Menahem Pressler

Contents

• I: His Teaching
• 1. A Brief Biography
• 2. The Studio
• 3. Pressler's Early Training
• 4. The Debussy Competition
• 5. Opportunities in America
• 6. Bloomington
• 7. General Aspects of Pressler's Teaching
• 8. The Technical Approach
• 9. Principles of Expressive Performance
• 10. Guides for Practicing
• 11. Technical Helps
• 12. Pressler's Humor
• 13. Pressler at the Met: Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110
• 14. Pressler at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute
• II: The Music
• 15. Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 2 in C minor, S. 826
• 16. Bela Bartok, Out of Doors
• 17. Ludwig van Beethoven, Concerto No. 5 in E- flat major, Op. 73 "Emperor" Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 81a "Les adieux"
• 18. Johannes Brahms, Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 2
• Brahms, Trio in B Major, Op. 8
• 19. Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in E major, Op. 62 No.2
• Chopin, Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
• 20. Claude Debussy, Selected Preludes
• "Les collines d'Anacapri" (Bk. 1, No. 5)
• "Feux d'artifice" (Bk. 2, No. 12)
• Debussy, L'Isle Joyeuse
• 21. Joseph Haydn, Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:50
• 22. Franz Liszt, Apres une lecture du Dante
• 23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata in B-flat major, K. 281
• 24. Serge Prokofiev, Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83
• 25. Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la Nuit
• Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
• Ravel, Piano Trio in A minor
• 26. Franz Schubert, Fantasie in C Major, D. 760, "Wanderer"
• 27. Robert Schumann, Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
• Schumann, Kreisleriana, Op. 16
• 28. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Concerto in B-flat minor, Op. 23
• 29. Carl Maria von Weber, "Perpetual Motion" (Sonata in C major, Op. 24, Finale)
• Appendix A: Pressler's Musical Ancestry
• Appendix B: Lineage of Piano Teachers
• Appendix C: Tributes
• Appendix D: Studio Rosters (1955-2007)
• Bibliography
• Index of Compositions