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Title: Piano mastery, second series; talks with master pianists and teachers.
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Brower, Harriette, 1869-1928
Subjects: Piano
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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on his many valuable contribu-tions to musical literature, we do not forgethe was a brilliant pianist and considered a greatteacher. He had the gift of imparting, andnumbered among his students some of excep-tional talent; musicians who are now makingan honorable career in the profession. In regard to MacDowelFs ideals of teachingand piano study, no one could speak with moreknowledge and authority than Mrs. MacDow-ell herself, who studied very seriously with thecomposer for four years. She has been will-ing to give some of her valuable time, betweenlecture recital engagements, to a conference onthese subjects, which is here set down with allpossible accuracy. I began to study the piano when I wasten, though I had picked out many little thingsfor myself before that time, began Mrs. Mac-Dowell. My first and only teacher inAmerica was a favorite aunt, who, owing tochanges of fortune, had come to New Yorkfrom her home in the South. She was halfFrench, a Jumel,—doubtless one of the orig-
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Photograph by Davis <t San ford Edward MacDowfll Edward Macdowell, as Teacher 127 inal family—and was really a remarkablewoman. She was a fine musician, and was ablewithin one year to make a place for herselfhere, and obtain a large fee for lessons, some-thing unusual for a woman to do in those earlydays. 4My aunt evidently felt I had some talentthat was worth while cultivating, for she tookme in hand and taught me thoroughly, for fouryears. After that I worked by myself for sev-eral years, until, under stress of circumstances,it was decided for me to make music my pro-fession, and I went abroad to continue mystudies. My goal was Frankfort, and my desire wasto become a pupil of Clara Schumann. Herdaughters acted as Vorbereiters for their fa-mous mother. I learned they were slow, heavyand pedantic, without having inherited thegifts of their distinguished parents. Raff,Director of the Conservatory, seeing how mat-ters stood, said it would be so much better ifI could study with a te

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