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Topic: Your favorite book about pianism  (Read 1117 times)

Offline bernadette60614

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Your favorite book about pianism
on: April 10, 2015, 12:45:34 AM
Not a book of scores, but your favorite book about piano...be it technique, practice, the history thereof, a noted composer of piano music or a pianist.

I'm building my library of books about piano and I'd love to explore some more books.

Thanks, all!

Offline outin

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Re: Your favorite book about pianism
Reply #1 on: April 10, 2015, 04:10:18 AM
These are not all about piano but keyboards in general.

This is a classic:
Kirkpatrick, R.: Domenico Scarlatti

And a later study:
Sutcliffe: The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti

The Routledge series on piano and keyboard music:
Keyboard Music Before 17000
18th Century Keyboard music
19th Century Piano  Music

The Cambirdge Companion to Chopin, ed. Jim Samson
Eigeldinger: Chopin pianist and teacher

William S. Newman: The Pianist's Problems (a good little book that I found helpful at some time)

Charles Rosen: Piano Notes (entertaining little book written from a pianists's point of view)

Chaffin, Imreh, Crawford: Practicing Perfection (a scientific study, but very enlightening and entertaining)

R.J. Stove: Cesar Franck - His Life and Times (maybe just for those who have seen the light :)

And last but not least, this is in frequent use:
Jane Magrath: The PInaists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature

Offline 8_octaves

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Re: Your favorite book about pianism
Reply #2 on: April 10, 2015, 04:59:25 AM
Hi,

S. Frederick Starr: Bamboula! : The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Notes of a pianist (there should be a pdf of the English version edited by his sister Clara out there. )

Harriette Brower: Piano Mastery (there should be some pdf of the OLD editions out there...)

Marta Milinowski: Teresa Carreño - By the Grace of God ( there should be a pdf out there )

Frederick Niecks: Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician ( there should be pdfs of the OLD editions ( 2 volumes ) out there).

These 3 are in German, don't know if there are English versions, too:

August Göllerich: Franz Liszt (there should be a pdf out there of the old Marquardt & Co- Edition, Berlin. ).

Harenberg Klaviermusikführer, ISBN 3-611-00679-3

Stegemann, Michael: Glenn Gould: Leben und Werk

Cordially, 8_octaves!
"Never be afraid to play before an artist.
The artist listens for that which is well done,
the person who knows nothing listens for the faults." (T. Carreño, quoting her 2nd teacher, Gottschalk.)
 

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