"No one will buy this, because no one is interested in these little pieces".
Emil Gilels didn't want to make this recording that soon became a landmark not only for Gilels but for the entire piano literature.
With the 66 pieces that form the 10 books of the Lyric Pieces, nearly all short or very short …
This blog takes its name from a monumental treaty of piano technique written in 1905 by Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (1873-1945), The Natural Piano-Technic, that had vast echo and widespread diffusion in all Europe.
The treaty falls into the heated controversy on the analysis of the piano technique occurred at the …
A shock.
A twenty-four years old canadian boy, coming therefore from an outlying musical culture, inflicts a blow at the very heart of the world-renowned pianistic institution, the Moscow "Tchaikovsky" Conservatory, cradle of a pianistic school and a tradition that churns out on repeat worldwide famous virtuoso concert pianists.
It's the year 1957, Glenn …
The Erlking
Who rides so lately through night and wind?
It's the father with his child;
He's got the boy in his arm,
He holds him safely, he keeps him warm.
"My son, why do you hide your face so anxiously?"
"Don't you see the Erlking, father?
The Erlking with crown and coat?"
"My son, it's a streak …
Piano was invented in Italy, but it replaced the harpsichord thanks to Germany and England. Muzio Clementi, who started the specific teaching of the instrument, was born in Rome but worked in England. Ferruccio Busoni, ruler of the concert scene, was born in Empoli but worked in Germany. Only in the twentieth century appeared the first Italian who could compete with the most important pianists of other nations: it was …