927 film on Beethoven. Punctuating this celebration of personal voice are vignettes, running from the beginnings of the author's obsession with the piano to the particularities of concert-going in Italy (where he now lives). Mark Mitchell's piano studies led to a friendship with Vladimir Horowitz and other pianistic luminaries. With David Leavitt he co-authored Italian Pleasures and co-edited Pages Passed from Hand to Hand. He also edited The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing.