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Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history's most notorious pianist.
Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin's works, Pachmann
embedded comedic elements-be it fiddling with his piano bench or
flirting with the audience-within his classic piano recitals to
alleviate his own anxiety over performing. But this wunderkind,
whose admirers included Franz Liszt and music critic James Gibbons
Huneker (who cheekily nicknamed Pachmann the "Chopinzee"), would by
the turn of the century find his antics on the concert stage
scorned by critics and out of fashion with listeners, burying his
pianistic legacy. In Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir
de Pachmann, the first biography ever of this remarkable figure,
Edward Blickstein and Gregor Benko explore the private and public
lives of this master pianist, surveying his achievements within the
context of contemporary critical opinion and preserving his legacy
as one of the last great Romantic pianists of his time. Chopin's
Prophet paints a colorful portrait of classical piano performance
and celebrity at the turn of the 20th century while also
documenting Pachmann's attraction to men, which ultimately ended
his marriage but was overlooked by his audiences. As the authors
illustrate, Pachmann lived in a radically different world of music
making, one in which eccentric personality and behavior fit into a
much more flexible, and sometimes mysterious, musical community,
one where standards were set not by certified experts with degrees
but by the musicians themselves. Detailing the evolution of concert
piano playing style from the era of Chopin until World War I,
Chopin's Prophet tells the fantastic and true story of an artist of
and after his time.
Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history's most notorious pianist.
Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin's works, Pachmann
embedded comedic elements-be it fiddling with his piano bench or
flirting with the audience-within his classic piano recitals to
alleviate his own anxiety over performing. But this wunderkind,
whose admirers included Franz Liszt and music critic James Gibbons
Huneker (who cheekily nicknamed Pachmann the "Chopinzee"), would by
the turn of the century find his antics on the concert stage
scorned by critics and out of fashion with listeners, burying his
pianistic legacy. In Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir
de Pachmann, the first biography ever of this remarkable figure,
Edward Blickstein and Gregor Benko explore the private and public
lives of this master pianist, surveying his achievements within the
context of contemporary critical opinion and preserving his legacy
as one of the last great Romantic pianists of his time. Chopin's
Prophet paints a colorful portrait of classical piano performance
and celebrity at the turn of the 20th century while also
documenting Pachmann's attraction to men, which ultimately ended
his marriage but was overlooked by his audiences. As the authors
illustrate, Pachmann lived in a radically different world of music
making, one in which eccentric personality and behavior fit into a
much more flexible, and sometimes mysterious, musical community,
one where standards were set not by certified experts with degrees
but by the musicians themselves. Detailing the evolution of concert
piano playing style from the era of Chopin until World War I,
Chopin's Prophet tells the fantastic and true story of an artist of
and after his time.
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