Category: technique

What does it mean to speak about a pianistic tradition since Franz Liszt?

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach was one of the first documented piano pedagogues and his saying is famous: “don´t be so sticky with your fingers to the keyboard (“Man solle mit den Fingern nicht so kläbricht an den Tasten sein”)

Read the book of Alfred Kullak “Die Ästhetik des Klavierspiels”, which describes the development of teaching over the centuries.

“Die Ästhetik des Klavierspiels“

Alte Version mit Leseprobe. ENGLISH version.

my film about the comparison of piano techniques:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rocco with his unique dancing inserts whilst playing! See:

playing without seat standing:

Arpeggio is mor than just play notes of a chord one after the other

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio

The technical realisation must be optimized in service of music.
Also inside the arpeggio there is always one most important note which gets a bit more impulse. All most important notes are used to create a musical line – so the arpeggio is integrated in the music piece.