The Piano Teacher (play)
The Piano Teacher may refer to * ''The Piano Teacher'' (Jelinek novel), a 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek ** ''The Piano Teacher'' (film) a 2001 film, based on the Jelinek novel * ''The Piano Teacher'' (Lee novel), a 2009 novel by Janice Y. K. Lee * ''The Piano Teacher'' (Tanenbaum book), a nonfiction book by Robert K. Tanenbaum about convicted killer Charles Yukl * Piano teacher Piano pedagogy is the study of the teaching of piano playing. Whereas the professional field of music education pertains to the teaching of music in school classrooms or group settings, piano pedagogy focuses on the teaching of musical skills t ...

The Piano Teacher (Jelinek Novel)
''The Piano Teacher'' (german: Die Klavierspielerin) 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. The novel follows protagonist Erika Kohut , a sexually and emotionally repressed piano teacher, as she enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student, Walter Klemmer , the results of which are disastrous. Like much of Jelinek's work, the chronology of the events in the book is interwoven with images of the past and the internal thoughts of characters. While the English work was titled ''The Piano Teacher'', the title in German means ''the piano player''; it is also clear that the player is female because of the noun's feminine ending. In 2001, the novel was adapted into the film '' The Piano Teacher'', directed by Michael Haneke. Plot synopsis The novel follows Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her late thirties ...
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The Piano Teacher (film)
''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. It tells the story of an unmarried piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) at a Vienna conservatory, living with her mother (Annie Girardot) in a state of emotional and sexual disequilibrium, who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student (Benoît Magimel). A co-production of Austria and France, Haneke was given the opportunity to direct after previous attempts to adapt the novel by filmmakers Valie Export and Paulus Manker collapsed for financial reasons. At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prix; the two leads, Huppert and Magimel, won Best Actress and Best Actor. It went on to receive positive reviews and other awards and nominations. Plot Erika Kohut is a piano professor in her late 30s at a Vienna music conservatory who resides in an apartment wi ...
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The Piano Teacher (Lee Novel)
''The Piano Teacher'' is a 2009 novel by Janice Y. K. Lee about a love story set in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s. It is about a married woman who is hired by a rich family and ends up having an affair with the family driver, only to discover his tragic past with a former lover. The book became a global bestseller. The character of Trudy was loosely based on Emily Hahn. Plot The novel is set in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s, when it was still a British territory. Upon his arrival in Hong Kong, Will Truesdale meets Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite of Portuguese and Chinese descent. She and Will fall deeply in love, but are inevitably separated by World War II and the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. Will is sent to an internment camp while Trudy becomes both the tutor and unwilling mistress of the cruel Japanese General Otsubo, who rules Hong Kong. Ten years later Claire Pendelton, twenty-eight and newly married, moves from England to Hong Kong with her husband M ...
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The Piano Teacher (Tanenbaum Book)
The Piano Teacher may refer to * ''The Piano Teacher'' (Jelinek novel), a 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek ** ''The Piano Teacher'' (film) a 2001 film, based on the Jelinek novel * ''The Piano Teacher'' (Lee novel), a 2009 novel by Janice Y. K. Lee * ''The Piano Teacher'' (Tanenbaum book), a nonfiction book by Robert K. Tanenbaum about convicted killer Charles Yukl * Piano teacher Piano pedagogy is the study of the teaching of piano playing. Whereas the professional field of music education pertains to the teaching of music in school classrooms or group settings, piano pedagogy focuses on the teaching of musical skills t ...