Menahem Pressler by Brown, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface: A Few Words Before Acknowledgments Part One: A Life in teaching

One: A Brief Biography Two: The Studio Three: Pressler’s Early Training Four: The Debussy Competition Five: Opportunities in America Six: Bloomington Seven: General Aspects of Pressler’s Teaching Eight: The Technical Approach Nine: Principles of Expressive Performance Ten: Guides for Practicing Eleven: Technical Instructions Twelve: Pressler’s Humor Thirteen: Pressler at the Met: Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 110 Fourteen: Pressler at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute

Part Two: The Music

Fifteen: Johann Sebastian Bach

Partita No. 2 in C Minor, s. 826

Sixteen: Béla Bartók

Out of Doors

Seventeen: Ludwig van Beethoven

Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, Emperor Sonata, Op. 81a, Les Adieux

Eighteen: Johannes Brahms

Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 2 Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8

Nineteen: Frédéric Chopin

Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 Nocturne in E Major, Op. 62, No. 2

Twenty: Claude Debussy

Prélude, Les Collines D’anacapri, Book 1, No. 5 Prélude, Feux D’artifice, Book 2, No. 12 L’isle Joyeuse

Twenty-One: Joseph Haydn

Sonata in C Major, Hob. xvi: 50

Twenty-Two: Franz Liszt

AprèS Une Lecture Du Dante

Twenty-Three: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 28l

Twenty-Four: Serge Prokofiev

Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83

Twenty-Five: Maurice Ravel

Gaspard De La Nuit Le Tombeau De Couperin Piano Trio in a Minor

Twenty-Six: Franz Schubert

Fantasie in C Major, D. 760, Wanderer

Twenty-Seven: Robert Schumann

Kreisleriana, Op. l6 Concerto in a Minor, Op. 54

Twenty-Eight: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23

Twenty-Nine: Carl Maria von Weber

Appendix A. Menahem Pressler’s Musical Ancestry Appendix B. Lineage of Pressler’s Piano Teachers Appendix C. Tributes to Pressler Appendix D. Pressler’s Studio Rosters, 1955–2008 Bibliography Index of Compositions Index of Names and Concepts