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Indiana University Press, Published 2009. Hardcover, xiii, 398 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Yellow paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Mild shelf and edge wear to covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket reproduces a photograph of Friedman at the piano in an empty hall, and is not price clipped. Light bumping to edges and corners, heaviest at the right-hand corners of the front panel, with mild shelf wear overall. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Friedman (1882-1948) was born at Podgorze near Krakow, studied at Leipzig and then in Vienna under Theodor Leschetizky, and after his 1904 debut played some 2,800 concerts. His Chopin, and the mazurkas above all, is what he is remembered for. The Second World War drove him out of Scandinavia; an invitation from the Australian Broadcasting Commission took him to Sydney in 1940 and he died there in 1948. Evans works from unpublished testimony and from the recordings, covering the Polish Jewish milieu Friedman came from, his marriage to Manya Schidlowsky, his teaching, his years in Egypt alongside Ignace Tiegerman, and the exile. Four appendices give the repertory, a discography, the compositions of Friedman and Tiegerman, and Friedman's edition of Chopin's piano works. Evans founded Arbiter of Cultural Traditions and has issued more than 150 recordings by historic interpreters. He edited Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music with Mark Mitchell and taught at Mannes College of Music. Contents: Acknowledgments; Musical Traditions That Hide in Shellac; From Poland; Music begins where technique leaves off; 2,800 Concerts; From Old Russia; Encroaching Modernism; From Beethoven to Hitler; In Safety, Down Under; Exile; Chopin on the Nile; The Piano According to Tiegerman; The Piano According to Friedman; Appendix A: Friedman's Repertory; Appendix B: Discography; Appendix C: Friedman's and Tiegerman's Compositions; Appendix D: Friedman's Edition of Chopin's Piano Works; Notes; Bibliography; Index.