Roots and Methods

Roots and Methods

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The roots and methods of the Baltimore Piano School lies on the legendary Russian system of piano performance and pedagogy. What is the Russian system and why is it so famous? The foundations of the Russian system was made by giants such as L. Beethoven, K. Czerny and F. Liszt. Starting in the middle of the 19th century pianism in Russia began its rapid and intensive development. Safonov, Igumnov, Godowsky, Zverev, Ziloti, Rubenstein, Rachmoninov, and Scriabin were standing by the source of Russian pianism. All of them were very different and bright individuals. They brought to life the next generation of the very different and bright individuals and so forth.

Right now it it is not a secret that a Russian name on a concert announcement is always a guarantee of brilliant pianism, high inspiration and spirituality. In fact Russian pianists are winners of 75% of all international competitions.

So what is it?

A special secret, tradition, method, or something else? I would emphasize two main reasons for that success:

First, the Russian system is based on individuality.

Second, the technique never separates from the music's image or idea, plus everything is logically justified.

"First, the image (i.e. the meaning content, expression, the what is about), second, tone in time (the embodiment, the materialization of the image), and finally the techniques as a whole as a sum total of all means essential for solving the artistic problem of piano playing as such, i.e. mastery of musical movements of the performer and of the mechanism of the instrument. This is my general pattern of study."

~ Henrich Neughaus (1888-1964)

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