* Cooke, James Francis, Great Pianists on Piano Playing ( Philadelphia: Theo Presser Co., 1913 )

In an interview given to Elyse Mach ( Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves, Dover Books on Music ), Bolet extensively mentioned an obscure piece by Joseph Marx which was, according to Bolet's own words, his favorite among virtuoso concertos because of the enormous show of strength required from the soloist.

His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.

In 1973 he published the book Pianister i Sverige ( Pianists in Sweden, with a summary in English ), an overview based on a series of lectures in Swedish radio on the history of piano music in Sweden from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century.

Aside from his contributions to music journalism, he published 13 books, most of them on music, including The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present ( 1963, revised 1987 ) — pianists were a specialty of Schonberg — and The Lives of the Great Composers ( 1970 ; revised 1981, 1997 ) which traced the lives of major composers from Monteverdi through to modern times.

Pianists who have recorded the pieces include Imogen Cooper on Ottavo and Avie, Noël Lee on Disques Valois, András Schiff on Decca, Claudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel and Mitsuko Uchida on Philips, Wilhelm Kempff, Maria João Pires and Maurizio Pollini on Deutsche Grammophon, and Eliso Virsaladze on Live Classics ; the British performer Peter Katin and also the Belgian pianist Jos Van Immerseel have recorded them on a period ( early-nineteenth-century ) instrument.

In an interview given to Elyse Mach (" Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves "; Dover Books on Music ), Jorge Bolet said that the " Romantic Piano Concerto " by Joseph Marx was his favorite among the great virtuoso concertos because of the enormous show of strength required from the soloist.

Pianists who are serious about their work are likely to know the interesting material contained in Schubert's Sonatas.

" Sudden Mania to become Pianists created upon hearing Steinway's Pianos at the Paris Exposition.

Pianists born after Wittgenstein who for one reason or another have lost the use of their right hands, such as Leon Fleisher ( although he eventually recovered his right hand's abilities ) and João Carlos Martins, have also played works composed for him.

In his book The Great Pianists, former New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg describes Rubinstein's playing as that " of extraordinary breadth, virility and vitality, immense sonority and technical grandeur in which all too often technical sloppiness asserted itself.

* August 25 – September 5 – Darmstädter Ferienkurse held in Darmstadt, with lectures by Włodzimierz Kotoński, György Ligeti, Andrzej Markowski, Yoritsune Matsudaira, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Bo Wallner, and world premieres of Claude Baillif's Mouvements pour deux, Sylvano Bussotti's Piano Pieces for David Tudor, Cornelius Cardew's Two Books of Study for Pianists and Piano Piece 1959, Niccolo Castiglioni's Cangiati per pianoforte, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati's Interpolation: Mobile pour flûte, Mauricio Kagel's Transición II, Angelo Paccagnini's Canti brevi: secondo libro, and Stockhausen's Zyklus.

Pianists and arrangers included Bob Benson, Asa " Ace " Harris, Bill Doggett, Ray Tunia, and Harold Francis.

* Competition for Young Pianists " Cincuentenario de la Fundación Educacional Jrimián " ( 50th Anniversary of the Khrimian Educational Foundation ) awarded by the Asociación Cultural Armenia, in Lanús ( Buenos Aires ) in November 1980.

Harold C. Schonberg, in The Great Pianists, writes " the openings of the Hummel A minor and Chopin E minor concertos are too close to be coincidental ".

* The Art of Piano: Great Pianists of the 20th Century — Moiseiwitsch plays Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 ( excerpt ), Prelude in B minor Op. 32 ( the beginning contains commentary ) and speaks about a conversation he had with Rachmaninov.

Brendel helped choose the selections for Phillip's " Great Pianists of the 20th Century " issue of Kempff recordings, and wrote in the notes that Kempff " achieves things that are beyond him " in his " unsurpassable " recording of Liszt's first Legende, " St. Francis Preaching to the Birds.

Schubert, Die Forelle and Ständchen von Shakespeare ; Chopin, Meine Freuden and Mädchens Wunsch ; Schumann, Widmung and Frühlingsnacht ; Liszt, Liebestraum No. 3 ; Donizetti, Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor Great Pianists, Vol.

Pianists Clifford Curzon, Hans Richter-Haaser, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Julius Katchen each made fine records with Kertész, among which the Mozart concertos are particularly inspired.

Wood gained the title, Queen of the Ragtime Pianists, sometimes shared with junior fellow plunker Jo Ann Castle.

The paper, and the reactions to it are also discussed in Mark Lindsey Mitchell's Virtuosi: A Defense and a ( sometimes Erotic ) Celebration of Great Pianists.

* Mitchell, Mark Lindsey, Virtuosi: A Defense and a ( sometimes Erotic ) Celebration of Great Pianists, Indiana University Press, 2000.

Godowsky, the Pianists ' Pianist: A Biography of Leopold Godowsky.

With his wife, Lyubov Bruk, he formed a piano duo, some of whose recordings were included in the Philips and Steinway series Great Pianists of the 20th Century.

Pianists who are associated with this work include Gilbert Kalish, Easley Blackwood, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Stephen Drury, Marc-André Hamelin, Heather O ' Donnell, Herbert Henck, and most recently Jeremy Denk and Melinda Smashey Jones.

* 1994: The Windows PC boom and accompanying computer store growth began.

She began playing regularly at the Mudd Club and other venues with Jim Tisdall accompanying her on harp and Gittler guitar.

In 1966, Lichtenstein moved on from his much-celebrated imagery of the early 1960s, and began his Modern Paintings series, including over 60 paintings and accompanying drawings.

He remained at Denisovka until he was ten, when his father decided that he was old enough to participate in his business ventures, and Lomonosov began accompanying Vasily on trading missions.

Although it was presented to the world in 1965 with an accompanying scholarly book written by British Museum and Yale University librarians, historians of geography and medieval document specialists began to suspect that it might be a fake as soon as photographs of it became available, and chemical analyses have identified one of the major ink ingredients as a 20th-century artificial pigment.

Two days later, the militia and regulars began marching up the Rock River in pursuit of the British Band, with Governor Reynolds accompanying the expedition as a major general of militia.

The laity will only have noticed the accompanying change whereby on Sundays, the Mass liturgy ceased to be generally taken from the proper or common of the saint whose feast fell on that day, and began instead to be that of the Sunday.

A number of log houses began to be built, with the accompanying entrepreneurial activities that one might expect in an early settlement.

Gaye began singing at his father's church and in church revivals starting around the age of five, with his first public performance being a version of " Journey to the Sky " at a Kentucky church revival with his father accompanying him on piano.

The riot began when a car accompanying his motorcade — returning from one of his regular cemetery visits to his father-in-law's grave — accidentally struck two seven-year-old African American children, killing one boy.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland began accompanying the paper's delivery vans.

According to L. F. Rushbrook Williams, Shah began accompanying his father in his travels from a very young age, and although they both travelled widely and often, they always returned to England where the family made their home for many years.

In the mid-1890s they began selling Edison and Columbia phonographs and accompanying cylinder records.

Subtitled Der Film zum Buch vom Führer (" The film accompanying the Führer's book "), the movie is a grotesque farce about the events when, in 1983, German Stern magazine began to publish, with great fanfare, the 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake.

He began playing professionally accompanying silent film by 1917 and later at a casino in Colón, Panama.

Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan displayed considerable skill as a warrior and before he reached his teens began accompanying his father into battle.

It was while at high school that he began to get interested in the occult, which he had first indirectly encountered through reading Frank L. Baum's Oz books as a child, with their accompanying Rosicrucian philosophies.

They began a tour of the country's eastern provinces for two purposes: the king wanted to acquaint himself with their new subjects, and despite the unusualness of a consort accompanying the king further than the capital, Frederick William wanted to introduce the queen as well to their people.

Sunagawa soon began accompanying Vorilhon during his travels to Lima, Miami, Brazil, and Martinique.

Tharpe began performing at the age of four, billed as " Little Rosetta Nubin, the singing and guitar playing miracle ", accompanying her mother who played mandolin and preached at tent revivals throughout the South.

As a teen, David began accompanying his father to local dance clubs, where DJs let him take the microphone.

She began her career in professional wrestling in 1995, accompanying her husband Steve " Mongo " McMichael to the ring in World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ).

to Raw and Flair also began accompanying him to the ring while continuing to second Triple H. On January 20, 2003, Randy Orton joined Triple H, Flair, and Batista in attacking Scott Steiner to complete the group ( though the Evolution name would not be given until two weeks later ).

In autumn 1947, he began touring in Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic package, and from 1948 to 1953 he was accompanist for Ella Fitzgerald, and accompanying her in England in the Fall of 1948, developed a harmonic facility of extraordinary taste and sophistication.