Menahem Pressler : artistry in piano teaching / William Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, William Paul, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pressler, Menahem.

Pianists.

Piano teachers.

Piano--Performance.

Piano.

Piano music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).

Piano music.

Physical Description:

xiv, 311 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Preface: A Few Words Before XI

Part 1 A Life in Teaching

1 A Brief Biography 3

2 The Studio 5

3 Pressler's Early Training 9

4 The Debussy Competition 16

5 Opportunities in America 23

6 Bloomington 35

7 General Aspects of Pressler's Teaching 44

8 The Technical Approach 54

9 Principles of Expressive Performance 65

10 Guides for Practicing 87

11 Technical Instructions 93

12 Pressler's Humor 113

13 Pressler at the Met: Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110 122

14 Pressler at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute 137

Part 2 The Music

15 Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 2 In C Minor, S. 826 155

16 Bela Bartok: Out of Doors 161

17 Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 In E-Flat Major, Op. 73, Emperor; Sonata, Op. 81A, Les Adieux 165

18 Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 2 Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 177

19 Frederic Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 Nocturne in E Major, Op. 62, No. 2 189

20 Claude Debussy: Prelude, "Les Collines D'Anacapri," Book 1, No. 5 Prelude, "Feux D'Artifice," Book 2, No. 12 L'Isle Joyeuse 196

21 Joseph Haydn: Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50 204

22 Franz Liszt: Apres Une Lecture Du Dante 207

23 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata In B-Flat Major, K. 281 212

24 Serge Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 In B-Flat Major, Op. 83 215

25 Maurice Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit Le Tombeau De Couperin Piano Trio in a Minor 219

26 Franz Schubert: Fantasie in C Major, D. 760, Wanderer 237

27 Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 Concerto in a Minor, Op. 54 245

28 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 256

29 Carl Maria von Weber: "Perpetual Motion": Sonata in C Major, Op. 24, Finale 261

Appendix A Menahem Pressler's Musical Ancestry 265

Appendix B Lineage of Pressler's Piano Teachers 267

Appendix C Tributes to Pressler 273

Appendix D Pressler's Studio Rosters, 1955-2008 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780253352415

025335241X

OCLC:

216935831