Now available from Amadeus Press...

384 pp, 36 musical examples, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", paperback

ISBN: 1-57467-026-3

$19.95, plus shipping and handling

Publication Date: April 1997

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Revolutionary piano pedagogue Abby Whiteside (1881-1956) influenced generations of pianists in America and elsewhere. Whiteside’s pioneering approach to piano technique stood apart from the mainstream of piano teaching in her day, and her ideas remain essential to piano pedagogy even now. As a teacher, Whiteside encouraged students to express the basic emotional rhythm of the music, and her understanding of the mechanics of piano playing enabled them to avoid the strains and injuries often experienced by pianists. Indispensables of Piano Playing (1955) first laid out her unique approach. Mastering the Chopin Etudes and Other Essays (1969) applies her principles to the performance of the Chopin Etudes and to other challenges facing pianists and their teachers.

This reprint of the two long-out-of-print works has been eagerly awaited by teachers and students of piano music in many countries. At last Whiteside’s ideas will be accessible to new as well as to longtime disciples of this devoted and brilliant teacher of piano.

About the Author:

Abby Whiteside (1881–1956) lectured and taught piano at several universities and colleges, including the University of Oregon, New York University, the University of Chicago, Mills College, and the Eastman School of Music. Robert Helps and Morton Gould were among her private students.