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Title: My Life With the Great Pianists by Franz Mohr, Edith Schaeffer ISBN: 0-8010-5710-8 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: A wonderful book detailing the life of concert piano technician, Franz Mohr. He speaks extensively about Horowitz, Rubinstein, Cliburn and others. While reading the book, you feel like you are personally there...backstage.
Mohr speaks of growing up in Nazi Germany, losing both brothers to World War II and coming to America. He speaks of working in Russia during the cold war. The chapter on WWII is worth the price of the book alone.
About the only downside to this book is his regular preaching about becoming a "Born-Again-Christian". While that in and of itself isn't too bad, it does tend to be a little bit too much at times. The reader gets tired of Franz sentencing great pianists to Hell, because they don't share his "born-again" beliefs.
All in all, it's a great book and the unique stories of his life, and the insight into what a good man he is, more than compensate for the occasional "judgement casting" of the masters that he does.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful anecdotes, strange tangents
Comment: Mohr's book is full of insights into the personal sides of many great pianists: Horowitz, Rubinstein, Cliburn, Gould. He provides perspectives on the pianists as people, a side few people ever have had a chance to see, and he also shares some of the personal musical styles of the pianists--how (or even if) they practiced, rehearsed, etc. Mohr also gives a rare view of the Soviet Union--from within--which few have ever seen.
The unfortunate part of this book is Mohr's heavy emphasis on his Christianity. At times it provides anecdotes of interesting interactions with the pianists, or in the case of his time in the Soviet Union, his involvement in Christianity and the Bible leads to amazing descriptions of experiences in a country nearly rid of religion by the Communist leadership. However, at times Mohr goes on at great length about religion, and to such a degree that it heavily detracts from the wonder of the intimate look at the artists.
Overall, this book is certainly worth the read, and the stories about the pianists are an utter delight! However, his religious digressions sometimes reach a point of just skipping over them entirely, which is unfortunate to the flow of the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully Entertaining and Informative Book
Comment: This book is wonderful, it gives so much new insight into the real everyday lives of the pianists coupled with personal insights of memories by Franz. He gives personal accounts of cliburn, gilels, rubinstein, Horowitz, Michelangeli and his times with them. He also sheds alot of light and unknown information about Horowitz going to moscow that can be found nowhere else. This book is truly incredible and you should purchase it without hesitation. Alot of the information about the artists in the book can't be found anywhere else, and it wasn't repeated information already known.
ps. To the guy with the comment below Piano tuners and especially Franz no alot about the piano and piano playing. Contrary to what you said he does know who has good technique who can play louder and softer who can perform what and how. He has been to so many concerts by the artists in the book and has children who play the piano and he himself is an artist. He is extremely talented and he knows more about piano and piano playing than most of the artists that play the instrument.
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Title: Steinway & Sons by Richard K. Lieberman ISBN: 0300068506 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves by Elyse Mach ISBN: 0486266958 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Evenings With Horowitz: A Personal Portrait by David Dubal ISBN: 1559720948 Publisher: Birch Lane Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music by Seymour Bernstein ISBN: 0793557127 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Great Pianists by Harold C. Schonberg ISBN: 0671638378 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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