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This curated dossier identifies The Pianoforte Sonata: Its Origin and Development by J. S. Shedlock and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places…

Volume 7 of the fourteen-volume 1915 reference series The Art of Music is devoted to Pianoforte and Chamber Music. The series combines narrative history, specialist essays, illustrations, reference tools and musical examples, creating a broad survey of the repertory and musical culture recognized by English-language scholarship in the…

Published in New York in 1911, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research…

Brinsmead places the pianoforte within a longer history of sound, ancient instruments, keyboards and mechanical development. Written from the perspective of a member of a major piano-making family, it combines historical narrative with practical knowledge of construction.

Pauer’s concise primer addresses posture, hand position, touch, technical execution, practice, expression, ornaments, sight-reading, studies and repertory. It concludes with guidance on classical sonata study, stylistic schools and the history of the pianoforte and its predecessors.

A collection of interviews and practical observations from leading pianists and teachers, including Paderewski, Harold Bauer, Busoni, Godowsky and other major figures. It preserves early twentieth-century testimony on touch, technique, interpretation, practice, public performance and the transmission of piano-school traditions.

The continuation of Brower’s interview project brings together conversations with pianists including Josef Hofmann, Leopold Godowsky, Percy Grainger and Guiomar Novaes, together with material on MacDowell’s teaching and reminiscences of Rafael Joseffy. It extends the first volume’s documentary picture of piano technique and interpretation.

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.

Hofmann presents a concise statement of artistic piano playing and then answers practical questions on touch, technique, pedalling, style, practice, memory and performance. Particularly important is his recollection of lessons with Anton Rubinstein and his distinction between the mechanical and imaginative dimensions of interpretation.

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…

The Piano: An Encyclopedia is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier records…

Fay’s letters describe her years of piano study in Germany and her encounters with major teachers and musical personalities, including Liszt. The narrative combines practical observations about lessons, technique and repertoire with vivid reporting on musical institutions and concert life.