Vladimir de Pachmann: A Piano Virtuoso's Life and Art

by Mark Mitchell and Mark Mitchell

Piano virtuoso Vladimir de Pachmann (1848-1933) is remembered today more often than not for the comic and sometimes bizarre on-stage behavior that earned him the epithet ""Chopinzee."" Yet during his years as a performer, Pachmann was regarded as one of the four or five greatest pianists in the world, and as the outstanding exponent of Chopin. Mark Mitchell's richly detailed biography -- the first to be published -- reconciles the personality with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253341698
• ISBN13: 9780253341693
• Release Date: January 1834
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"