Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Musical Traditions That Hide in Shellac
2. From Poland
3. "Music begins where technique leaves off"
4. 2,800 Concerts
5. From Old Russia
6. Encroaching Modernism
7. From Beethoven to Hitler
8. In Safety, Down Under
9. Exile
10. Chopin on the Nile
11. The Piano According to Tiegerman
12. The Piano According to Friedman
Appendix A: Friedman's Repertoire
Appendix B: Discography
Appendix C: Friedman's and Tiegerman's Compositions
Appendix D: Friedman's Edition of Chopin's Piano Works
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

Allan Evans is the founder of Arbiter of Cultural Traditions and has published more than 150 recordings by historic interpreters. He is editor (with Mark Mitchell) of Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century (IUP, 2005). Evans teaches at the Mannes College of Music, New York. He lives in New York.

Reviews

"Of great interest to pianists and their audiences ... the accounts of lessons with Friedman are particularly riveting." Kenneth Hamilton, Birmingham University "A remarkable and historic book that delivers an intimate and thorough portrait of the artist." Kenneth Cooper, Manhattan School of Music "There was an early archaeologist in the first decades of the 15th century by the name of Ciriaco d'Ancona. When asked what he was doing, he replied: 'I wake the dead.' Allan Evans could claim the same. It is wonderful, how many hidden testimonies he rescues from oblivion!" Ernst Gombrich