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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.
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.
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The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history's greatest pianists--from Mozart to the modern-day masters.
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- PublisherVictor Gollancz LTD
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0575004185
- ISBN 13 9780575004184
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Illustrated in b&w. Includes index. Front cover blurb: "By the music critic of the New York Times. 321 pianists, 107 illustrations". This copy is SIGNED in full & briefly INSCRIBED by Australian classical pianist Stephen McIntyre in blue ink on ffep: "For Dr. Thomson with thanks & good wishes. Stephen McIntyre, October '71". The University of Melbourne Conservatorium website notes: "Stephen McIntyre is known nationally and internationally as one of Australia's most eminent pianists. He is a sought-after concerto artist and chamber music player, and the chosen accompanist of many singers and instrumentalists. Born in Melbourne, Stephen McIntyre's teachers included Ada Freeman, Nadia Boulanger and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. From 1963 to 1975 he was based in Europe and gave concerts in the UK, France, Holland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Japan and India. In 1975 he took up a foundation teaching post at the Victorian College of the Arts/ Faculty of VCA and MCM in Melbourne, where he continued as Head of the Piano department until 1994. Stephen McIntyre has performed as concerto soloist with all the major ABC orchestras, appeared in concert with Russian violinists Valery Klimov, Viktoria Mullova, Nelli Shkolnikova and toured extensively with violist Wolfram Christ and the renowned Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma. Stephen McIntyre was a founding member of Australian Chamber Soloists, Principal Artistic Advisor for Musica Viva during 1995/96, and was the Director of the chamber music program of the Melbourne Festival from 1989 to 1999." The recipient of McIntyre's inscription is Australian Ambassador Lloyd D. Thomson, this copy from his library. Diplomat Lloyd Thomson (1919-2015) was the first Australian Ambassador to the Holy See (Vatican) (1973-74, 1980-83), & resident outside Italy at other Australian diplomatic posts, including the Netherlands (The Hague), Ireland (Dublin), the UN in Switzerland (Geneva), plus Head of Mission with the Department of Foreign Affairs, along with other diplomatic posts. Lloyd Thomson was also involved in the theatre as a playwright, actor & producer, notably co-writing the Australian musical The Sentimental Bloke (to the poetry of C.J. Dennis). First published May 1964, this copy is the Fourth Impression, August 1969. Printed in Great Britain. Bound in original blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, in publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Slight handling wear, price-clipped, trace remnants of tape ghostings to endpapers, large tear/chip (1.5 x 6cm) to lower rear panel of dustjacket, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 448pp. Scarce copy signed by Stephen McIntyre. SB-11. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 020561
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Book Description tapa dura. Condition: Bien. PROFESSIONS/OCCUPATIONS, Musicians, Pianists., Pianistes., Pianomuziek., Uitvoeringspraktijk., Pianists - Biography., Musicians - Pianists - Biography., Concert pianists - biography, Musicians - Biography., Biography, Illustrated Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1964. 23 cm. 448 pp., illus., index. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. D: N J N Newington Irving. Includes index. 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 Abbe -- 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 . Sobrecubierta deslucida. Firma del anterior propietario. ISBN: 0575004185 (=2911741=) LM246. Seller Inventory # 2911741
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