Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing (Dover Books on Music)
by Josef Lhevinne
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Author: Josef LhevinneBrand: Alfred Publishing
Foreword: Rosina Lhevinne
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1972-06-01
ISBN: 0486228207
Number of pages: 48
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: A Gem from a Giant
Summary: 5 Stars
In a way, I can understand the attitude of the reviewer below who prefers to play the piano with a waffle iron --- that is, who claims all notes sound the same no matter how the keys are struck. What a tragic attitude. But it is true, also, that in the latter half of the 20th Century, much of piano playing was reduced to the mere technicalities of hitting the right notes in the right places at the right time, the poetry of the music pretty much forgotten, displaced by waffle iron tachnique.
Lhevinne truly is one of the pianistic giants of the first half of the last century, among the giants of the late Russian romantic school. Schonberg (I think it was) wrote of him as among the pantheon of performers, along with his colleagues Levitzky, Rosenthal, Rubenstein and such youngsters as Horowitz and the forever young Earl Wild. Rachmaninov said Lhevinne had the greatest left hand technique of any pianist. His few recordings, even though not re-mastered, leave you breathless.
I am willing to enjoy the idiocyncratic few pages of such a giant. If you were into baseball, wouldn't you enjoy a few pages of Joe diMaggio? Of course, probably not, if you use a waffle iron instead of a bat.
Summary of Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing (Dover Books on Music)
Written at the height of his career, this little book by the "inward poet of the piano" is a clear statement of principles based on his lifelong experience in performance and teaching.
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