New York: G. Schrimer, 1905. — 100, 20 p. The groundwork of the Leschetizky method issued with his approval by his assistant Malwine Bree with forty-seven illustrative cuts of Leschetizky's hand.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1947. — 354 p. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to playing the pianoforte, with information on everything from finding the right notes to playing legato and staccato. "The Visible and Invisible in Pianoforte Technique" will be of utility to both beginner and more advanced students, and it would make for a worthy...
Edition 49 Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH. — 2009. — 13 S. Finger Fitness Center for Piano "Hallo Spieler / Spielerin des „FFC PianoTechnik“, Du willst Klavier spielen, und an einigen Stellen versagen die Finger? Ist doch logisch! Denn ganz untrainiert würdest Du ja auch schlapp machen, wolltest Du beim Marathon- oder Hürdenlauf mitlaufen. Für jeden Sport gibt es ein spezielles...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 272 p. Though incomplete at the time of his death in 1849, Chopin's Projet de méthode was nonetheless revolutionary in many respects. But with his Fundamental Pattern, Chopin announced the recognition, if not discovery, of the keyboard's extraordinary topographical symmetry and postulated a core formulation for a new "pianistic" pedagogy. More...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2004. — 448 p. The piano was the musical instrument of choice in the nineteenth century, emerging as a symbol of respectability, domesticity, and sentimentality. Yet as familiar as the nineteenth-century piano repertoire has become, recent scholarship has brought a new and exciting complexity to our understanding of the music. The book examines the...
Scarecrow Press, 2012. — 291 p. No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed specifically for piano. In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 19 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard...
New York: S.T. Gordon, 1867. - 124 p. "The execution of music embraces two distinct heads: First, the comprehension of the signs indicating the various sounds requisite for a musical composition ; the degrees of loudness anil softness ; the ornaments, the style, and the expression which characterize it: Second, the ability to perform it, mechanically, with the voice, or upon an...
New York: G. Schirmer, 1900. — 118 p. Wikipedia: "Piano students all over the world know of Hanon’s famous training exercises. Both Sergei Rachmaninoff and Josef Lhévinne claimed Hanon to be the secret of why the Russian piano school delivered an explosion of virtuosi in their time, for the Hanon exercises have been obligatory for a long time throughout Russian conservatories;...
Theodore Presser Co., Bryn Mawr, 1932/1938. — 162 p. This book consists of two complete books: " The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection " and " Rhythmics, Dynamics, Pedal and Other Problems of Piano Playing " by Leimer-Gieseking. Reprint by Dover Publications, New York. From an Amazon review: The volume presents two books by Walter Gieseking, foremost pianist of his...
The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. — 510 p. The Craft of Piano Playing presents an original approach to piano technique with a fascinating series of exercises designed to help the reader put this approach into practice. Alan Fraser has combined his years of study with pioneer piano pedagogue Phil Cohen, his extensive concert and teaching experience, his long-standing...