Author: Franz Mohr
Publisher: Ravens Ridge Books
ISBN: 9780801062964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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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:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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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: 0671638378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Surveys the careers and personalities of the great pianists from Clementi and Mozart to the present day.
Author: James Francis Cooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393013023
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 653
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Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.
Author: Edward Blickstein
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810884976
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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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: Carola Grindea
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Forty-eight interviews conducted during the 1980s and '90s, first published in the Piano journal.
Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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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: Stephen Hough
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721408
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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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.
Author: Gary Graffman
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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