Ignaz Friedman : romantic master pianist / Allan Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Allan, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pianists--Biography.

Pianists.

Friedman, Ignaz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Allan Evans's groundbreaking biography of Ignaz Friedman gives the reader the behind and the between of the life and career of this extraordinary pianist. Friedman's repertory emphasized the major works of Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms, but he was perhaps best known for his interpretation of the Chopin mazurkas, which by all accounts he played with the same rhythmic nuance as their composer. Evans examines Friedman's life as a cultured Jewish musician from Poland; his studies in Leipzig and Vienna; his marriage to Manya Schidlowsky -- a Russian countess and relative of Tolstoy; and his performing career, teaching, and retirement in Australia.

Contents:

Musical traditions that hide in shellac

From Poland

"Music begins where technique leaves off"

2,800 concerts

From Old Russia

Encroaching modernism

From Beethoven to Hitler

In safety, down under

Exile

Chopin on the Nile

The piano according to Tiegerman

The piano according to Friedman.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes discography (p. 337), bibliographical references (p. 377-382) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-29335-4

9786612293351

0-253-00338-5

OCLC:

503473706