"... fluently written and often humorous... " ―Notes
"... should be required reading for performers and teachers." ―The Eighteenth Century
Konrad Wolff characterizes in detail the personal musical language of several great masters of the piano, pursuing different lines of investigation to discover each composer’s essential traits. He brings the accumulated wisdom of his long career as a pianist and teacher to this delineation of compositional styles. Both intellect and musicality contribute to his cogent observations, and his literary style is as eloquent as the music he describes.

Masters of the Keyboard, Enlarged Edition: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms (Midland Book)

Arts & Photography

Wolff, Konrad

Music

Indiana University Press

This book is the kind of book that you can curl up with when working on music by a certain composer or teaching your students pieces by a certain composer.     This book contains such deeply-thought-out conclusions by Konrad Wolff about the music of these five great composers:  Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.     You'll find information to use in your own teaching and performing, like what makes Haydn's music different from that of Mozart.     I bought this book because it held concepts that made me think about what were the most interesting things to discuss at a class, and that sent me off looking for new information to create a very interesting class with new material and not just the same old repetitious and dry information presented in books that are filled with lots of facts but no surprises or interesting comparisons.

Masters of the keyboard: Individual style elements in the piano music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert

"... fluently written and often humorous... " ―Notes"... should be required reading for performers and teachers." ―The Eighteenth CenturyKonrad Wolff characterizes in detail the personal musical language of several great masters of the piano, pursuing different lines of investigation to discover each composer’s essential traits. He brings the accumulated wisdom of his long career as a pianist and teacher to this delineation of compositional styles. Both intellect and musicality contribute to his cogent observations, and his literary style is as eloquent as the music he describes.

Masters of the Keyboard: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms

Indiana Univ. Pr

In a testimonial to Konrad Wolff, Schnabel himself expressed his admiration for the author and this book: “Konrad Wolff . . . is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theorist, a learned historian, an outstanding teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer. . . . [His book] is a comprehensive elucidation of a complex and subtle problem. Artur Schnabel’s reputation as a pianist and teacher has grown steadily, and his innovative approach to the pianist’s art has attracted increasing interest. This book―originally prepared while its author was studying with Schnabel, and supervised by the master himself―is unique for two reasons: it is the only detailed treatment of Schnabel’s “system” as such, and it is the first general survey describing the range of a pianist’s interpretive concerns to appear in this century. Formerly titled The Teaching of Artur Schnabel, this second edition includes a new preface by Alfred Brendel.

Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music

W.W.Norton&Company

Schnabel's interpretation of piano music

W.W.Norton

Gesammelte Schriften Über Musik Und Musiker, Volume 2 (German Edition)

Schumann, Robert

Biographies & Memoirs

Nabu Press

Gesammelte Schriften Über Musik Und Musiker, Volume 1 (German Edition)

Rosenfeld, Paul

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