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Book SynopsisThe piano teaching methods of Franz Liszt
Trade ReviewThe book makes interesting reading and furnishes valuable knowledge of the piano literature taught and performed at the time . . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections.
* Choice *
A useful contribution to documentary evidence of study with master pedagogues.
* Piano and Keyboard *
If one could go back in time and space, I feel sure most pianists, musicians and lovers of music would desire to go back to [Liszt's] time and study with this great personality—but we cannot. However in this book you have it all.
* Keyboard Teacher *
Notes were taken during more than 100 classes and include Liszt's ideas, sayings, teaching methods, and interpretive suggestions. The notes are impressive because of the breath of works studied and the intensity Liszt displayed while teaching.
* The American Liszt Society, Inc. *
. . . should prove of interest to pianists seeking insights into the standard repertory, to researchers needing primary source material . . . and to those interested in the performing traditions from the great age of Romantic pianism.
* Notes *
An unbelievable source of knowledge and thus indispensable . . . Belongs with the most important [diaries] in the Liszt literature.
* Lizst Saeculum *
These journals . . . are indispensable, clarifying both the presence and (matched by elegant typography) is supplemented with copious music examples, meticulous reference and biographical notes.
* International Piano Quarterly *
[Liszt] gives practical tips, drawn from a well of experience sans pareil . . . demonstrates how to project second-rate music (a Rubinstein concerto) . . . [and] suggests ways of coping with the truly profound (in response to a student's performance of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations).
* Times Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
The Piano Master Classes of Franz Liszt, 1884-1886
Foreword
Literature
Abbreviations
Chronology of August Gollerich's Life
Introduction to the Diaries
The Diaries of August Gollerich
1. Weimar: May 31, 1884-July 6, 1884
2. Weimar: June 16, 1885-June 27, 1885
3. Weimar: June 28, 1885-September 29, 1885
4. Rome: November 11, 1885-January 12, 1886
5. Pest: February 18, 1886-February 25, 1886
6. Pest: Before March 2, 1886-March 6, 1886
7. Weimar: May 17, 1886-May 31, 1886
8. Weimar: June 15, 1886-June 26, 1886
Appendix A: "Liszt," from The Memoirs of Frederic Lamond
Appendix B: "Liszt as Teacher," by Jose Vianna da Motta
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
Index
