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The Art of Piano Playing - A Scientific Approach by George Kochevitsky
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Memoirs of a Piano Pedagogue: George Kochevitsky 1902-1993
Considered by some the greatest piano pedagogue of our time, Kochevitsky wasn't widely acknowledged as such in his lifetime. When he was introduced to photographer Albert Squillace in 1986 as a potential portfolio subject, it was because of the character in his face, not for any recognition of his life's work. Squillace, met an expatriate Russian with a somewhat sketchy command of English, living in a studio apartment dominated by two grand pianos on the upper west side of Manhattan. Only after several photographic sittings did Kochevistky open up and, unprompted, begin to talk about his former life in Russia. It was an astonishing, if disjointed account: a comfortable, middle-class childhood with idyllic summers at the family's summer estate; three years imprisonment in a concentration camp when the Bolsheviks came to power; intensive classical piano studies at the musical conservatories in Moscow and Leningrad; forced performances as part of a traveling troupe of "artistes" sent in boxcars thousand of miles across Russia to entertain enslaved workers on the trans-Siberian railroad; loving references to his mother, to whom he felt he owed everything (and fond memories of their beloved cat, Sabakin); more hardship