| Edition |
Revised and updated. |
| Description |
525 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
In the beginning -- It should flow like oil -- Thirds, sixths, and octaves -- In profile and on the road -- String-snapper, hands on high -- In the interim -- From Ireland to Bohemia -- Romanticism and its rules -- Tubercular, romantic, poetic -- Thunder, lightning, mesmerism, sex -- Old arpeggio, other salonists, and the American penetration -- More salonists, and the Revolutionary in octaves -- Two sensitive ones -- The first American -- The virtuous -- Tyrant and intellectual -- The children of the Abbé -- Thunder from the East -- French neatness, precision, elegance -- The Lisztianers and Leschetizkianers take over -- An archangel come down to earth -- The little giant, and other Liszt-made giants -- Some of the Leschetizky group -- The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and others -- The ladies -- Composers at the keyboard -- Dr. Faust at the keyboard -- Perfection plus -- The Puritan -- Some headliners of the day -- New philosophies, new styles -- the man who invented Beethoven -- Romanticism still burns -- Twentieth-century schools -- After the thaw -- Bach à la mode -- Two cult figures -- Made in America. |
| Awards |
Listed in the H.W. Wilson Public Library Core Collection, 2008 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Pianists -- Biography.
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Musicians -- Biography.
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Composers -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0671638378 |
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9780671638375 |
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