{"id":820,"date":"2009-01-09T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2022-02-15T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T08:39:13","slug":"piano-technique-the-leschetizky-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/site-news\/piano-technique-the-leschetizky-method-820\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano Technique &#8211; the Leschetizky Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/resources\/e-books.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/prentenercover2.jpg\" alt=\"Piano Technique Book\" width=\"200\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downloadable e-book on piano technique<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This legendary manual in both English and German documents principles and techniques of the legendary piano teacher Theodor Leschetizky, who taught Paderewski, Schnabel and many other great pianists.<\/p>\n<p>The book devided into two parts begins with explanations of hand and finger positions and proceeds to discussions of the touch; diatonic and chromatic scales; trills, chords and arpeggios, double notes, thirds, sixths and octaves.<br \/>\nThe second part focuses mainly on musical performance, offering advice on playing Bach and Handel, rhythm, pedaling, melody, practice techniques and musical culture.<\/p>\n<p>This book is now available as a downloadable e-book within our Gold membership from the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/resources\/e-books.php\">E-books<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Polish pianist, teacher and composer Theodor Leschetizky was from an early age recognized as a prodigy, and after studying in Vienna with Carl Czerny and Simon Sechter he became a teacher at fourteen. 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