TY - BOOK AU - Chasins,Abram TI - Speaking of pianists PY - 1957/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Pianists KW - Biography N1 - [Part] I : Exposition -- Josef Hofmann -- Leopold Godowsky -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Artur Schnabel -- In retrospect -- [Part] II : Countersubjects -- Concerning Donald Francis Tovey -- On interpretation -- On teaching -- [Part] III : Development -- Ignace Jan Paderewski -- Wanda Landowska -- Wilhelm Backhaus -- Artur Rubinstein -- Walter Geiseking -- Guiomar Novaƫs -- Robert Casadesus -- Rudolf Serkin -- Vladimir Horowitz -- And others -- [Part] IV : Theme and variations -- Also with us -- The expendables -- The chains of management -- High fidelity, high fatality -- State and art -- Mozart's "Clavierland" -- Beethoven's five -- Chopin -- Schumann -- Liszt -- Brahms in D minor and B flat -- Tchaikovsky's human documents -- The Rachmaninoff concertos -- Gershwin : paradox in blue -- And others -- Recapitulation and coda -- Closing phrases : in lieu of a discography ER -