Musical thoughts & afterthoughts / Alfred Brendel.
| Author/creator |
Brendel, Alfred |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 1976. | |
| Description | 168 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Princeton essays on the arts Princeton essays on the arts ^A86040 |
| Contents | Beethoven. Notes on a complete recording of Beethoven's piano works -- Werktreue: an afterthought -- Form and psychology in Beethoven's piano sonatas -- Schubert. Schubert's piano sonatas, 1822-1828 -- Liszt. Liszt misunderstood -- Liszt and the piano circus: an afterthought -- Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies -- Liszt's piano playing -- Turning the piano into an orchestra (Liszt's transcriptions and paraphrases) -- Fidelity to Liszt's letter? -- Busoni. A peculiar serenity -- Arlecchino and Doktor Faust -- Afterthoughts on Busoni -- Edwin Fischer. Remembering my teacher -- Afterthoughts on Edwin Fischer -- Coping with pianos -- Jeremy Siepmann: talking to Brendel -- Appendix: The process of foreshortening in the first movement of Beethoven's sonata op. 2, no. 1. |
| Abstract | Celebrated pianist writes about the piano music of Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Busoni, about his teacher Edwin Fischer, and about the problems and complexities of 'Coping with pianos.' Alfred Brendel reflects on Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, and Busoni, composers whose works figured prominently into his own repertoire as a pianist. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-165) and index. |
| LCCN | 76003267 |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML60.B85 M8 1976 | ✔ Available | Place Hold | |
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML60.B85 M8 1976 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |