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Fifth Avenue) into which he was able to bring many of the city’s greatest social and artistic luminaries. Hundreds of priceless ...
before 1900, by Artis Wodehouse. The recordings of pianists born before the turn of the century provide perhaps the most tangibl ...
1920 3:23 Ornstein 3 0 3 67 1892-2002 1916 3:31 Novaes 0 1 0 11 1895-1979 1921 4:07 Note: The numerals 1 represent a low level ...
Source: Lachmund pages 358 & 359. In the same letter Mansfeldt tells the story surrounding the first public performance whic ...
After my London visit I was obliged to return to Leipsic [Leipzig] to transact some business, and I decided to call on Liszt in ...
I can still recall the thrill of the joy which passed through me when Liszt spoke these words. They left no doubt in my mind. I ...
estimation, many regarding him as the greatest of all quartet-players. We were always quite at our ease in those lower rooms, bu ...
many musicians who came to Weimar to visit Liszt at that time – die goldene Zeit (the Golden Age), as it is still called at Weim ...
seeing appreciation, should have taken especial delight in playing his music forty-seven years ago. Liszt was very fond of it. ‘ ...
invited to the Altenburg. He played Harmonies du Soir, No. 2, and his own sonata. He was at his best and played divinely. June 9 ...
We had often witnessed his wonderful feats in sight-reading, and regarded him as infallible in that particular, but, notwithstan ...
sensation throughout musical Germany. I remember how utterly that Liszt circle in Weimar were astounded. This letter was at firs ...
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was a German composer, pianist and conductor of the romantic period. His output includes solo pian ...
study with Leonhard. By the time she was fifteen she was touring Germany. A successful concert in Frankfurt in 1867 was attended ...
Most modern metronomes are electronic, with a quartz crystal to maintain accuracy like those used in wristwatches. The simplest ...
entirely false impression of him in this respect has been generally circulated. According to that version, his playing was more ...
certain impatient vehemence, as in passionate speech – freed the truth of the musical expression from all rhythmic bonds. Althou ...
As gymnastic aids, he recommended the bending in and out of the wrist, the repeated wrist attack, the stretching of the fingers ...
In the notation of fingering, particularly the most personally characteristic fingering, Chopin was not sparing. Pianists owe hi ...
signature as its relative major. One way to assist in recognising the difference between a major and a minor scale is to think o ...
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