Masters of the Keyboard, Enlarged Edition: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahm

by Konrad Wolff

Book Overview

" . . . fluently written and often humorous . . . " --Notes

" . . . should be required reading for performers and teachers." --The Eighteenth Century

Konrad Wolff characterizes in detail the personal musical language of several great masters of the piano, pursuing different lines of investigation to discover each composer's essential traits. He brings the accumulated wisdom of his long career as a pianist and teacher to this delineation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205670
• ISBN13: 9780253205674
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher