The Fore-Arm Rotation Principle in Piano Forte Playing - Its Application and Mastery
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The Fore-Arm Rotation Principle in Piano Forte Playing - Its Application and Mastery - Tobias Matthay
THE
FORE-ARM ROTATION PRINCIPLE
IN PIANOFORTE PLAYING
ITS APPLICATION AND MASTERY
BY
TOBIAS MATTHAY
(Professor, Lecturer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, and Founder of the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School, London, etc.)
Copyright © 2017 Read Books Ltd.
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Contents
Tobias Matthay
Foreword
The Fore-Arm Rotation Principle
Appendix
Tobias Matthay
Tobias Augustus Matthay was born on 19th February 1858, in Clapham, Surrey, England. He was an English pianist, teacher and composer.
Matthay's parents originally came from northern Germany and eventually became naturalised British subjects. He studied composition at the 'Royal Academy of Music’ (London) under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and Arthur Sullivan, and piano with William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. Matthay served as a sub-professor there from 1876 to 1880, and became an assistant professor of pianoforte in 1880, before being promoted to professor in 1884.
Alongside Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen (both composers and music teachers), he founded the Society of British Composers in 1905. This organisation was established with the aim of protecting the interests of British composers and to provide publication, promotion and performance opportunities. It was disbanded thirteen years later, in 1918. Matthay remained at the Royal Academy of Music until 1925, when he was forced to resign because McEwen – his former student who was then the Academy's Principal – publicly attacked his teaching.
In 1903, after over a decade of observation, analysis, and experimentation, Matthay published The Act of Touch, an encyclopaedic volume that influenced piano pedagogy throughout the English-speaking world. So many students were soon in quest