An edition of The great pianists (1962)

The great pianists

from Mozart to the present

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An edition of The great pianists (1962)

The great pianists

from Mozart to the present

Rev. and updated
  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
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From Mozart's fabulous legato that "flowed like oil" to Beethoven's oceanlike surge, from Clara Schumann's touch "sharp as a pencil sketch" to Rubinstein's volcanic and sensual playing, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history's greatest pianists. Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author Harold C. Schonberg presents vivid accounts of the artists' performances, styles, and even their personal lives and quirky characteristics -- such as Mozart's intense competition with Clementi, Lizst's magnetic effect on women (when he played, ladies flung their jewels on stage), and Gottschalk's persistent nailbiting, which left the keys covered with blood. Including profiles of Horowitz and Van Cliburn, among others, and chapters detailing the playing and careers of such modern pianists as de Larrocha, Ashkenazy, Gilels, Gould, Brendel, Bolet, Gutierrez, and Watts, The Great Pianists is a comprehensive and fascinating look at legendary performers past and present. - Back cover.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
525

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Table of Contents

In the beginning
It should flow like oil
Thirds, sixths and octaves
In profile and on the road
String-snapper, hands on high
In the interim
From Ireland to Bohemia
Romanticism and its rules
Tubercular, romantic, poetic
Thunder, lightning, mesmerism, sex
Old arpeggio, other salonists, and the American penetration
More salonists, and the revolutionary in octaves
Two sensitive ones
The first American
The virtuous
Tyrant and intellectual
The children of the abbé
Thunder from the East
French neatness, precision, elegance
The Lisztianers and Leschetitzkianers take over
An archangel come down to earth
The little giant, and other Liszt-made giants
Some of the Leschetitzky group
The Chopinzee, the Buddha and others
The ladies
Composers at the keyboard
Dr. Faustus at the keyboard
Perfection plus
The Puritan
Some headliners of the day
New philosophies, new styles
The man who invented Beethoven
Romanticism still burns
Twentieth-century schools
After the thaw
Bach à la mode
Two cult figures
Made in America

Edition Notes

Subtitle from cover.
"A Fireside book" - Title page verso.
Includes index.
This revised and updated edition originally published in hardcover in 1987.

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New York
Copyright Date
1987

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
786.1/092/2, B
Library of Congress
ML397 .S3 1987, ML397.S3 1987

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
525 p.
Number of pages
525
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2372350M
Internet Archive
greatpianists000scho
ISBN 10
0671638378
ISBN 13
9780671638375
LCCN
87000341
OCLC/WorldCat
15196909
Library Thing
136909
Goodreads
4817192
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