Menahem Pressler : artistry in piano teaching / William Brown.
As soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three honorary doctorates, more than 80 recordings, and lifetime achievement awards presented by France, Germany, and Israel. Former Pressler student William Br...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: A Few Words Before; Acknowledgments; Part One: A Life in Teaching; One A Brief Biography; Two The Studio; Three Pressler's Early Training; Four The Debussy Competition; Five Opportunities in America; Six Bloomington; Seven General Aspects of Pressler's Teaching; Eight The Technical Approach; Nine Principles of Expressive Performance; Ten Guides for Practicing; Eleven Technical Instructions; Twelve Pressler's Humor; Thirteen Pressler at the Met: Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110; Fourteen Pressler at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute; Part Two: The Music.
- Fifteen Johann Sebastian BachSixteen Béla Bartók; Seventeen Ludwig van Beethoven; Eighteen Johannes Brahms; Nineteen Frédéric Chopin; Twenty Claude Debussy; Twenty-One Joseph Haydn; Twenty-Two Franz Liszt; Twenty-Three Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Twenty-Four Serge Prokofiev; Twenty-Five Maurice Ravel; Twenty-Six Franz Schubert; Twenty-Seven Robert Schumann; Twenty-Eight Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Twenty-Nine Carl Maria von Weber; Appendix A. Menahem Pressler's Musical Ancestry; Appendix B. Lineage of Pressler's Piano Teachers; Appendix C. Tributes to Pressler.
- Appendix D. Pressler's Studio Rosters, 1955-2008Bibliography; Index of Compositions; Index of Names and Concepts.