Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos
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- Title
- Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos
- Author
- James Francis Cooke
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Theodore Presser Company
- Place
- Philadelphia
- Year
- 1913
- Extent
- 288 pages; portrait plates
- Language
- English
- Type
- Interviews / piano pedagogy / performance practice
SCOPE & CONTENT
Cooke assembles educational interviews with prominent pianists on technique, interpretation, style, expression, practice and professional life. The first edition contains twenty-one principal chapters and preserves comments by artists such as Busoni and Harold Bauer.
RESEARCH VALUE
The book documents the language and priorities of the international piano world immediately before the First World War. It is especially useful for comparing individual schools of technique rather than treating a single performer’s advice as normative.
CONTENTS AND DOCUMENTARY VALUE
Cooke assembles educational interviews with prominent pianists on technique, interpretation, style, expression, practice and professional life. The first edition contains twenty-one principal chapters and preserves comments by artists such as Busoni and Harold Bauer.
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL USE
The book documents the language and priorities of the international piano world immediately before the First World War. It is especially useful for comparing individual schools of technique rather than treating a single performer’s advice as normative.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields