Master Classes with Menahem Pressler

William Brown is Professor Emeritus of Music and Provost Emeritus at Southwest Baptist University. He earned two graduate performance degrees while studying with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University and is the author of Menahem Pressler: Artistry in Piano Teaching.

A Few Words Before


Acknowledgements


A Brief Biography





Master Classes and Lessons


Interlude I. Master Classes


1. Johann Sebastian Bach


Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830


2. Samuel Barber


Sonata, Op. 26


Interlude II. Page Turners


3. Ludwig van Beethoven


Thirty-Two Variations in C Minor, WoO 80


Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 26


Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3


Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, Waldstein


Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110


4. Johannes Brahms


Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Bk. 1


Klavierstücke, Op. 76


Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2


Interlude III. Poor Pianos


5. Frédéric Chopin


Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22


Deux Nocturnes, Op. 27


Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39


Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52


Berceuse, Op. 57


Barcarolle, Op. 60


Interlude IV. Hotel Stories


6. Claude Debussy


Reflets dans l'eau, from Images, Book 1


Poisson d'or, from Images, Book II


7. George Frideric Handel


Chaconne in G Major, HWV 442


Interlude V. Missed Concerts


8. Franz Joseph Haydn


Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, HOB. XVI:52, Mvt. 1


9. Franz Liszt


Grandes Études de Paganini, S. 141


Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178


Interlude VI. Funny Stories


10. Felix Mendelssohn


Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14


11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 281


Piano Concerto in C Minor, K. 491


Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 576


Interlude VII. Stories about Pianists


12. Serge Prokofiev


Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29


13. Sergei Rachmaninoff


Étude-Tableau in A Minor, Op. 39, No. 6


Interlude VIII. Honorary Citizenship in Magdeburg, Germany


14. Maurice Ravel


Sonatine


Miroirs


Interlude IX. Through Hell and Back


15. Franz Schubert


Sonata in A minor, D. 784, Op. 143


Sonata in A minor, D. 845, Op. 42


Impromptus, D. 899, Op. 90


Interlude X. A New Love


16. Robert Schumann


Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 11, Grosse Sonate


Faschingschwank aus Wien, Op. 26





Appendix A. Menahem Pressler's Musical Ancestry


Appendix B. Tributes from Former Students and Other Musicians


Bibliography


Index of Compositions


Index of Names and Concepts