All the Preludes, for their poetic import, finished style and pianistic effect, are masterpieces of the first rank.
In works for pianoforte, however, the composer who is also a virtuoso will often, and quite justifiably, introduce passages of purely pianistic effect which in other circumstances would amount to a confession of deficient imagination.
Certainly a piece which, in its picturesque suggestiveness and pianistic treatment, may fairly be called the ancestor of much that is beautiful in such modern composers as Debussy and Ravel.
This is followed at P by a free treatment for pianoforte, con fuoco, of the first theme which develops at Q into a most pianistic presentation (in the upper register of the instrument) of the phrase just announced by the 'cellos.
In these songs the instrumental part is of special import; Liszt in pianistic treatment anticipating Hugo Wolf with his "Songs for Voice and Pianoforte," i.
Some of his pianoforte pieces are, to be sure, of a light, salon type; yet in many we find a true, poetic sentiment and they are all written in a thoroughly pianistic idiom.
If we compare Liszt's pianistic offspring with Chopin's, the difference is indeed striking.
We shall, therefore, do well to give a moment's consideration to Chopin's fingering, especially as he was one of the boldest and most influential revolutionisers of this important department of the pianistic art.
How have the changes in the structure of the instrument affectedpianistic progress?
Can Liszt be regarded as a pianistic composer in the same sense as that in which Chopin is considered pianistic?
His pianistic opportunity came when a celebrated virtuoso who was to play at a concert was taken ill and Bauer was asked to substitute.
Simply because he found out certain pianistic secrets which Czerny or any of Liszt's teachers and contemporaries had failed to discover.
Many sincere and ambitious students make the great mistake of confounding these two very essential factors of pianistic success.
All of his compositions are pianistic and he does not condescend to pander to a trifling public taste.
Speaking from a strictlypianistic point of view, it is the player's individuality, influenced by the factors just stated, which is the determining element in producing new pianistic tendencies.
What lies at the foundation ofpianistic greatness?
My whole life experience makes me incapable of perceiving what the normal methods of pianistic study should be.
This is a difficult question, but it would seem that the borderland of pianistic difficulty had been reached in the compositions and transcriptions of Busoni and Godowsky.
Don Juan' fantasia, would represent something near the height of the pianistic virtuosity of the time, whilst with the Fantasia on a favourite waltz the concert-giver made his first public entree as a composer.
It still is pianistic; more pianistic and more suitable to the modern repertoire than a good deal of music by greater men who lived considerably later.
Even with Beethoven, the symphony is still simply enlarged chamber music, the orchestra being treated in a pianistic spirit which unfortunately shows itself even in the orchestral work of Schumann and Brahms.
In his piano accompaniment Liszt has displayed even more than his usual skill in preserving all the intrinsic beauty and precise poetic significance of the original, besides giving to it an eminentlypianistic form.
His genius flashed through every pianistic phrase, it illuminated a composition to its innermost recesses, and yet his wonderful effects, strange as it must seem, were produced without the advantage of a genuinely musical touch.
Chopin has been the evident model, and the result is always pianistic even at its most riotous point.
It is notpianistic in instrumentation, and will appeal to violinists.
While the songs repay study, they are rather marked by a pianistic meditation than a strictly lyric emotion.
Almost all of Foote's compositions are written in the close harmony and limited range of vocal music, and he very rarely sweeps the keyboard in his piano compositions, or hunts out startling novelties in strictly pianistic effect.
This bending out of the first joint is one of the hardest pianistic ailments to cure, but it is curable.
Indispensables inPianistic Success I "The Indispensables in Pianistic Success?
Therefore, if you would make a list of the indispensables of pianistic success in this country at this time you must put at the head of your list, REAL WORTH.
The composer's way of rendering his composition may not be free from certain predilections, biases, mannerisms, and his rendition may also suffer from a paucity of pianistic experience.
These conditions produce what may be called the pianistic nouveau-riche or parvenu, who practises the vices of the dilettante without, however, the mitigating excuse of ignorance or a lack of training.
Presently, a flowing melody in the bass begins against a pianissimo, arpeggiated accompaniment in the right hand, with a very charming and thoroughly pianistic effect, and the praeludium is carried through on this motive.
The work suggested the tradition of Franz Liszt in its propulsive energy and strictly pianistic language.
Nor does even Liszt mark an advance on Chopin from a purely pianistic point of view.
Public Library Kriehuber Berlioz Czerny Liszt Ernst A Matinee at Liszt's] The eminently pianistic quality of Liszt's original music commends it to every pianist.
Liszt's pianistic personality in the bud, shoot, and flower.
What is more, these fantasias contain much of Liszt's own genius, not to speak of his wonderful pianistic idiom.
Schubert's Mullerlieder seemed to have exhausted the possible ways of depicting in music the movements of the waters--but listen to the rippling arpeggios in Liszt's Fisher Boy, embodying the acquisitions of modernpianistic technic.
My own fingers seemed to enjoy it so much that I began to practice the piece; not that I wanted to play it in public--my pianistic repertoire even today is too limited to fill a recital program--but simply for my personal satisfaction.
Just as in his pianistic work Beethoven lives on the piano, so, in his symphonies, overtures, and chamber music he draws his sustenance from his instrumental ensemble.
In all his immense pianistic work, it is the "instrumental" side which is characteristic of him and makes him infinitely precious to me.
And that fixed star in the pianistic firmament, one who refuses to descend to earth and please the groundlings--Rafael Joseffy--is for me the most satisfying of all the pianists.
The big saving, then, in the pianistic curriculum is the dropping of studies, finger and otherwise.
They even make us feel at moments as though in them had been realized the definitive pianistic style, that the hour of transition to the new keyboard of quarter tones was nigh.
All his early realistic and revolutionary ideas found vent in his pianistic achievements.
We should revere him for the great service he has done the pianistic world.
Adele Aus der Ohe, whose personality is well remembered in America, on account of her various pianistic tours, now wears her brown hair softly drawn down over her ears, in Madonna fashion, a mode which becomes her vastly.
With this combination of velocity and close touch, it was a slight matter to produce those pianistic effects which were especially dear to him.
From the time of his complete immersion in composition, his ideas of pianistic effects, of tone colour, gradually led him farther and farther away from conventional pianism.
Rubinstein himself, MacDowell was told by one of the students, would have had to reform his pianistic manners if he had placed himself under the guidance of the Stuttgart pedagogues.
The influential part which Raff bore in turning MacDowell's aims definitely and permanently toward creative rather than pianistic activity could scarcely be overestimated.
He is not one of the pianistic experts in the narrower sense, like Messrs.
Robert always admired the pianistic talents of Wieck’s daughter though he never hesitated to criticise defects that came to his attention.
Back in Leipzig Robert took up his residence in the Wieck home, the quicker to pursue his pianistic studies.
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