This vintage book contains a selection of effective exercises that can
be done on a daily basis to improve piano playing, by seminal English
pianist Tobias Matthay. Coupled with simple instructions and expert
tips, these daily repetitions will prove invaluable to both beginner and
seasoned player alike. 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: "General Directions", "First Daily Exercises, for fullest
extensions", "Second Daily Exercise, for horizontal freedom", "Third
Daily Exercise, for repetition on double notes", "Fourth Daily Exercise,
for closest position arpeggio", "Some Extra Technics", "On the Fullest
Contraction", "Sustained Notes Exercise", 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.
