("Music is best when the heart and lips (mouth) speak together.")

Questions in Style, Interpretation, Expression
and Technic of Pianoforte Playing

SERIES XII

vladimir de pachmann

1.What does originality in pianoforte playing really mean?
2.State something of the evils of the forcing methods of training applied to young children.
3.Have the compositions of the most original composers been the most enduring?
4.Name seven of the most original composers for the pianoforte.
5.Must the pupil continually help himself?
6.What is considered the most difficult scale to learn?
7.Is a great virtuoso obliged to practice years in order to secure results?
8.How may piano study be compared with the polishing of beautiful jewels?
9.Tell what characteristics a great teacher must have.
10.What lies at the foundation of pianistic greatness?

MAX PAUER

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