Heinrich Neuhaus Professions : Pianist Born : April 12, 1888 Died : October 10, 1964 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Heinrich Neuhaus Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself Heinrich Neuhaus finding-yourself It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred. Heinrich Neuhaus piano mean reality I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance. Heinrich Neuhaus important trying order Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze. Heinrich Neuhaus eye clouds thinking Similar Authors Arthur Rubinstein pianist Arthur H pianist Anton Rubinstein pianist Andre Previn pianist Alice Herz-Sommer pianist Alfred Brendel pianist All Authors
