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Schubert had a close circle of friends and associates, including his teacher Antonio Salieri and the prominent singer Johann Mic ...

During the period when he was studying with Wieck, Schumann permanently injured his right hand. One view is that his right-hand ...

Schumann composed his ‘Etudes Symphoniques’ (‘Symphonic Studies’) for piano opus 13 in 1833-35. They consist of a set of variati ...

Liszt sent a copy of his Sonata to the Schumann house in Düsseldorf where it arrived on 25 May 1854. This was eleven months afte ...

educational studies for piano students. A daughter, Anna Johanne, who was born in Copenhagen in 1887, was taught by him and late ...

A piano score, or piano reduction, is a more or less literal arrangement for piano of a piece intended for many performing parts ...

SEATING The use of a wide, sturdy, firm, padded, rectangular piano stool is the most suitable seating arrangement at the piano. ...

Playing from the score of a piano work without having seen it before is called sight reading. Liszt sight read Brahms’s E flat m ...

23 to Siloti. His pupils included Mark Blitzstein, Alexander Goldenweiser, Ilmari Hannikainen, Constantine Igumnov, Alexander Ke ...

Consecutive two-note slurrings, with the first note of each subsequent slur repeating the previous note, do not involve any deta ...

was more common for girls than boys and it was thought that an ability to play the piano made girls more marriageable. Women who ...

Depression of the 1930’s piano sales dropped sharply and many manufacturers went out of business. Another blow to the piano was ...

Two-movement layouts also occurred and Haydn used these as late as the 1790s. There was also the possibility in the early classi ...

In music theory, ‘sonata cycle’ refers to the layout of a multi-movement work where the movements are recognisably in the forms ...

piano concerto only very rarely has four movements whereas a piano sonata usually has either three or four movements. The above ...

The terms sonata form, sonata-allegro and first-movement form all describe the same process. Sonata form became almost standard ...

Codetta The purpose of this is to bring the exposition section to a close with a perfect cadence in the same key as the second g ...

major where the movement is in C minor as in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 in C minor opus 67 and his C minor piano concerto. Key h ...

The exposition need not be limited to key areas. Schubert composed sonata forms with three or more key areas. The first movement ...

The classical era established the norms of structuring first movements and the standard layouts of multi-movement works. There w ...