- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications; 1 edition (May 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486295966
- ISBN-13: 978-0486295961
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.4 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #614,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hard-to-find book documents principles and techniques of legendary piano teacher, who taught Paderewski, Schnabel, many other greats. Clear, easy-to-follow text, profusely illustrated with music examples and photographs of hand positions. Includes finger exercises, scales, octaves, chords, arpeggios, dynamics, the pedal, many other topics.
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LESCHETIZKY used to say, "Sit easy and erect at the piano, like a good rider on his horse, and yield to the arm movements, as far as needed, just as the horseman yields to the movements of his steed." Read the first page
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LESCHETIZKY used to say, "Sit easy and erect at the piano, like a good rider on his horse, and yield to the arm movements, as far as needed, just as the horseman yields to the movements of his steed." Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Read it if you're curious enough,
By BLee "bpslee" (HK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Leschetizky Method: A Guide to Fine and Correct Piano Playing (Paperback)
This book is not for the beginners just like Leschetizky never taught any beginners. The more advanced pianist may not take much interest in it either-- as the pedagogue used to say, I have no method. His method instead concentrated on phrasing and interpretation and musicality, explained his pupil Moiseiwitsch. So even if this book is authentic, it is not very instructive.Listen instead to his pupils, particularly Ignaz Friedman whom he observed to be technically better than himself. Simon Barere is perhaps even more awesome, but here Blumenfeld's and Anton Rubinstein's influence is equally strong though. Moiseiswitch and Horszowski are wonderful too, if Paderewski wasn't. We still have some fine historic recording of the padagogue himself which could tell you much more than any words or pictures could. Nonetheless, there are dozens of pictures showing hand positions for various chords etc presumably they were Lechetizsky's hands. The fingers so so curved that at times that the knails would hit the key instead! Moiseiwitsch did play with rather curved fingers, though not to that extent. Anton Rubinstein on the other hand, preferred the flat fingers. But Hofmann from this school didn't play with very flat fingers.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Solid .... but rather dull,
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This review is from: The Leschetizky Method: A Guide to Fine and Correct Piano Playing (Paperback)
This book was actually written not by the famous Leschetizky himself, but by his student Bree, and then later endorsed by the master. In any event, it is solid in the sense that it provides some basic finger exercises that are still useful and presents some basic good advice. The commentary is probably quite correct but generally does not really reveal anything new, neither in content nor in presentation. Perhaps the best part of the book are the illustrations of various hand positions. At the end there is also a perhaps historically interesting article by Paderewski. For finger exercises, I think Hanon is better and more complete, and for a method as such, have a look at Seymour Bernstein's '20 Lessons in Keyboard Choreography'.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for Intermediate Pianists,
By Mohamad Al-Dah (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Leschetizky Method: A Guide to Fine and Correct Piano Playing (Paperback)
Reading this book was informative to some extent, but disappointing in gereral. The exercises are very boring, and are pretty useless for the beginner. Relatively advanced pianists (Grade 8 and above) will find little in the book. The pictures are of an excellent quality, and are a definite guide, especially the ones about passing the thumb. A more well written book is "Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing" by Josef Lhevinne (ISBN: 0486228207). This book offers superior advice on improving one's playing, and can be used by all but the most competent pianist.
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