Identifier: pianomasteryseco00brow (find matches)
Title: Piano mastery, second series; talks with master pianists and teachers.
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Brower, Harriette, 1869-1928
Subjects: Piano
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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o. We are learning to tryand find the meaning and significance of musicitself. XXIIRAFAEL JOSEFFY BY SOME OF HIS PUPILS The name Rafael Joseffy has long beenone to conjure with, whether in Europe orAmerica, whether as pianist or as pedagogue.He was by birth an Hungarian, itself a factof musical significance. He had studied withTausig and Liszt, and when he came toAmerica, in 1879, in the flush of youthful mas-tery of his instrument, he created a furore. Hewas at that time a marvelous virtuoso; he de-veloped later into a poetic genius of the piano. It would require a readier pen than mine tofitly describe either the manner of playing, orthe teaching methods of this piano conqueror.He had many pupils and followers during hislong residence among us, and his influence overthe development of music in America was im-portant. As the years passed he became moreand more a thinker along the lines of musiceducation, as is evidenced by his two valuableworks on piano technic. These books prove 242
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Rafael Joseffy Rafael Joseffy 243 how carefully he worked out technical prob-lems. Technic for the piano is such an individualthing. In a sense it must be applied differentlyto each pupil. This enlists all the resources ofthe teacher, since the mentality of the studentis varied in every case. And if the teachermust adapt his instruction to fit each and everyindividual, so, on the side of the pupil, therewill be found every shade of comprehensionand receptivity. I have been able to confer with several ofthe American pupils of Rafael Joseffy, andwhat they have to say will be of deep interestto pianists and teachers. Rose Wolf Mme. Rose Wolf, who was the masters as-sistant for about fifteen years, brought to herwork a wide experience of masters and meth-ods. Born in Russia, a student in the Rubin-stein Conservatory, under the famous pianist,she also studied with Klindworth and Schar-wenka in Berlin, and with Dr. William Masonand A. K. Virgil in New York. In fact shehas investigated all m

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