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The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff
- Editor: Gilen, Ruth
The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff
- Editor: Gilen, Ruth
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"[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer." —Artur Schnabel
"This collection of [Wolff's] writings and letters should bear ample testimony to a musician who happily combined the artist, the teacher, the musicologist, and the charm and integrity of a human being." —Alfred Brendel
"Konrad Wolff writes about music with the verve and enthusiasm of a great teacher who has never lost his sense of music as an adventure. To read him is to enter into a lively dialogue with a superior musical mind and a buoyant spirit." —Richard Goode
This collection provides elegant and thorough portraits of an important 20th-century performer and lover of music, as well as of his greatest influences.
Contents
- Contents (as printed in first-edition book from Greenwood Press)
- Prologue, Leon Fleisher
- Foreword, Russell Sherman
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Biographical Sketch
- Part I: Composers
- Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
- Bach (1685-1750)
- His Last Work
- Spirit, Style, and Forms
- Bach-Reger
- Brandenburg Concertos for Piano Duet
- Mozart (1756-1791)
- Quintet in D Major, K. 593
- Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Several Perspectives
- Mostly Beethoven
- On Beethoven's Trills
- Bagatelles, Op. 119
- The Ninth Symphony, Op. 125
- Schubert (1797-1828)
- Schubert's Reaction to Beethoven
- Schubert's "L'istesso Tempo"
- Schubert's String Quintet in C: A Misplaced Repeat Sign?
- Schumann (1810-1856)
- On Titles and Verbal Descriptions in Music
- Liszt (1811-1886)
- Beethovenian Dissonances in Liszt's Piano Works
- Liszt's Approach to Piano Technique
- Stravinsky
- A Modern Faust
- Part II: Letters
- From:
- Paul Badura-Skoda; Review of Interpretation on the Piano - What We can Learn from Schnabel
- Alfred Brendel
- Paul Henry Lang
- Rudof Serkin
- To:
- Leon Fleisher
- Artur Schnabel
- To and From:
- A Colleague
- Sviatoslav Richter
- Part III: Miscellany
- Christmas Music
- Music Appreciation
- Authenticity
- The Beginnings of Cyclic Form
- Bach's Dedication to King Frederick
- August Halm
- Observations
- On Teaching
- On Music an Musicians
- A Lesson in Writing
- Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782): Siciliano in F-Sharp Minor
- Part IV: The Brendel-Wolff "Debate"
- The "Debate"
- Addendum by Alfred Brendel
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- A photographic essay follows
