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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 2-1-1902 Volume 20, Number 02 (February 1902) Winton J. Baltzell Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Baltzell, Winton J.. "Volume 20, Number 02 (February 1902)." , (1902). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/467 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOLUME 20 FEBRUARY NO. 2 1902 © U #1.50 FOR THE TEACH ER.STUDENT PRICE a PEfC AND LOVER OF MUSIC FIFTEEN YEAR THEO.PRESSER PUBLISHER.PHILADA.PA. CENTS THE ETUDE 41 the E T U D e HNE^WORKS H. B. STEVENS*COMPANY CONTENTS MUSIC FOR Educational Works PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS OF MUSIC G. SCHIRMER PUBLISHED BY “THE ETUDE,” - February, 1902 211 TR.EMONT STREET. - - BOSTON NEW VOR-K The John Church Company Of Easter« Palm Sunday CINCINNATI. CHICAGO. NEW YORK. F£Iix Borowski, director of composition in Chicago Musical College. Grieg said, in 1894. that Mr. b£f- autfjrma, carols, LONDON. LEIPSIC GREAT VALUE. MUSICAL LITERATVRE of*the gr^t^as?^\”^certTin?y tjeingifulfUledl.0^^60^ Songs, Etc. COMPOSITIONS OF MR. BOROWSKI. PIANO SOLOS. The Choice of Technic for a C Routine in Piano-Playing’ II.' Value of I A LIST OF IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING WORKS Pupils. F. S. Law. Children’s^ Page. Tho TemlenciesCof ^Musk? 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CHICAGO; Sand 6 Washington Street. 42 T R E ETUDE ■ WITHIN REACH OF ALL WM. A. POND & CO. W. J. DYER & BRO-, SAINT PAULJ MUSIC TEACHERS MUSIC PUBLISHERS. DEALERS. AND IMPORTERS PRIZES SIX SACRED SONGS 148 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NEW PIANO MUSIC .C^S^wourpH-blk NEW SOPRANO SONGS LIGHT CONCERT OR RECITAL 5 EDOUARD ZELDENRUST ON THE fingers, will have to work hours to accomplish a NEW CONTRALTO SONGS stretch that in the first-named case is a birthright. TRAINING OF AN ARTIST. If I had a hand built to play the piano, a born tg^sagre not bother so much about ASHFORDS ORGAN INSTRUCTOR 1 ‘ WiilRT“,k With You' My Lad> (Poem b: j* j* S * ; the greatest difference, after all, r small, is the degree of energy and “This morning,” said Zeldenrust, “some one told how great he may be. The very fact that one finger NEW SACRED SONGS a of the possessor. A man with a hand me that I look like d’Albert; at noon some one else is weaker than another makes one consider it, and ; of Liszt, one that could stretch told me that I look like Joseffy; this evening you there, too, is the old verity that nothing is more n C to G,—twelve notes,—has a great advantage. tell me that I look like Rosenthal. Now, whom do difficult than to put the thumb under the finger. But take, for instance, the hands of many other I resemble?” Mechanism is a necessary evil; you cannot do away great pianists, whom it is needless to name for the “Yourself most of all,” was the answer, “and after either with the idea or thought of it in playing. fact that they are familiar to you, and the pos¬ that the other three,” which is perfectly true. The sessors of a well-nigh faultless mechanism, and what pianist has his own individuality strongly marked; do you find? That they have hands comparatively he is less self-assertive than Rosenthal, more genial NEW OCTAVO MUSIC small. And how have they gained that finished than d’Albert, a good many years younger than mechanism? By work directed by constant thought Joseffy, and in personal appearance he resembles all and by intelligence. If a thing cannot be done in one way, it must be done in another. Very well; A native of Amsterdam, his father, to give him a study out the way your hand can do it best. The broader view of art, sent him to Cologne in his early very necessity of having to study out the ‘how’ to s of the youngest, NEW THEORETICAL WORKS do things makes every subsequent effort easier. is at the conserva- “Of necessity, and by a fortunate provision as i recognized to the well, early youth is the time of intense application scholarship, which, to the study of mechanism—fortunate because of the s more convenient, fact that in youth, before the mind is developed, se the money that such study is less irksome. NEW VOCAL METHODS with eagerness to se his hopes. Just ACQUISITION OF MECHANISM. l my father “But later, in the case of the developed artist, it died. It was to me a terrible shock, and a profound stunts the mind to give so much time to mechanism. regret that I could not show him the fruits of what I well recall a conversation that I had with Carl Raymond’s Cabinet Organ Instructor he had done for me. On that account I have always Heyman, a man whose success was unrivaled, and felt more fully my duty to myself in my art.” who was regarded as one of the greatest of pianists, A Hollander, Zeldenrust has many of the national not only in my own opinion, but that of other virtu¬ By LOUIS RAYMOND characteristics strongly accentuated, but the key¬ osi. For twenty years his brilliant career has been note of his development is an acute observation. cut short, and he has been an inmate of an insane- He has lived and studied music, outside his native asylum in Holland. Then in the fulness of his ^sSSSsaSP country, in Germany and France; has lived four powers, I went to ask his advice in Cologne. In Price, in boards. $1.50 years in England, and also in Italy. In each he has answer to the question about practice to get mechan¬ grown to know the people, and has analyzed national ism, he said: traits and characteristics. He takes things earnestly ‘“All that the artist has to practice every day in SUNDAY READINGS and thoughtfully. He has reached some sage con¬ this direction is a few scales: play scales for an hour; clusions. When the question was put to him late that is all that is required. But he should not do in our conversation—“Is your development due to any more mechanical work than that.’ PIANOFORTE continued study or to observation ?”—his answer “How many of those men who devote hours and was: “I have read a good deal, but it has been hours a day to mechanism can be accounted for By ALBERT W. BERG more observation and experience.” when the hour for artistic demonstration arrives! He has seen much; his associations have been They disappear. Without heart people come to noth¬ varied. Through his knowledge of men and things, ing. Life has a good deal to do with it; education aided by acute powers of observation, he has broad¬ makes the artist to a great extent. The struggles ened his mind and developed his ideas. In the case of life, as well, help make the artist and form his of Zeldenrust we have then to deal with the observer, Edouard Zeldenrust. character. You have to struggle and to suffer in the man of practical experience. And this is what order to develop. “As to education, I have read a good deal, but it he says to students on the subjects of: mechanism “But persons go too far in the pursuit of mechan¬ has been more observation and experience. I have in piano-playing—the cultivation of muscular de¬ ism in playing. The man to be blamed most for lived in different countries and studied the people, velopment, the forming of taste and aiding of this is Liszt. This genius, who did so many beautiful and that is the best education, after all. powers of expression, ensemble study, the compara¬ things, indirectly inspired other people to be ma¬ tive merits of the French and German schools of chines. Development of the Musculab System.

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