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The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste, lit. 'The Pianist') is a 2001 erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke , based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek .
Josef Lhévinne [a] [1] (13 December 1874 – 2 December 1944) [2] was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was lay-VEEN. [3]
The Piano Teacher (German: Die Klavierspielerin [diː klaˈviːɐ̯ˌʃpiːləʁɪn]; transl. "The Piano Player [f.]") is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English. [1]
Jonathan Powell, piano. Toccata TOCC 044, CD, released 2009. The Contrapuntal Sketches were written in the 1930s. With this work Goldenweiser can perhaps stake claim as being the first Russian composer to write a set of polyphonic pieces in each of the major and minor keys, all of which appear on this recording. [9]
Born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) to a Jewish family, Levit began playing piano at the age of three. He received piano lessons from his mother Elena Levit, a piano teacher, répétiteur and grand-disciple of Heinrich Neuhaus. [3] As a child, he had his first successes on the concert stage in his hometown. His family moved to Hannover in 1995.
In the early twentieth century, members of the Russian gentry gather at the rural estate of Anna Petrovna Voynitseva, a general’s widow. Among the guests are Dr. Triletsky, the creditor Mr. Petrin, Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolev (an admirer of Anna Petrovna), and neighbors Mikhail Vasilyevich Platonov and his wife, Sashenka.
The Tuner (Russian: Настройщик, romanized: Nastroyshchik) is a 2004 Ukraine/Russia mix film of art house grotesque and a sting comedy. At the heart of Kira Muratova’s film is her characteristic and enduring love of predation—predation for its own sake. The film offers a complex assessment of the human subject, civilization, and ...
The Piano Teacher has generally been well received. In The Georgia Straight, Kathleen Oliver called the play "a beautiful meditation on grief, loss, and the healing power of music." She further added, "Dittrich’s unadorned dialogue is refreshingly direct: the characters speak and listen intently to one another, usually without subtext."