LEADER 03749nam 22006491 450 001 9910790559203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-01352-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001118455 035 $a(EBL)1402901 035 $a(OCoLC)858764959 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001000384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11537153 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10950937 035 $a(PQKB)11514041 035 $a(OCoLC)680602402 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1402901 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10767193 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL518795 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1402901 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001118455 100 $a20101112d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMenahem Pressler $eartistry in piano teaching /$fWilliam Brown 210 1$aBloomington :$cIndiana University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-35241-X 311 $a1-299-87544-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: A Few Words Before; Acknowledgments; Part One: A Life in Teaching; One A Brief Biography; Two The Studio; Three Pressler's Early Training; Four The Debussy Competition; Five Opportunities in America; Six Bloomington; Seven General Aspects of Pressler's Teaching; Eight The Technical Approach; Nine Principles of Expressive Performance; Ten Guides for Practicing; Eleven Technical Instructions; Twelve Pressler's Humor; Thirteen Pressler at the Met: Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110; Fourteen Pressler at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute; Part Two: The Music 327 $aFifteen Johann Sebastian Bach Sixteen Be?la Barto?k; Seventeen Ludwig van Beethoven; Eighteen Johannes Brahms; Nineteen Fre?de?ric Chopin; Twenty Claude Debussy; Twenty-One Joseph Haydn; Twenty-Two Franz Liszt; Twenty-Three Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Twenty-Four Serge Prokofiev; Twenty-Five Maurice Ravel; Twenty-Six Franz Schubert; Twenty-Seven Robert Schumann; Twenty-Eight Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Twenty-Nine Carl Maria von Weber; Appendix A. Menahem Pressler's Musical Ancestry; Appendix B. Lineage of Pressler's Piano Teachers; Appendix C. Tributes to Pressler 327 $aAppendix D. Pressler's Studio Rosters, 1955-2008 Bibliography; Index of Compositions; Index of Names and Concepts 330 $aAs soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three honorary doctorates, more than 80 recordings, and lifetime achievement awards presented by France, Germany, and Israel. Former Pressler student William Brown traces the master's pianistic development through Rudiakov, Kestenberg, Vengerova, Casadesus, Petri, and Steuermann, blending techniques and traditions derived from Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and J. S. Bach. Brown presents Pressler's approach to performance and teaching, including techn 606 $aPianists$vBiography 606 $aPiano music$xInterpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) 606 $aPiano teachers 606 $aPiano$xPerformance 615 0$aPianists 615 0$aPiano music$xInterpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) 615 0$aPiano teachers. 615 0$aPiano$xPerformance. 676 $a786.2092 700 $aBrown$b William Paul$f1947-$01565816 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790559203321 996 $aMenahem Pressler$93835846 997 $aUNINA