Artistic Piano Playing As Taught By Ludwig Deppe Together With Practical Advice On Questions Of Technique Scholars Choice Edition

Author : Fräulein Elisabeth Caland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330106419
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Artistic Piano Playing, Vol. 1 written by Fräulein Elisabeth Caland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Artistic Piano Playing, Vol. 1: As Taught by Ludwig Deppe "A knowledge of the thing to be achieved - a clear idea of what constitutes a beauty and what a blemish - cannot fail to be of service." - Herbert Spencer. "Piano-playing is mainly a matter of the mind, and not primarily of the muscles." - W. S. B.Mathews. Animated by recollections of Miss Amy Fay's "Music Study in Germany," I started for Berlin in the summer of 1899 with pleasant anticipations of possible music-study under the direction of Ludwig Deppe; therefore it was proportionately disconcerting to find, on arriving at that city, that it was too late, by some nine years, to avail myself of the coveted instruction. But the name continued to hold a fascination for me, and it was doubtless for this reason that, when glancing idly in a music-store window, my eye was caught by a little book bearing the title, "Die Deppe'sche Lehre des Klavierspiels." It proved to be tolerably stiff reading for a novice in German, but, nevertheless, I extracted therefrom quite enough to stimulate my already vivid interest in the subject, and to induce me to seek out the writer cf the book, upon whose shoulders it seemed the mantle of Deppe had fallen. Then followed eight months of earnest study, under the artistic control of Frl. Caland, wno, truly endowed with a double portion of her masters spirit, imparted to me the guiding principles of his system with a delightful enthusiasm which could not fail of its object. Therein I proved the truth of Goethes assertion that "the instruction which the true artist gives us opens the mind; for, where words fail him, deeds speak." And it is in grateful recognition of the inspiration and uplift which came to me through the teachings of those months that I now present the accompanying translation to English readers. If it be true that "genius is a kind of god-like insanity," then Deppe was no genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.