Burkhard
Muth, Theodor Leschetizky--der bedeutendste
Klavierlehrer, den die Welt je gesehen hat?:
Eine Einführung in Leben, Werk und Wirken
des Pädagogen, Pianisten und Komponisten
(Giessen: Musikverlag Burkhard Muth, 2003)
Theodor
Leschetizky's credo was "No art without
life, no life without art." He was a pianist,
composer, and teacher of more than a thousand
piano students. The list of his most well-known
students includes: Artur Schnabel, Ignacy Jan
Paderewski, Elly Ney, Mieczyslaw Horszowsky,
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Marl Hambourg, Benno Moisewitsch
Paul Wittgenstein, and Leschetizky's wife Annette
Essipoff. In 2000, Janos Cegledy, president
of the Leschetizky Society of Japan stated that
"These days, almost all pianists have some
link to Leschetizky."
These credits help to answer the question Burkhard
Muth asks in his title: Yes, Leschetizky was
the most significant piano teacher the world
has seen. |