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Author:

Schonberg, Harold C.

Title:

The great pianists.

Publisher:

Simon and Schuster,

Copyright Date:

1963

Description:

448 p. ports., music. 24 cm.

Subject:

Pianists--Biography.
Pianistes--Biographies.
Pianomuziek.
Uitvoeringspraktijk.

Contents:

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 Leschetitkianers take over -- An archangel come down to earth -- The Little Gant, and other Liszt-made giants -- Some of the Leschititzky group -- The Chopinzee, the Buddha and others -- The ladies -- Composers at the keyboard -- Dr. Faustus 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.

LCCN:

63015367

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

DJPD353 -- Hampton Public Library (Hampton)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)