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Piano pronto method books are graded from beginning through intermediate levels and suitable for students of all ages. A guide to fine and correct piano playing dover books on music kindle edition by malwine bree. By the age of eighteen he was a wellknown virtuoso. Discusses hand and finger positions, touch, diatonic and chromatic scales, trills, chords, and arpeggios, rhythm, pedaling, melody, practice. Theodor leschetizky, original name teodor leszetycki, born june 22, 1830, lancut, poland, austrian empire now in polanddied november 14, 1915, dresden, germany, polish pianist and teacher who, with franz liszt, was the most influential teacher of piano of his time leschetizky studied under carl czerny in vienna and thus was linked indirectly with the playing of czernys. A guide to fine and correct piano playing dover books on music bree, malwine on. A pupil himself of the great carl czerny, leschetizky went on to instruct an entire generation of worldclass pianists, including paderewski, schnabel, moiseiwitsch, brailowsky, and many others.