The Pianist

The Pianist
Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2000-09-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466837624

The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize—the Palme d'Or. Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.

The Pianist

The Pianist
Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1780222688

The bestselling memoir of a Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. 'We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close... riveting' OBSERVER On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside - so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, THE PIANIST is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling. 'The images drawn are unusually sharp and clear... but its moral tone is even more striking: Szpilman refuses to make a hero or a demon out of anyone' LITERARY REVIEW

The Pianist

The Pianist
Author: Władysław Szpilman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312244156

Suppressed for decades, this post-World War II memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived in Warsaw between 1939 and 1945, offers a testimony to the power of music and humanity.

The Pianist from Syria

The Pianist from Syria
Author: Aeham Ahmad
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501173502

"An astonishing yet true account of a pianist's life in war-torn Syria and his ultimate escape to Germany offers a deeply personal perspective on the most devastating refugee crisis of this century. Aeham Ahmad was born a second-generation refugee--the son of a blind violinist and carpenter who recognized Aeham's talent and taught him how to play piano and love music from an early age. When his grandparents and father were forced to flee Israel and seek refuge from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 1948, Aeham's family built a life in Yarmouk, an unofficial refugee camp to more than 160,000 Palestinians in Damascus. While waiting for the conflict to be resolved so that they could return to their homeland, they raised a new generation in Syria. But another fight overtook their asylum. Their only havens were in music and each other. In his escape from Syria, Aeham sought out a safe place for him and his family to call home and build a better future. Heart-wrenching though full of hope, and told in a raw and poignant voice, The Pianist from Syria is a gripping portrait of one man's search for a peaceful life and of a country being torn apart as the world watches in horror."--Jacket.

Notes from the Pianist's Bench

Notes from the Pianist's Bench
Author: Boris Berman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0300221525

Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedagogy. Ranging from such practical matters as sound, touch, and pedaling to the psychology of performing and teaching, this volume provides a master class for the performer, instructor, and student alike.

The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling

The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling
Author: Joseph Banowetz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253066751

" . . . a most precious book which every serious pianist and teacher must own." —Journal of the American Liszt Society Joseph Banowetz and four distinguished contributors provide practical suggestions and musicological insights on the pedaling of keyboard works from the 18th to the 20th century.

Beethoven the Pianist

Beethoven the Pianist
Author: Tilman Skowroneck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2010-05-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521119596

This book offers an insight into Beethoven's career, showing in well-documented detail the rise and decline of his powers as a performer.

The Pianist's Dictionary, Second Edition

The Pianist's Dictionary, Second Edition
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253047358

The Pianist's Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Prepared by Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts, this revised and expanded edition is a compendium of information gleaned from a combined century of piano teaching. Users will find helpful and clear definitions of musical and pianistic terms, performance directions, composers, pianists, famous piano pieces, and piano makers. The authors' succinct entries make The Pianist's Dictionary the perfect reference for compiling program and liner notes, studying scores, and learning and teaching the instrument.

The Pianist in the Dark

The Pianist in the Dark
Author: Michéle Halberstadt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1605987646

A stirring novel of love and music inspired by the life of pianist Maria-Theresa von Paradis, a blind virtuoso and contemporary of Mozart. Maria-Theresa von Paradis, the only daughter of the secretary of the empress of Austria, was an exceptionally gifted child. By the age of seventeen, she was a full-fledged virtuoso, playing for the royal family, acclaimed for her beauty and talent . . . and because she was blind. Her father, unable to accept her condition despite her soaring musical gifts, enlists the help of Franz Anton Mesmer, the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism, where Maria-Theresa discovers the passions and emotions from which her blindness had previously protected her. In the tradition of Sleeping with Schubert and The Cellist of Sarajevo, the novel is moving portrait of courage, loss, the elation of first love—and the pain of lost innocence.