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  2. List of former teachers at the Conservatoire de Paris

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    Louise Farrenc (Professor of Piano, 1842–1873) César Franck (Professor of Organ, 1872–1890) Eugene Gigout (Professor of Organ, 1911–1925) Alexandre Guilmant (Professor of Organ, 1896–1911) Antoine Marmontel (piano) Yves Nat (pianist, 1890–1956) Isidor Philipp (Professor of Piano, 1893–1934) Pierre Sancan (Professor of Piano, 1956 ...

  3. Social history of the piano - Wikipedia

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    The Taishō-era arist Nakamura Daizaburō painted The Piano in 1926, which depicts his fiancée dressed in a kimono and performing Robert Schumann's Träumerei on a Russian piano. [12] Playing the piano was adopted in Japan as part of domestic modernity, as opposed to the traditional and pre-modern conception of musicians as social outcasts.

  4. Piano history and musical performance - Wikipedia

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    The piano was evidently destroyed during the Second World War. Piano scholar Edwin Good (1986; see References below) has examined a very similar Streicher piano made in 1870, with the goal of finding out more about Brahms's instrument. This 1870 Streicher has leather (not felt) hammers, a rather light metal frame (with just two tension bars), a ...

  5. Mrs Mills - Wikipedia

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    The name "The Mrs. Mills Piano" was given to a vintage 1905 Steinway Vertegrand upright piano, frequently used by her at Abbey Road Studios in London, where she recorded. [6] The piano, with a characteristic out-of-tune honky-tonk sound, has remained in use at Abbey Road for over 50 years and was used in countless recordings made there ...

  6. List of child music prodigies - Wikipedia

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    Piano 5 Gave his first public recital at age five, became a music professor at age twelve. Elsie Hall: 1877 Piano 6 Prize winner, New South Wales 1883. "The Antipodean Phenomenon", Europe 1880s. Clara Haskil: 1895 Piano 5 Gave her first concert in Vienna in 1902. Otto Hegner 1876 Piano 8 Caused a sensation in London in 1888. [18] Cory Henry ...

  7. List of piano composers - Wikipedia

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    Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, 1917–1920) Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919) Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921) Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926) Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932) Romantic, Impressionist: Emile-Robert Blanchet: 1877: 1943: Swiss: Sergei Bortkiewicz: 1877: 1952: Ukrainian: York Bowen: 1884: 1961: English: Romantic: Frank Bridge: 1912: 1941: English: Late ...

  8. Van Cliburn - Wikipedia

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    Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (/ ˈ k l aɪ b ɜːr n /; July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013) [1] was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War.

  9. Piano pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Music education at NCPE, depicting a piano teacher with a student playing the piano and three fellow students observing Piano pedagogy is the study of the teaching of piano playing. Whereas the professional field of music education pertains to the teaching of music in school classrooms or group settings, piano pedagogy focuses on the teaching ...