 | Karl Friedrich Ludwig Nohl - 1880 - 506 pagina’s
...representation, brilliant scenery, and the hearty applause from the Prussians present after the overture. been also the greatest composers, but how did they play. Not like the present-day pianists, who only run up and down the keyboard with passages learnt off by heart. Tusch... | |
 | Oscar George Theodore Sonneck - 1967 - 278 pagina’s
...will hear what they say of his playing. It always has been acknowledged that the greatest pianists were also the greatest composers, but how did they play? Not like the pianists of to-day, who only run up and down the keyboard with passages they have learned by heart — putch, putch, putch!... | |
 | Harold C. Schonberg - 1987 - 532 pagina’s
...own music!). He told Tomaschek in 1814 that "it has been known that the greatest piano players were the greatest composers; but how did they play? Not like the pianists of today, who only run up and down the keyboard with long-practiced passagework, putsch, putsch, putsch! What does... | |
 | Alexander Wheelock Thayer - 1992 - 636 pagina’s
...for half a year and then let us hear what will be said of his playing. All this signifies nothing. It has always been known that the greatest pianoforte...who prance up and down the keyboard with passages which they have practised — putsch, putsch, putsch; — what does that mean? Nothing! When true pianoforte... | |
 | Glenn Stanley, Lewis Lockwood, Christopher Reynolds - 1998 - 284 pagina’s
...24. Quotation cited from Thayer-Forbes, p.185. Beethoven remarked to Johann Wenzel Tomaschek in 1814: "It has always been known that the greatest pianoforte...who prance up and down the keyboard with passages which they have practised — putsch, putsch, putsch; — what does that mean? Nothing! When true pianoforte... | |
 | Heinrich Schenker - 2000 - 130 pagina’s
...1985, p. 449. Beethoven to Tomaschek, 1814: "It has always been acknowledged that the greatest pianists were also the greatest composers, but how did they play? Not like the pianists of today, who only run up and down the keyboard with passages they have learned by heart—putch, putch, putch! What... | |
 | Stephen Rumph - 2004 - 307 pagina’s
...virtuoso )ohann Wenzel Tomaschek hints at Beethoven's motivation in writing out all these cadenzas: It has always been known that the greatest pianoforte...who prance up and down the keyboard with passages which they have practiced — putsch, putsch, putsch; — what does that mean? Nothing! When true pianoforte... | |
 | Michael Lewis, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, Lisa Feldman Barrett - 2008 - 865 pagina’s
...improvisation. Beethoven was a great improviser, and had no time for musicians who could not improvise: It has always been known that the greatest pianoforte...who prance up and down the keyboard with passages that they have practised — putsch, putsch, putsch; what does that mean? Nothing! (Beethoven, quoted... | |
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It has always been known that the greatest pianoforte players were also the greatest composers; but how did they play? Not like the pianists of today who prance up and down the key-board with passages in which they have exercised themselves,-putsch, putsch,... 