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Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: JR Books Ltd (August 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906217017
ISBN-13: 978-1906217013
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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This review is from: Alfred Brendel on Music: Collected Essays (Paperback)

Alfred Brendel discusses Classical and Romantic masterpieces, as well as various other musical subjects, in this collection of essays dating from the 1960's to the present. Many of these essays are clearly intended for people with a somewhat advanced musical familiarity. Pianists will find especially useful the chapters on Beethoven and Schubert sonatas, in which Brendel touches on style and interpretation, with excerpts from the scores. There is also a very intersting section about Schumann's Kinderszenen.

Numerous other essays here are accessible to beginners as well, and can be enjoyed simply for the author's wit and insight. 'Coping with Pianos' and 'A Case for Live Recordings,' for example, should be pleasurable reading for any music lover interested the technicalities behind the performance.

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Let this be the first warning to the Mozart performer: piano playing, be it ever so faultless, must not be considered sufficient. Read the first page

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foreshortening process, metronome figures, minor finale, gypsy scale, last sonatas, pedal markings, late sonatas, three sonatas, comic music, minor concerto, piano works, motivic material, major sonatas, metronome marks, alla breve, late pieces, subsidiary theme, functional harmony

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Diabelli Variations, Edwin Fischer, Doktor Faust, Wanderer Fantasy, New Grove, Anton Rubinstein, Artur Schnabel, Clara Schumann, Arnold Schoenberg, Hungarian Rhapsodies, New York, Charles Rosen, Hans von Billow, Jean Paul, Konrad Wolff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alban Berg, Sixth Theme, Franz Liszt, Rudolf Kolisch, Antony Beaumont, Brendel There, Carl Czerny, Collection Alfred Brendel, Die Winterreise

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Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg on 4 pages
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Music and the Line of Most Resistance (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series) by Artur Schnabel on 4 pages
Ferruccio Busoni by Antony Beaumont on page 1, page 354, and Back Matter
The Magic Flute (The Black Dog Opera Library) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on page 7, page 248, and page 306

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