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    The Pianist's First Music Making - For use in Conjunction with Tobias Matthay's "The Child's First Steps" in Piano Forte Playing - Book II
    The Pianist's First Music Making - For use in Conjunction with Tobias Matthay's "The Child's First Steps" in Piano Forte Playing - Book II
    The Pianist's First Music Making - For use in Conjunction with Tobias Matthay's "The Child's First Steps" in Piano Forte Playing - Book II
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    The Pianist's First Music Making - For use in Conjunction with Tobias Matthay's "The Child's First Steps" in Piano Forte Playing - Book II

    By Tobias Matthay

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    Originally written to be read in conjunction with Matthay's “The Child's First Steps”, this book aims to offer young children and beginner piano players a series of exercises that will prove invaluable to their playing and allow them to proficiently play their first pieces of music. 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: “Weight-Touch with Arm Sideways”, “Weight-Touch with First Turned Over, Knuckles Up”, “Weight-Touch with Fingers Closed Together”, “Weight-Touch with Fingers Opened Out”, “Rotatory Exertions and Relaxations at Alternate Sides of the Hand”, 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 dateSep 17, 2020
    ISBN9781528766913
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      The Pianist's First Music Making - For use in Conjunction with Tobias Matthay's "The Child's First Steps" in Piano Forte Playing - Book II - Tobias Matthay

      THE PIANIST’S FIRST

      MUSIC MAKING

      BOOKII.

      TOBIAS MATTHAY

      AND

      FELIX SWINSTEAD

      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

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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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 volume that influenced piano pedagogy throughout the English-speaking world. So

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