The great pianists / Harold C. Schonberg.
Schonberg, Harold C.
1987
ML397 .S3 1987 (Mapit)
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Title
The great pianists / Harold C. Schonberg.
Author
Schonberg, Harold C.
Edition
Rev. and updated.
ISBN
0671638378 (pbk.)
9780671638375 (pbk.)
0671642006
9780671642006
Publication Details
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1987.
Language
English
Description
525 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Call Number
ML397 .S3 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification
786.1/092/2 B
Summary
From Mozart's fabulous legato that "flowed like oil" to Beethoven's oceanlike surge to Chopin's earsplitting dissonances, from Clara Schumann's touch "sharp as a pencil sketch" to Rubinstein's volcanic and sensual playing to Rachmaninoff's exquisitely shaped phrases, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalilties, methods, and technical peculiarities of history's greatest pianists -- from Mozart to the modern-day masters. Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author Harold C. Schonberg presents a vivid account of each artist's performances, styles, and even their personal lives and quirky characteristics -- Mozart's intense competition with Clementi; the dandyism of Chopin; Liszt's magnetic effect on women (when he played, ladies flung their jewels on stage); Gottschalk's persistent nailbiting, which left the keys covered with blood; and Landowska's dramatic entrances, her eyes cast to the heavens, in "communion" with Bach. This new edition has been completely revised and updated to include expanded material on Horowitz, Cliburn, and others, and four new chapters detailing the playing and careers of such modern pianists as de Larrocha, Ashkenazy, Gilels, Gould, Brendel, Bolet, Gutierrez, Watts, and many others. - Back cover.
The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history's greatest pianists.
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"A Fireside book."
Includes index.
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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 Leschetizkianers take over
An archangel come down to earth
The Little Giant, and other Liszt-made giants
Some of the Leschetizky group
The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and others
The ladies
Composers at the keyboard
Dr. Faust 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.

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