Part 1

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GREAT PIANISTS ON PIANO PLAYING

Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos

JAMES FRANCIS COOKE

A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression

Theo. Presser Co. Philadelphia, Pa.

Copyright, 1913, by Theo. Presser Co. International Copyright Secured

CONTENTS

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1. THE ARTIST'S LIFE 5

2. ARE PIANISTS BORN OR MADE? 24

3. THE STORY OF A WONDER-CHILD Pepito Arriola 41

4. THE PIANIST OF TO-MORROW Wilhelm Bachaus 52

5. ARTISTIC ASPECTS OF PIANO STUDY Harold Bauer 64

6. APPEARING IN PUBLIC Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler 80

7. IMPORTANT DETAILS IN PIANO STUDY Ferruccio Busoni 97

8. DISTINCTIVE PIANO PLAYING Teresa Carreño 109

9. ESSENTIALS OF TOUCH Ossip Gabrilowitsch 122

10. THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TECHNIC Leopold Godowsky 133

11. ANALYZING MASTERPIECES Katharine Goodson 144

12. PROGRESS IN PIANO STUDY Josef Hofmann 158

13. PIANO STUDY IN RUSSIA Josef Lhévinne 170

14. SEEKING ORIGINALITY Vladimir de Pachmann 182

15. MODERN PIANISTIC PROBLEMS Max Pauer 197

16. ESSENTIALS OF ARTISTIC PLAYING S. V. Rachmaninoff 208

17. SYSTEMATIC MUSICAL TRAINING A. Reisenauer 222

18. THE TRAINING OF THE VIRTUOSO E. Sauer 236

19. ECONOMY IN MUSIC STUDY X. Scharwenka 252