The Art of Piano Playing
By: Heinrich Neuhaus
4.45
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This classic was written by a legendary piano teacher and former student of Leopold Godowsky who tr…
Want to Read"Mental tension is in inverse proportion to physical tension."-Heinrich Neuhaus, The Art of Piano Playing
"I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance."-Heinrich Neuhaus, The Art of Piano Playing
"Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze."-Heinrich Neuhaus, The Art of Piano Playing
"It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred."-Heinrich Neuhaus, The Art of Piano Playing
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20. The Art of Piano Playing
By: Heinrich Neuhaus
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Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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"I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to pl…"-Heinrich Neuhaus, The Art of Piano Playing
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