"Commentaries on the Teaching of Pianoforte Technique" is a 1910 guide
to playing the piano by Tobias Matthay. Written as a supplement to
Matthay's definitive books "The Act of Touch" and "First Principles", it
contains further information on some of the more detailed areas and
complicated techniques. This volume is highly recommended for those who
have read Matthay's previous works and will be of utility to
intermediate players and students. "Contents include: The Principle of
Forearm Rotation", "Arm-vibration, etc.", "On Pianissimo Playing", "The
Merging of the Three Species of Touch-Instruction", "The use of Bad
Touch-forms", "The Artificial Legato-element", "The Distinction between
Fore Arm and Whole Arm Weight and Movement", etc. 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: An Analysis
And Synthesis Of Pianoforte Tone Production" (1903), "The First
Principles of Pianoforte Playing (1905)" and "Relaxation Studies"
(1908). 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.
