Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Classical Pianists written by Richard Masters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential reference focuses on the lives, careers, and musical contributions of over 150 American pianists from early days of the nation until the present day. Richard Masters spotlights both modern and historical pianists—including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ pianists who either never had the opportunity to win widespread acclaim but were top notch performers or who achieved important careers against heavy odds but were soon forgotten after their deaths, such as Augusta Cottlow, George Copeland, and Natalie Hinderas. This volume also gives attention to important collaborative pianists—none of whom have ever appeared in any volume on classical pianists—and influential pedagogues, some of whom never had significant performing careers but produced important students. Each entry explores an individual pianist’s life and career—from relevant biographical details to impact on American musical culture—and includes a selected list and brief discussion of existing and available recordings, if any. Additionally, an introduction situates these pianists into historical trends. Overseen by a blue-ribbon editorial board, Encyclopedia of American Classical Pianists: 1800s to the Present provides a comprehensive view of the depth and breadth of American pianistic achievement and serves as the most up-to-date work for students, piano departments, music libraries, researchers, and interested pianophiles.
Download or read book Book of Music Wit and Wisdom View of American Pianist s Life and Music written by Mary Yokum and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artur Schnabel was an Austrian-American classical pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. His dazzling intellect, profound humor, and acute insights into music and musical life make his lectures as relevant today as they were at the time. Schnabel was an artist who reflected upon the value of music in a modern society like no other practicing musician, and who foresaw developments decades ago that are only now becoming fully apparent. Artur Schnabel was born in 1882, grew up in Vienna, and studied with Theodor Leschetizky. From 1898 to 1933 he lived in Berlin where his international career as a pianist began. Schnabel's residence from 1933 to 1938 was at Lake Como, Italy; he emigrated to the United States in 1939. Aside from his legendary recordings of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, and Brahms, Schnabel's legacy comprises several remarkable compositions of his own.
Download or read book The President s Pianist written by George Manos and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a warmly personal and evocative memoir, George Manos recounts the highlights of his long and varied career as classical pianist, conductor, composer, and teacher. Manos served as President Harry S. Truman's personal pianist; performed at famed classical music venues like the Bethlehem Bach Festival and the Tanglewood Music Festival; served as music director at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; founded and conducted the Killarney Bach Festival in Ireland; and taught at prestigious schools and universities in and around Washington. He performed with many of the leading musicians of the 20th century, including acclaimed singers like Todd Duncan, Elena Nikolaidi, and Katharine Hansel, and renowned composers and conductors like Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Leopold Stokowski, and Igor Stravinksy. Manos also played for some of the century's top political leaders: President Truman, his family, and inner circle, Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles and Princess Diana of England, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. This book will delight all who love music and who wish to learn more about the personal and musical side of President Truman and of many of the 20th century's greatest classical musicians.
Download or read book Speaking of Pianists written by Abram Chasins and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pianist, composer, music director of WOXR, contributor to the Saturday Review collects his reminiscences- and reactions stimulated by piano playing and piano music. So that his clavichord is well-tempered not only by his knowledge and feeling for its music, but also by his own association with many performers. He re-establishes Josef Hofmann as a great pianist and a greatly loved teacher; Rachmaninoff, the communicable and sumptuous melodist; Schnabel and Godowsky; the courtly Paderewski and the ebullient Rubinstein; Wanda Landowski and Backhaus, Gieseking and Serkin, Casadesus and Horowitz are all in this gallery of greats. He writes also of interpretation and teaching, of the ruthless stranglehold of concert management, of hi fidelity and its ""high fatality"" to the quality of recorded performances, and there is a substantial section of commentaries on particular works and composers- chiefly classical... Informed, but informally presented music appreciation which the general listener will enjoy- along with the contact with many concert pianists and the anecdotal asides (Kirkus Review)
Download or read book The Pianist s Dictionary written by Maurice Hinson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable compact reference guide is the perfect gift for any piano teacher, student, and performer.
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.
Download or read book The Art of the Piano written by David Dubal and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classical Pianists written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 244. Chapters: Classical pianist stubs, Classical pianists who played with one arm, Classical piano duos, Pupils of Frederic Chopin, Paul Wittgenstein, Francis Poulenc, Martha Argerich, Gerard Hengeveld, Pauline Viardot, Sviatoslav Richter, David Burge, List of classical piano duos, List of classical pianists, Cyril Smith, Harriet Cohen, Kathryn Stott, Janina Fialkowska, York Bowen, Claire Huangci, Leon Fleisher, Giorgi Latsabidze, Adolfo Fumagalli, Ferrante & Teicher, Jane Stirling, John Ogdon, Yaltah Menuhin, Ebony and Ivory, Robert Casadesus, David Deveau, Jeroen van Veen, Mark Hambourg, Nicolas Economou, Michel Camilo, Andras Schiff, Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky, Alice Sara Ott, Duo Caron, Rose and Ottilie Sutro, Frank Hutchens, David Oei, Alan Kogosowski, Pekinel sisters, Lance Dossor, Mungonzazal Janshindulam, Joel Ryce-Menuhin, Maria Kalergis, Vlastimil Lejsek, Ran Dank, Genova & Dimitrov, Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, Jose Iturbi, Justin McCarthy, Gary Graffman, Pawe Ch ci ski, Jean Wiener, Max Olding and Pamela Page, Margaret Bonds, Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, Gold and Fizdale, Dora Bright, Jeremy Filsell, Radu Lupu, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Worbey & Farrell, Karol Mikuli, Charles Wadsworth, Lindley Evans, Kate Loder, Mark Taimanov, Romola Costantino, Richard and John Contiguglia, Abram Chasins, Winifred MacBride, Eldar Nebolsin, Ronald Cavaye, Helen Huang, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Joseph Schalk, Otakar Hollmann, Charlotte de Rothschild, Thomas Tellefsen, Rawicz and Landauer, Paul Kim, Miirrha Alhambra, Paul van Katwijk, Francesco Nicolosi, Yonty Solomon, Rageh Daoud, Alexander Brailowsky, Vronsky & Babin, Josef Lhevinne, Alex Staropoli, Quynh Nguyen, Witold Ma cu y ski, Myra Hess, Rebecca Chambers, Filip Laz r, Garrick Ohlsson, Victor Bouchard, Eric Watson, Simon Trp eski, Genevieve Joy, Angel Sanzo, ...
Download or read book Notes of a Pianist written by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and published by New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 1964 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes of a Pianist chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). An important cultural and historical work, the book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life. Born to an English-Jewish father and a Haitian mother, Gottschalk is remembered as one of the great New Orleans musicians and composers, his music a combination of the classical tradition in which he was trained, and the New Orleans tradition into which he was born. His art form took him far outside the boundaries of Louisiana, however. While still a child, he studied piano in Paris and gave a concert at the Salle Pleyel, after which Frédéric Chopin is said to have remarked: "Give me your hand, my child; I predict that you will become the king of pianists." Gottschalk returned to the United States in 1853, and later lived in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama, and South America, during which time he kept-sometimes sporadically, sometimes daily--the notebooks that formed the basis of Notes of a Pianist. Published for the first time in 1881, the book continues to resonate with American cultural and musical life. Notes of a Pianist demonstrates Gottschalk's importance not only as a reporter of the musical life and tastes of Americans during the Civil War, but also as a forefather of Louisiana's rich musical culture.
Download or read book Celebrated Pianists Past and Present written by A. Ehrlich and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ehrlich's collection of pianist biographies is a definitive guide to the history of classical piano music. From Bach to Liszt to Rachmaninoff, this book provides detailed accounts of the lives and works of the most celebrated pianists in history. This book is a must-have for any lover of classical music and its performers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Catalogue of Recordings by Classical Pianists Pianists born to 1872 written by James Methuen-Campbell and published by Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire : Disco Epsom. This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notable Twentieth century Pianists written by John Gillespie and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pianists - their lives, performances, and recordings - are detailed in this text, the second of a two-volume set. Each biographical essay emphasises musical background and training, special influences on development, significant performances, and more. Performance is analysed and emphasis given to style and repertoire. For those pianists who recorded, there are selective discographies and reviews of outstanding recordings. The authors attended many performances and often supply a personal dimension to the discussions. This readable work, containing extensive documented coverage of 100 artists, should be appreciated by scholar, student and music buff alike.
Download or read book The Composer pianists written by Robert Rimm and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The recordings made by Marc-Andre Hamelin in recent years have cast new light on an extraordinary group of composers - Alkan, Busoni, Feinberg, Godowsky, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Sorabji - whose works heralded a Golden Age of virtuosic writing for the piano." "The Eight, as author Robert Rimm has termed these composer-pianists, have much in common, traits shared in our own age with Marc-Andre Hamelin, their foremost interpreter. For all their evident differences of age, nationality, and philosophy, they each created music of unprecedented ingenuity - often complex and of immense scale - that stretched the limits of the piano's capabilities. And all were genuine virtuosos with the technical resources to play these demanding works in public." "The volume includes rare photographs and concludes with an extensive bibliography, listings of the complete solo piano works of The Eight, and discographies of their solo piano recordings. In exploring the art of those who knew their instrument both as composers and as pianists, this book serves, in the words of pianist Stephen Hough, "both as a fascinating, exhaustive study of the riches of the past and as a stimulating inspiration for the future.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Notes of a Pianist written by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chopin and Beyond written by Byron Janis and published by Trade Paper Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the ""other world"" transformed his life and career By any measure, Byron Janis has had an extraordinary musical career. His discovery of two long-lost Chopin scores made headlines around the world, and he has been honored many times for his breathtaking performances of some of the most exciting and challenging works in the standard classical piano repertoire. As he retraces this remarkable journey in Chopin and Beyond, he shares something even more extraordinary: the other-worldly experiences that have shaped his life and music in surprising and profound ways. Shares milestones and memories from the life and musical career of one of the world's greatest pianists Includes lively anecdotes of famous classical musicians and other notable figures, including Vladimir Horowitz and Pablo Picasso Describes his long-secret but ultimately triumphant battle with arthritis Recounts the paranormal experiences that deepened his personal association with Chopin, effected near miraculous recoveries from serious accidents, and more Like the best music, Chopin and Beyond will open your mind to explore the wonder and possibility of a different world.
Download or read book William Kapell written by Tim Page and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journey of an American Pianist written by Grant Johannesen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by world famous concert pianist Grant Johannesen, who gives an account of his childhood and education in Utah, his early career and study in Europe and New York, and his worldwide performances. He also writes of his activity as a teacher and a judge in piano competitions, and his octogenarian thoughts for the benefit of younger generations of musicians.
