The great pianists
Subtitle: from Mozart to the present
By: Harold C. Schonberg
Edition: Rev. and updated
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780671638375
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Pianists -- Biography.
Description: The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history's greatest pianists.
Notes: Subtitle from cover.
"A Fireside book" - Title page verso.
Includes index.
This revised and updated edition originally published in hardcover in 1987.
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; title: 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; title: After the thaw; title: Bach à la mode; title: Two cult figures; title: Made in America