"[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer." -Artur Schnabel "This collection of [Wolff's] writings and letters should bear ample testimony to a musician who happily combined the artist, the teacher, the musicologist, and the charm and integrity of a human being." -Alfred Brendel "Konrad Wolff writes about music with the verve and enthusiasm of a great teacher who has never lost his sense of music as an adventure. To read him is to enter into a lively dialogue with a superior musical mind and a buoyant spirit." -Richard Goode…mehr
"[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer." -Artur Schnabel "This collection of [Wolff's] writings and letters should bear ample testimony to a musician who happily combined the artist, the teacher, the musicologist, and the charm and integrity of a human being." -Alfred Brendel "Konrad Wolff writes about music with the verve and enthusiasm of a great teacher who has never lost his sense of music as an adventure. To read him is to enter into a lively dialogue with a superior musical mind and a buoyant spirit." -Richard Goode This collection provides elegant and thorough portraits of an important 20th-century performer and lover of music, as well as of his greatest influences.
Ruth Gillen is a pianist who studied with the duo-pianists Vronsky and Babin, as well as with Konrad Wolff.
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Contents (as printed in first-edition book from Greenwood Press) Prologue, Leon Fleisher Foreword, Russell Sherman Preface Acknowledgements Biographical Sketch Part I: Composers Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Bach (1685-1750) His Last Work Spirit, Style, and Forms Bach-Reger Brandenburg Concertos for Piano Duet Mozart (1756-1791) Quintet in D Major, K. 593 Beethoven (1770-1827) Several Perspectives Mostly Beethoven On Beethoven's Trills Bagatelles, Op. 119 The Ninth Symphony, Op. 125 Schubert (1797-1828) Schubert's Reaction to Beethoven Schubert's "L'istesso Tempo" Schubert's String Quintet in C: A Misplaced Repeat Sign? Schumann (1810-1856) On Titles and Verbal Descriptions in Music Liszt (1811-1886) Beethovenian Dissonances in Liszt's Piano Works Liszt's Approach to Piano Technique Stravinsky A Modern Faust Part II: Letters From: Paul Badura-Skoda; Review of Interpretation on the Piano - What We can Learn from Schnabel Alfred Brendel Paul Henry Lang Rudof Serkin To: Leon Fleisher Artur Schnabel To and From: A Colleague Sviatoslav Richter Part III: Miscellany Christmas Music Music Appreciation Authenticity The Beginnings of Cyclic Form Bach's Dedication to King Frederick August Halm Observations On Teaching On Music an Musicians A Lesson in Writing Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782): Siciliano in F-Sharp Minor Part IV: The Brendel-Wolff "Debate" The "Debate" Addendum by Alfred Brendel Notes Selected Bibliography Index A photographic essay follows
Contents (as printed in first-edition book from Greenwood Press) Prologue, Leon Fleisher Foreword, Russell Sherman Preface Acknowledgements Biographical Sketch Part I: Composers Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Bach (1685-1750) His Last Work Spirit, Style, and Forms Bach-Reger Brandenburg Concertos for Piano Duet Mozart (1756-1791) Quintet in D Major, K. 593 Beethoven (1770-1827) Several Perspectives Mostly Beethoven On Beethoven's Trills Bagatelles, Op. 119 The Ninth Symphony, Op. 125 Schubert (1797-1828) Schubert's Reaction to Beethoven Schubert's "L'istesso Tempo" Schubert's String Quintet in C: A Misplaced Repeat Sign? Schumann (1810-1856) On Titles and Verbal Descriptions in Music Liszt (1811-1886) Beethovenian Dissonances in Liszt's Piano Works Liszt's Approach to Piano Technique Stravinsky A Modern Faust Part II: Letters From: Paul Badura-Skoda; Review of Interpretation on the Piano - What We can Learn from Schnabel Alfred Brendel Paul Henry Lang Rudof Serkin To: Leon Fleisher Artur Schnabel To and From: A Colleague Sviatoslav Richter Part III: Miscellany Christmas Music Music Appreciation Authenticity The Beginnings of Cyclic Form Bach's Dedication to King Frederick August Halm Observations On Teaching On Music an Musicians A Lesson in Writing Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782): Siciliano in F-Sharp Minor Part IV: The Brendel-Wolff "Debate" The "Debate" Addendum by Alfred Brendel Notes Selected Bibliography Index A photographic essay follows
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