Great Pianists on Piano Playing

Great Pianists on Piano PlayingLearning from a virtuoso is something that any piano student would love to do. But while master classes are rare, this remarkable book allows us to share the thoughts, musical insights, and experience of the world's greatest pianists. In 28 separate interviews, these legendary artists talk about piano technique, musical development, what is required to achieve virtuoso piano artistry, and many other topics related to keyboard performance. Included are

carved hieroglyphics

books on political animals

ethnography

master etchers

spherical aberration

It examines chemistry and nature in the Renaissance

This pedagogical background helped him achieve a work of utmost clarity and precision — one that belongs in the library of every serious mathematician or student of higher analysis

With 150 illustrative full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz

and many biochemical compounds are described

mechanical waves in stretched strings and in quartz crystals that can be used to control the frequency of radio transmitters

beyond making vague hints of an organic universe and neo-Hegelianism

famed Italian composer and organist Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)