The performance of somepianists is so wonderful that it seems as if they were crossing Niagara on a tight-rope, and you tremble lest they should fall off.
Diaz had come to the front in a generation of pianists who had lifted technique to a plane of which neither Liszt nor Rubinstein dreamed.
Her emotional force, her personal magnetism and her keen processes of analysis compelled critics everywhere to rank her with the foremost pianists of the day.
Among other things I would suggest the advisability for pianists to cultivate some knowledge of the construction of their instrument.
These pianists are wonderfully well read, many being acquainted with the literature of three or more tongues in the original.
Many of the virtuosos find travel in America so distasteful that notwithstanding the huge golden bait, the managers have the greatest difficulty in inducing the pianists to come back.
What better guide could you possibly have than the words of the great pianists themselves?
He may perhaps never be equalled in certain respects, but on the other hand there are unquestionably pianists to-day who would have astonished the great master with their technics--I speak technically, purely technically.
Should pianists acquire a knowledge of the main feature in the construction of their instrument?
Do great pianists devote much time to writing upon piano technic?
In order to indicate how carefully and willingly this was done by thepianists it is interesting to note the case of the great Russian composer-virtuoso Rachmaninoff.
Furthermore, the means which have produced the great pianists of the past are likely to differ but little from those which will produce the pianists of the future.
Pianists who have been curious about my technical accomplishments have apparently been amazed when I have told them that scales are my great technical mainstay--that is, scales plus hard work.
Possibly this may be one of the reasons why some of the Russian pianists have been so favorably received in recent years.
We find also among the noted pianists who were first known here in this period Arabella Goddard, Rafael Joseffy, Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisler and Josef Hofmann.
Among pianists Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilovitsch appeared in 1900, and later came Rudolf Ganz, Josef Lhevinne, Katherine Goodson, and Serge Rachmaninof.
As a mere child he had formed the habit of mimicking and caricaturing pianists and other distinguished men.
The pianists for them, the real drawing-room composers were Kalkbrenner, and Field, and Thalberg, with their operatic fantasias.
Very few pianists seem to comprehend the exact function and importance of the pedal.
Pianists have always been too much in the habit of looking at their art from purely technical or mechanical points of view.
Yet even among this better class of pianists the notion seems to prevail that the main object of the right-side pedal is to enable them to prolong a chord or to prevent a confusion of consecutive harmonies.
The three alien pianists had reduced themselves to a Polish sculptor, an Irish novelist and a Scottish portrait-painter.
Nor are these the only things for which generations of pianists have to thank the Bach of the Cöthen period.
What a stumbling-block that A minor explosion was to audiences and students and to pianists themselves.
To return to my mutton--to my sheep: they told me they were pianists from New York or thereabouts, who had conceived the notion of spending the summer in a tent.
I recommend the book to all pianists, especially to those pianists who hug the house, practising all day and laboring under the delusion that they are developing their individuality.
Is it any wonder that, paradoxical as it may sound, there are fewer great pianists today in public than there were fifty years ago, yet ten times as many pianists!
Pianists are now so intellectual that they sometimes forget to play the piano well.
This volatile, versatile, vibratile, vivacious, vicious temperament of his has been copied by most modern pianists who haven't brains enough to parse a sentence or play a Bach Invention.
Doubtless a fewpianists with abnormal muscles have escaped this, for there was a time when octaves were played with stiff wrists and rapid tempo.
His style, like Joseph's coat of many colors, appealed to pianists because of its factitious brilliancy.
Although he somewhat modified this opinion in after years, it is indicative of the impression produced on the most celebrated pianists by Chopin's early works.
Chopin, although not only a composer, but one of the greatest of pianists (the first of his day as many think) gave proportionately the fewest concerts; yet he wished to be laid in the grave in the clothes he had worn on those occasions.
Several pianists followed; last of all came Chopin, whom both Liszt and Hiller were obliged to admit far surpassed them in comprehending the spirit of the Mazurka.
The pre-eminence attached to technical superiority by pianists of the present day obliges them to devote their whole time to acquiring mechanical dexterity and enormous force.
How many celebratedpianists exaggerate or misunderstand the meaning of Chopin's works!
Amongst the pianists is Miss Teresa Malderton, who nearly fell a prey to that gay deceiver Mr. Horatio Sparkins (S.
We find the fondness for Italian names shown by vocalists and pianists humorously parodied in such self-evident forms as Jacksonini, Signora Marra Boni, and Billsmethi.
Wilhelmine Clausz, besides being one of the best women pianists of to-day, has composed a few pieces for her instrument, and has done much excellent editing and arranging.
In the front rank of American pianists is Julia Rivé-King.
Marie Szymanowska, born in 1790, was a pupil of John Field, and became one of the leading pianists of her time.
He is not inferior to D'Albert, and one of the very first pianists of the day.
To grasp its vastness of conception and to present it without the least appearance of struggle in perfect balance of poetry and philosophy is a task which Busoni alone of living pianists can accomplish.
All pianists are expected to play Chopin; but there are not many works of Chopin that will stand the strain of interpretation in the modern virtuoso's manner.
He considers it impossible for any pupil, however gifted, to grasp more than the grammar of his teaching in a few months--as somepianists have tried to do.
This connection of the great pianists has been the subject of much of that sentimental talk of which writers on music and of musical biography are so fond.
Her artistic temperament had often caused her to pity from the bottom of her heart those pianists and singers, whom nobody listens to at parties, and whose first notes invariably give the signal for general conversation.
Schowalski is one of the greatest pianists of the day," said Dora.
Three years afterwards the critics spoke of him as one of the best pianists in Berlin.
John Bull has also been praised for having composed some pieces for the Virginal so difficult that even pianists of the present day are startled by his rapid passages in thirds and sixths.
The execution of many modern pianists is best suited for the performance of their own compositions.
Celebrated pianists evidently found but little favour with him.
The public did not care for them, and the majority of pianists did not understand them.
Give me at the same time some news about music and pianists in Vienna; and finally tell me, dear Master, which of your compositions you think would make the best effect in society.
I reserve to myself the matter of deciding on what pianists shall accompany the Ballads, and undertake the piano part of the "Trios" that are to be given.
For virtuoso pianists an entirely new world remains to be conquered in the works of Brahms.
But for pianists in general some of the Chopin works still remain along the farthest borders of their art.
In the year 1829 our two first American pianists were born: Louis Moreau Gottschalk in New Orleans, and William Mason in Boston.
The first contains nothing of greater difficulty than the fifth grade, and is, therefore, within the reach of pianists of very moderate abilities.
John Field, born in Dublin, in 1782, a pupil of Clementi, was one of the greatest and most celebrated pianists of his time.
It is, however, interesting to read the criticism of one of the most gifted pianists of the present day, Hermann Scholtz.
Below was written in German: “Herr Chopin is one of the best pianists I have heard.
Except Czerny, I have seen none of the pianists this time.
In spite of his masterly skill he did not find it easy to gain a footing in a city, where there were already many pianists of talent and celebrity.
One day Potter asked him his opinion of one of the principalpianists then in Vienna (Moscheles).
It was noted in a former chapter, that the leading female pianistsalso of Vienna were divided into ~pro~ and ~anti~ Beethovenists.
The great pianists have nothing but technique and affectation.
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