Shawn’s Reviews > Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Godowsky, Hofmann, Lhevinne, Paderewski and 24 Other Legendary Performers > Status Update

xaver schwarenka, see his works
look at those old keyboardists, clementi et al their studies & ETUDES, esp Chopin, begin learning them, & u should ALWAYS PLAY MEMORY NOW ON

will wrap this up w/knowledge that I’ll never be even a pianist! i need to stop playing mechanical, mindless, inattentive, unconcerned & ignorant

interesting, many lessons, but 1) scales 2) Bach 3) technique, touch, detail, slow, ear-train, concentrate. Chopin is good for pianists; Godowsky was pretty darn exceptional in studies; hard unglnorous lives of virtuosos

This is a good book, randomly selected it (it popped up). I regularly need something to read electronically. Browsing bs is a waste of time. So I'lve got this one, but I also wanna have a SF on hand.