Your favorite book about pianism

[bernadette60614]

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!

[outin]

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

[8_octaves]

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!