Author: Franz Mohr
Publisher: Ravens Ridge Books
ISBN: 9780801062964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Memoirs of the piano technician who tuned pianos for many great performers, including Vladimir Horowitz, Van Cliburn, Artur Rubenstein, Glen Gould, and others.
My Life with the Great Pianists
Author: Franz Mohr
Publisher: Ravens Ridge Books
ISBN: 9780801062964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Memoirs of the piano technician who tuned pianos for many great performers, including Vladimir Horowitz, Van Cliburn, Artur Rubenstein, Glen Gould, and others.
Publisher: Ravens Ridge Books
ISBN: 9780801062964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Memoirs of the piano technician who tuned pianos for many great performers, including Vladimir Horowitz, Van Cliburn, Artur Rubenstein, Glen Gould, and others.
My Life with the Great Pianists
Author: Franz Mohr
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Mohr's humor and personal perspective on the lives of Rubinstein, Horowitz, and other artists mix music lore with quiet faith.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Mohr's humor and personal perspective on the lives of Rubinstein, Horowitz, and other artists mix music lore with quiet faith.
Great Pianists
Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671638378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Surveys the careers and personalities of the great pianists from Clementi and Mozart to the present day.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671638378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Surveys the careers and personalities of the great pianists from Clementi and Mozart to the present day.
Great Pianists Speak with Adele Marcus
Author: Adele Marcus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Author: Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310208068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310208068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Chopin's Prophet
Author: Edward Blickstein
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810884976
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810884976
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
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.
Great Pianists on Piano Playing
Author: James Francis Cooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Horowitz
Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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.
Great Pianists and Pedagogues
Author: Carola Grindea
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Forty-eight interviews conducted during the 1980s and '90s, first published in the Piano journal.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Forty-eight interviews conducted during the 1980s and '90s, first published in the Piano journal.
The Lives of the Great Composers
Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393013023
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393013023
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.