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    612-822-4611

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England's Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay

England's Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay

Siek, Stephen

Paperback

MusiciansGeneral MusicMusic Instruction: Piano

ISBN10: 0578728486
ISBN13: 9780578728483
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 676
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.49 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Pianist and teacher Tobias Matthay (1858-1945) believed that science could unlock the secrets of artistic success, and his revolutionary theories, first expressed in his 1903 landmark study The Act of Touch, soon began to attract worldwide attention. Eventually, at London's Royal Academy of Music, and at his own internationally famous school on Wimpole Street, he trained some of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, including Dame Myra Hess, Irene Scharrer, Sir Clifford Curzon, York Bowen, Harriet Cohen, Eileen Joyce, and Dame Moura Lympany. By 1925 his towering status in Britain had reached across the Atlantic with the founding of the American Matthay Association and the adoption of his ideas by prominent voices at Yale and Juilliard. From these heights, Matthay's reputation would experience a precipitous fall-from his forced resignation from the Royal Academy to a barrage of criticism attacking his theories.

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