Selected Content from the February 1920 Edition of The Etude
The Indispensables in Pianistic Success
An Interview with the Eminent Piano Virtuoso JOSEF HOFMANN (The First Section of this Interview Appeared in The Etude Last Month) "In the art of piano playing we have much the same line of curve. At first… Read More
New Conceptions of Popular Music
We have to revise our notion of what constitutes “popular” music when we see the thirty-cent motion picture houses advertising orchestral programs composed largely of Tschaikovsky, Dvořák, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Grieg, Debussy and Massenet. A few years ago such an… Read More
The Etudes of Chopin and How They Ought to be Practiced
By I. PHILIPP Professor of Pianoforte Playing at the Paris Conservatoire At less than twenty years of age (October 20, 1829) Chopin wrote from Warsaw to his friend, Titus Woyciechowski, "I have composed an etude after my own… Read More