Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901-61)
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Pianists
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Pianists
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087910614X
This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as black-and-white photos. “Testimony changed the perception of Shostakovich's life and work dramatically, and influenced innumerable performances of his music.” – New Grove Dictionary
Author : David Dubal
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574670882
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Author : Vladimir Feltsman
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1644387786
Vladimir Feltsman presents insights drawn from a lifetime of devotion to music: as a student, a teacher, a performer, and a recording artist. Beginning with his early days studying the piano in the Special School for Music in Moscow, he writes compellingly about his experience of becoming a professional musician and passing along what he learned to the next generation. Along the way, he sheds fascinating light on what it was like to pursue his vocation in the former Soviet Union, including eight years of artistic exile after he was refused permission to emigrate. In addition to these personal reflections, the book reproduces the highly informative "liner notes" Feltsman provided for many of the recordings in his extensive discography, ranging from Bach's Goldberg Variations to the 20th-century compositions of Soviet Russia's "forgotten" composers. A final inclusion is the text that Feltsman, a renowned Bach specialist, wrote to accompany a performing edition of The Well-Tempered Clavier, offering both an expansive overview and detailed analysis of each of the preludes and fugues.
Author : William Smialek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135581436
Important books, articles, reviews, and theses on Fr d ric Chopin (1810-1849) in Western European languages and in Polish are cited; selected references in languages such as Russian, Czech, and Japanese are included as well. The Chopin legend is considered through studies of the performance tradition and a discography of recent and reissued recordings. Short essays outline the historiography of Chopin research and the current direction of scholarship. Index.
Author : Dmitri_ Paperno
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574670349
(Amadeus). The rich musical life of Moscow is displayed in these memoirs where formidable Russian pianists take the world by storm, revealing by their virtuosity and musicianship the continuation of a great pianistic tradition. Dmitry Paperno was a witness to a golden age of the piano, when the celebrated schools of Moscow produced a stream of great pianists Gilels, Richter, Ashkenazy and he tells his, and their, stories here. HARDCOVER.
Author : Antonio Artese
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Yana Tyulkova
Publisher : SCHOTT MUSIC GmbH & Company KG / Schott Campus
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3959835922
This book is the monograph of Ukrainian-Russian Classical / Jazz composer Nikolai Kapustin. It grew out of meetings and conversations between the author and the composer. It aims to introduce the fascinating world of this modern day leading composer to a wider audience.
Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Pianists
ISBN : 0307266370
A fascinating celebration of the piano, including tales of its masters from Mozart and Beethoven to Oscar Peterson and Jerry Lee Lewis, told with the expertise of composer and author of Temperament, Stuart Isacoff. This history takes us back to the piano's humble genesis as a simple keyboard, and shows how everyone from Ferdinando de' Medici to Herbie Hancock affected its evolution of sound and influence in popular music. Presenting the instrument that has been at the core of musical development over the centuries in all its beauty and complexity, this explores the piano's capabilities and the range of emotional expression it conveys in different artists' hands. A Natural History of the Piano is fast-paced and intriguing, with beautiful illustrations and photos, a must-read for music lovers and pianists of every level.
Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 147664053X
A crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship. Russian champion Mark Taimanov was a touted as a hero of the Soviet state until his loss to Bobby Fischer all but ruined his life. Yefim Geller's dream of becoming world champion was crushed by a bad move against Fischer, his hated rival. Yuri Averbakh had no explanation how he became the world's oldest grandmaster, other than the quixotic nature of fate. Vasily Smyslov, the only one of the five to become world champion, would reign for just one year--fortune, he said, gave him pneumonia at the worst possible time. This book explores how fate played a capricious role in the lives of five of the greatest players in chess history.