Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann

Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann

Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps historyâ€™s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopinâ€™s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elementsâ€”be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audienceâ€”within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over performing. But this wunderkind, whose admirers included Franz Liszt and music critic James Gibbons Huneker (who cheekily nicknamed Pachmann the â€œChopinzeeâ€), would by the turn of the century find his antics on the concert stage scorned by critics and out of fashion with listeners, burying his pianistic legacy.

In Chopinâ€™s Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann, the first biography ever of this remarkable figure, Edward Blickstein and Gregor Benko explore the private and public lives of this master pianist, surveying his achievements within the context of contemporary critical opinion and preserving his legacy as one of the last great Romantic pianists of his time. Chopinâ€™s Prophet paints a colorful portrait of classical piano performance and celebrity at the turn of the 20^th century while also documenting Pachmannâ€™s attraction to men, which ultimately ended his marriage but was overlooked by his audiences. As the authors illustrate, Pachmann lived in a radically different world of music making, one in which eccentric personality and behavior fit into a much more flexible, and sometimes mysterious, musical community, one where standards were set not by certified experts with degrees but by the musicians themselves. Detailing the evolution of concert piano playing style from the era of Chopin until World War I, Chopinâ€™s Prophet tells the fantastic and true story of an artist of and after his time.
Country USA
Brand Scarecrow Press
Manufacturer Scarecrow Press
Binding Hardcover
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ReleaseDate 2013-09-05
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Country	USA
Brand	Scarecrow Press
Manufacturer	Scarecrow Press
Binding	Hardcover
PartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
Height	9
Length	5.999988
Weight	1.9510910187
Width	1.06
ReleaseDate	2013-09-05
NumberOfItems	1

Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann

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