Peter Feuchtwanger excercises

[iumonito]

Do you have them?  Do you know how to get them?

[fnork]

I've heard some about this too - a friend of mine went to London and studied for him for a year perhaps. He told me that Feuchwanger made stretching excercises which actually improved his stretch quite a lot (he reaches an 11th with no trouble now), but I don't know what sort of excercises that was. I could ask him... But I do know that he did a sort of "finger-control" excercise which was something like this: put your hand on the piano, completely relaxed, and let the other hand "tap" one of the fingers, just once, so that you get a sort of sforzando, or forte. Then, try to focus completely on just that finger and try to make it sound just as when you were tapping with the other hand - BUT without moving the rest of the hand or fingers, and staying competely relaxed. It's alright to focus on doing it for a while, but the motion of the finger should be as fast as possible. It's hard to explain here, would be easier to show you, but I hope you get the idea... I haven't done that excercise too much myself, but I know that Glenn Gould talked about this too, incorporating this excercise to his practicing.

[Kassaa]

My teacher has his book with excercises, while the excercises are interesting Feuchtwanger himself seems to be a bit of a cock, including millions of pictures of himself with famous pianists. The excercises focus on a completely loose wrist, and they really helped me in achieving a looser wrist. I have no idea however where you can buy the book .

[thorn]

my teacher studied with him and makes me do them

i have a handwritten copy of them by my teacher *cough*i could scan them in if you want *cough*

but they are really really useful and help so much

[fnork]

would be great if you could do a scan thorn!

[jinfiesto]

You should get a hold of Alicia delarrocha's exercises if you can find them. I don't think they were ever submitted for publication anywhere though. The only copies you'll find are hand written. I have a friend who has them.... I have no idea how she got them... They're all written notes.

[thorn]

I have uploaded them into the sheet music request thread.

[pailo]

Hi thorn!
Could you give some hints on how to practice this exercices?
For example:
       N.1. Only on white keys? How many times?

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