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    Four Daily Exercises (First Set of Occasional Technics) - For Advanced Students and Artists
    Four Daily Exercises (First Set of Occasional Technics) - For Advanced Students and Artists
    Four Daily Exercises (First Set of Occasional Technics) - For Advanced Students and Artists
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    Four Daily Exercises (First Set of Occasional Technics) - For Advanced Students and Artists

    By Tobias Matthay

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    This vintage book contains a selection of effective exercises that can be done on a daily basis to improve piano playing, by seminal English pianist Tobias Matthay. Coupled with simple instructions and expert tips, these daily repetitions will prove invaluable to both beginner and seasoned player alike. Tobias Augustus Matthay (1858 – 1945) was an English pianist, composer, and teacher. He was taught composition while at the Royal Academy of Music by Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Sterndale Bennett, and he was instructed in the piano by William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. Other notable works by this author include: “The Act Of Touch In All Its Diversity” (1903), “The First Principles of Pianoforte Playing (1905)” and “Relaxation Studies” (1908). Contents include: “General Directions”, “First Daily Exercises, for fullest extensions”, “Second Daily Exercise, for horizontal freedom”, “Third Daily Exercise, for repetition on double notes”, “Fourth Daily Exercise, for closest position arpeggio”, “Some Extra Technics”, “On the Fullest Contraction”, “Sustained Notes Exercise”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateAug 6, 2020
    ISBN9781528766883
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      Four Daily Exercises (First Set of Occasional Technics) - For Advanced Students and Artists - Tobias Matthay

      Four Daily Exercises

      (First Set of Occasional Technics)

      for

      Advanced Students and Artists

      [PAUL SNYDER

      By

      TOBIAS MATTHAY

      WINTHROP ROGERS EDITION

      Sole Selling Agents:

      BOOSEY & HAWKES, LTD., LONDON

      Copyright © 2017 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

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      Tobias Matthay

      Tobias Augustus Matthay was born on 19th February 1858, in Clapham, Surrey, England. He was an English pianist, teacher and composer.

      Matthay's parents originally came from northern Germany and eventually became naturalised British subjects. He studied composition at the 'Royal Academy of Music' (London) under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and Arthur Sullivan, and piano with William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. Matthay served as a sub-professor there from 1876 to 1880, and became an assistant professor of pianoforte in 1880, before being promoted to professor in 1884.

      Alongside Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen (both composers and music teachers), he founded the Society of British Composers in 1905. This organisation was established with the aim of protecting the interests of British composers and to provide publication, promotion and performance opportunities. It was disbanded thirteen years later, in 1918. Matthay remained at the Royal Academy of Music until 1925, when he was forced to resign because McEwen – his former student who was then the Academy's Principal – publicly attacked his teaching.

      In 1903, after over a decade of observation, analysis, and experimentation, Matthay published The Act of Touch, an encyclopaedic

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