dohnanyi exercises

[liszmaninopin]

Does anybody here have any experiences with the Dohnanyi exercises?

[Motrax]

There was another topic about this. I've been doing the excercises for about a week, and they are phenominally helpful. I was surprised at how much difficulty I had with the easiest of excercises in there, but now I play them much better, and I think I'm playing my other pieces more confidently and accurately too.

It definitely strengthens your fingers, if nothing else.

[liszmaninopin]

That's interesting.  What are they like musically?  I just ordered the score from sheetmusicplus.

[Motrax]

They have nothing to offer, musically. The excercises are strictly excercises, and Dohnanyi wrote a forward for the book explaining his intent.

The excercises are actually pretty awful-sounding, for the most part. But if you grit your teeth and concentrate solely on the technical aspects of the excercises then you'll get quite a lot out of it. I've been playing 13 years now, and I still feel like I have a lot to learn from Dohnanyi.

[Antnee]

I started a thread on this a while back.

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=perf;action=display;num=1083972817;start=3

I think you will be very pleased with them. They are very useful. Here is a page of one of the exercises I have completed and mastered. It helped me alot with my hand and finger strength.


https://download.35mb.com/tonykid1324/scan.jpg

[aki]

Where can you buy them? I want to try them, since I'm getting so bored with Pishna and Hanon.

[schmetterling]

I ordered exerciseds by Cortot, but they delibered Dohnanyi instead. They really do sound bad, but I guess I'll give them a go now.

[Antnee]

Yes they have no musical value At all. But they are not intended to. In my opinion they are much more useful that Hannon (then again almost anything is).