Hello everyone, I have been looking for a book for a long time whose title I cannot remember. I heard about it on television and it struck me. The subject of the book is supposedly a secret piano technique, passed down from master to student. One of the few topics I remember was a particular posture of the hand and especially the fingers, etc... I know that in this "masonic" chain, Liszt and Horowitz also appear at a certain point. Does anyone happen to know it? Thank you.
Neither have I ever heard of it. To be honest, Horowitz's hand position wouldn't exactly be an example to follow... But with him, it worked. I wonder how he managed to play the way he did with straight fingers.
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ttw
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Reply 4 by ttw
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...because, would Gould's posture be natural?
...and yet it worked with him
It would be nice to trace all these "incorrect" ( ) postures ...
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Reply 5 by Dino
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If you remember the TV program and the date, maybe there's some video on the tube...
Honestly, I don't really remember where I saw it; it must have happened a couple of months ago. This book immediately piqued my curiosity precisely because, having read about Horowitz's life and seen some footage of him, the subject matter developed could be at least plausible. This fact of having a very low seating position, elbows almost below the keyboard, and straight fingers has always amazed me a bit...
How is it possible that all these pianists have an "erroneous" setting?!? And yet many of them attended the conservatory, were followed by their teachers during the training period. How is it possible that no one ever had anything to say about it??
The only explanation I can give myself is that after graduating in their research (of sonorities), they arrived at assuming those positions.
Is that correct?
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It must also be said that, for example, in the States, courses are of a completely different nature compared to ours... also more "sporty" in terms of duration. Your Sisyphus speech fits perfectly
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Reply 10 by Chopin
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It cannot be "the failures of genius Horowitz" - Marital fictions, selfishness, musical limits of a great man of the century. "Horowitz" by Harold Schonberg, Rizzoli editions
I thank you Chopin for the suggestion but unfortunately that is not the book. Surely the book in question is not a novel but rather an essay, and Horowitz is cited as one of the last exponents of this chain that starts from very far away and which, from master to pupil, has been secretly passed down! I am almost going crazy trying to find this book, believe me!
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I haven't understood yet if it is the book that has revealed this "secret" ... or if it just tells of this technique and its revelation... and various intrigues, given that it is a novel...
But if it is a novel ... even the secret technique could be a product of the writer's imagination ... so, why all this interest?
In fact, as I have already written, it is not a novel at all. I rather think that the author has, based on studies and research, formulated this hypothesis with relative objective and more or less verifiable data.
