Your Loving Nell - Notes From Vienna And Paris Music Studios (1904) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PIANO EXERCISES note.?Whoever glances at the following exercises will be impressed with the truth of an assertion once made by Jan Kubelik, the famous violin virtuoso: " Only those who long intensely to be great musicians ever become such. It must be something more than a mere desire. Many people say, 'Oh, I should like to be a great musician.' That is nothing. They will not amount to anything. But the man who is possessed with such a yearning that it hurts him, and haunts him, and keeps him awake nights, and makes him forget his meals?he will succeed." Only the " yearning " that " hurts " could impel one to follow faithfully these Leschetiszky exercises after one has already worked many years and attained supposed proficiency. Two months at these and at nothing else is the minimum time even the most advanced artists are required to work with an under teacher before Leschetiszky himself will give a lesson. Players already successful before the public and well-known, one and all, must knuckle down very literally to thisminute work before the master will receive them. But the majority must keep at it many months, and always shadowed by the uncertainty of ultimate success. This ever-recurring doubt would cause them to give up were it not for that perpetual " yearning " that " hurts."?M. W.] EXERCISES GIVEN BY FRAU BREE FIRST EXERCISE A. Five notes pressed down at once. B. Play one finger at a time, holding the other four down. Move wrist up and down, to see if it is loose. C. Strike each finger five times legato, with round, full tone, and five times staccato. SECOND EXERCISE y. Holding the third, fourth, and fifth notes down. B. Hold four notes down?all but the one being struck. Play each two notes many times. THIRD EXERCISE 3=: Hold all n...