Famous Pianists and Their Technique, New Edition [Paperback]

Famous Pianists and Their Technique has been a standard in the field since its first publication in 1974. This widely used and acclaimed history of piano technical thought includes insights into the techniques of masters such as C.P.E. Bach, Bart?k, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Clementi, Czerny, Debussy, Godowsky, Horowitz, Levinskaya, Leschetizky, the Lhevinnes, Liszt, Mozart, Prokofiev, Ravel, Rubinstein, and Schubert, among others.

Called the bible of piano technique by Maurice Hinson, this book is a comprehensive resource for the student, teacher, and professional pianist who seek to discover the secrets of how the immortal professional pianists developed and polished their mechanical and musical technique. This expanded edition contains a foreword by Alan Walker, a new preface, and multiple new appendices.

Reginald R. Gerig is Professor of Piano Emeritus at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where he taught from 1952 to 1987, having served as Chair of the Piano Department for fourteen of those years. He was previously also on faculty at the Eastman School of Music and received several degrees from The Juilliard School of Music.

Foreword by Alan Walker
Preface and Acknowledgments

1. The Meaning of Technique
2. The Early Clavier Methods
3. The Beginnings of the Piano
4. Mozart and the Early Piano Technique
5. Hummel: The Culmination of the Viennese Era
6. The Dynamic Beethoven Technique
7. Czerny: Technique Personified
8. The Early Methodology
9. The Lyricism of Chopin
10. Liszt and Virtuoso Technique
11. The Schumann Circle
12. The Beginnings of Modern Technical Methods
13. The Leschetizky Influence
14. Russian Nationalism
15. The French School
16. BreithlÓ#