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Norman Krieger
What is it in a great pianist's technique that allows for such pristine control and refined artistry? Having witnessed performances by many of the legendary pianists of the 20th and 21st centuries up close and personal, Indiana University professor Norman Krieger has identified a secret weapon common to their technical arsenal: wrist movement. Krieger shows how through subtle, "electrical" wrist impulses, pianists the likes of Hofmann, Rubinstein, and Arrau have achieved exceptional facility and artistic control in diverse concert repertoire. While it is easy to characterize such artists as divinely gifted geniuses whose musicianship transcends technique, they nonetheless employ objective movements that we mere mortals can observe and attempt to reconstruct in our own playing. Drawing on famous repertoire passages from Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Gershwin, Krieger demonstrates how to develop an agile wrist to use a secret weapon in voicing, sonority, style, and virtuosity.
Wrist Movement: A Pianist's Secret Weapon
What is it in a great pianist's technique that allows for such pristine control and refined artistry? Having witnessed performances by many of the legendary pianists of the 20th and 21st centuries up close and personal, Indiana University professor Norman Krieger has identified a secret weapon common to their technical arsenal: wrist movement. Krieger shows how through subtle, "electrical" wrist impulses, pianists the likes of Hofmann, Rubinstein, and Arrau have achieved exceptional facility and artistic control in diverse concert repertoire. While it is easy to characterize such artists as divinely gifted geniuses whose musicianship transcends technique, they nonetheless employ objective movements that we mere mortals can observe and attempt to reconstruct in our own playing. Drawing on famous repertoire passages from Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Gershwin, Krieger demonstrates how to develop an agile wrist to use a secret weapon in voicing, sonority, style, and virtuosity.
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Unlock Course →One of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation, Norman Krieger has toured worldwide and performs regularly with the major North American orchestras. He chairs the piano department at Indiana University's storied Jacobs School of Music and previously taught at University of Southern California for almost twenty years.
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