The great pianists
By: Harold C.Schonberg
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Published: 1964
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780575004184
Copyright date: 1963
Notes: "321 pianists, 107 illustrations" - cover.
"Copyright 1963. First published May 1964." - Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: It should flow like oil; title: Thirds, sixths, and octaves; title: In profile and on the road; title: String-snapper, hands on high; title: In the interim; title: From Ireland to Bohemia; title: Romanticism and its rules; title: Tubercular, romantic, poetic; title: Thunder, lightning, Mesmerism, sex; title: Old Arpeggio, other salonists, and the American penetration-- More salonists, and the Revolutionary in octaves; title: Two sensitive ones; title: The first American; title: The virtuous; title: Tyrant and intellectual; title: The children of the Abbé; title: Thunder from the East; title: French neatness, precision, elegance; title: The Lisztianers and Leschetitzkianers take over; title: An archangel come down to earth; title: The Little Giant, and other Liszt-made giants; title: Some of the Leschetitzky group; title: The Chopinzee, the Buddha and others; title: The ladies; title: Composers at the keyboard; title: Dr. Faustus at the keyboard; title: Perfection plus; title: The Puritan; title: Some headliners of the day; title: New philosophies, new styles; title: The man who invented Beethoven; title: Romanticism still burns; title: Twentieth-century schools