| Notes: Text in German. Minor shelf wear, rear cover is creased, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This book is valuable and stimulating in many ways. The author presents numerous basic principles for the interpretation of piano music, which should not be ignored in so-called free playing, but which can also serve to free oneself from mostly learned constraints. This is particularly important for young artists striving to develop their own artistic personality, as well as for those who may have been shaped by their teachers in the sense of a misunderstood fidelity to the original work, or even primarily by their teachers' own ideas. Furthermore, the explanations in this book prevent the efforts of many immature piano students to take eccentric celebrities as role models, whose playing styles should by no means be imitated. For centuries, great piano music has lived not only in the sheet music on which it was notated by the masters, but also through the changing styles of interpretation over time. Walter Fleischmann's interesting work shows limits that serious pianists should not exceed, but it also opens up a wealth of possibilities for serious interpretation for which there are no traditional notation options. |