The Art of Piano Playing
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- The Art of Piano Playing
- Author
- Heinrich Neuhaus
- Subject
- Heinrich Neuhaus and the Russian piano school
- Publisher
- Barrie & Jenkins
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1973
- Language
- English
- Type
- Memoir-pedagogy / pianist / interpretation
SCOPE & CONTENT
This expanded dossier treats The Art of Piano Playing as a substantial source on Heinrich Neuhaus and the Russian piano school. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person testimony, retrospective recollection and later biographical reconstruction, so that the book can be used as evidence rather than merely as anecdote.
RESEARCH VALUE
For performance-history research, the book is especially useful for tracing pianistic training, teachers, repertory choices, concert practice, recordings, interpretive ideals and the changing institutions of twentieth-century pianism. Where the author writes from personal memory, those observations are treated as primary testimony and should be compared with programs, recordings, correspondence and contemporary criticism.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND DOCUMENTARY SCOPE
The record preserves title, author, subject and edition-level identifiers so that the source can be retrieved even when the physical PDF filename is abbreviated. The underlying document is never renamed or altered by this enrichment layer.
RESEARCH VALUE
The dossier treats biography as evidence for chronology, repertory, institutions, performance practice and reception. Verified catalogue values are retained; curated values are copied only into empty fields when a physical attachment can be matched safely.
- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields