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The Golden Age of Piano

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"Treat a piano badly, and it will sulkily lock up its treasures of tone. Treat it lovingly and understandingly, and it is one of the most responsive of instruments; its harp of over two hundred strings, its great sounding board and frame, and its system of pedals are all susceptible to the minutest variations of sound for musical purposes, to such a degree that very slight and apparently unimportant motions at the keyboard affect the tonal mass."
(Ernest Hutcheson, 1871-1951)

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If you are interested in (some of) the historical recordings I posted, please buy the ORIGINAL transfers from the best specialist independant labels, such as APR, Arbiter Records, Biddulph, Marston, Music & Arts, Naxos Historical, Pearl, Testament and VAI Audio. They have the best sound quality.

Name: Erwin

Enjoy my channel, mainly dedicated to V.S.O.P.
(Very Superior Old Pianists)!

City: La Haye

Website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM/tradi...

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	umbrellano (1 day ago) welcome back!
	magicalmerk (1 month ago) thanks for sharing all this great music!
	Noshirm (1 month ago) The Backhaus disc of the Mendelssohn-Hutcheson piece is my favorite on your channel so far this year, E. Thanks for posting these rarities! (:-D)
	ForeverIsis (1 month ago) Your channel is WONDERFULL!! Isis
	pianopat (1 month ago) Your channel is full of treasures! Thank you
	danceofthegoblins (1 month ago) I'm so glad I found this great channel! Those playlists look quite inviting....thanks for sharing!
	pianopera (2 months ago) The 500th subscriber today! I thank you all for visiting and supporting my channel.
	Sinfoniette (2 months ago) Thanks for the female pianists playlists. It was very pleasing to listen to those recordings, esp. Schlozer etude/Joyce. M
	Noshirm (2 months ago) The first movement of the Franck sounds lovely! Great end to an exhausting day, E. Thanks much! ^_^
	MAZURKAofLIFE (2 months ago) Hi Erwin, thank you very much for your invitation to explore your channel ! You've built up a true treasure for a piano-lover and I'll enjoy your videos in extenso ! Let's become friends ! All the very best for you, Mazurka

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Sviatoslav Richter plays Chopin 7 Preludes from opus 28 (1950 rec.)

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Josef Hofmann

Josef (Józef Kazimierz) Hofmann, 1876-1957.
One of the greatest pianists of all time, startling audiences when he was six years old. Apart from having taken lessons with Eugen d'Albert, he is the best disciple of Anton Rubinstein, and although he is considered one of the first "modernists" in piano playing, his style must have been influenced by that Master. Some of his studio recordings can sound a little remote; there is much more spontaneity in his amazing live-recordings, e.g. Chopin's Ballades or the First Piano Concerto.
"His style combined an aristocratical musical line, a perpetually singing tone, and a range of dynamics from the most etheral pianissimo to tigerish surges in which the piano erupted." (Harold Schonberg)
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My favourite female pianists of the past

Lily Atanassova, Gaby Casadesus, Catherine Collard, Fanny Davies, Ania Dorfmann, Ilona Eibenschütz, Etelka Freund, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Myra Hess, Agi Jambor, Eileen Joyce, Lili Kraus, Wanda Landowska, Adelina de Lara, Yvonne Lefébure, Rosina Lhévinne, Marguerite Long, Marcelle Meyer, Elly Ney, Eunice Norton, Guiomar Novaës, Rosita Renard, Antonietta Rudge, Olga Samaroff, Ruth Slenczynska, Hilde Somer, Magda Tagliaferro, Rosa Tamarkina, Rosalyn Tureck, Maria Yudina, Irina Zaritskaya.
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Pupils of Theodor Leschetitzky

Teodor Leszetycki (mostly referred to by the germanised name used by himself Theodor Leschetizky, June 22, 1830 -- November 14, 1915) was a Polish pianist, teacher and composer. He was born in Łańcut, Poland (at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).

From an early age he was recognized as a prodigy, and after studying in Vienna with Karl CZERNY and Simon Sechter he became a teacher at fourteen; by the age of eighteen he was a well-known virtuoso in Viennese music circles. Besides performing, he became a very influential piano teacher, first at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, which he co-founded with Anton Rubinstein, and subsequently in Vienna. His students included many of the most renowned pianists of their time, including Ignaz FRIEDMAN, Benno MOISEIWITSCH, Elly NEY, Ignacy PADEREWSKI, Artur SCHNABEL, Mark HAMBOURG, Mieczysław HORSZOWSKI and many others.

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