Chapter I: Front Matter

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GREAT PIANISTS ON PIANO PLAYING

Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos

by

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

20. LEARNING A NEW PIECE _E. Schelling_ 267

21. WHAT INTERPRETATION REALLY IS _S. Stojowski_ 279