Tony Bandmann (17 May 1848 − 3 October 1907) was a German pianist, painter, piano teacher and theorist of piano technique.

Life

Born in

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, as a student of Ludwig Deppe, Bandmann was one of the first to have a clear theoretical understanding of the use of weight in piano technique. Since 1893, with a ''Study on tone formation and technique'' on the piano, she brought important reasons for the use of weight and the "shoulder-arm-hand chain" in tone formation, in contrast to the piano technique of the 19th century, which emerged from harpsichord playing and was based on " articulation" and "independence" of the fingers (described in the then famous ''piano school'' by Lebert and Stark). She collaborated with

Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen (13 July 1859 − 23 July 1910) was a German doctor who was intensively involved with the physical conditions of making music. Life Born in Potsdam,Steinhausen studied medicine in Berlin and became chief physician and ...

, who wrote his fundamental work on the physiological principles of piano technique (1905) at her suggestion. She herself described the principles of weight technique in her 1907 treatise ''Die Gewichtstechnik des Klavierspiels'', in whose introduction Steinhausen writes: "Bandmann's work forms the continuation and completion of my study". Together with other pianists and piano pedagogues - mostly students of Deppe, such as Amy Fay,

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, Hermann Klose and Horace F. Clark-Steiniger - Bandmann made a decisive contribution to the transformation of piano technique from the "finger technique" to the "weight technique": a transformation that took place at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and had its most important supporters (although often with the most different positions) in

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in Germany,

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in France,

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in England and in Italy. Bandmann died in Hamburg at the age of 69.

Work

* ''Tonbildung und Technik auf dem Klavier''. Leipzig:

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, 1893 * ''Die Gewichtstechnik des Klavierspiels'', with an introduction by Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907 –
Digitalisat
– New edition Kessinger Pub Co 2010 * ''Die Erneuerung der Klaviertechnik nach Liszt''. (p.56)

Literature

*Friedrich Adolf Steinhauses, ''Über die physiologischen Fehler und die Umgestaltung der Klaviertechnik''.''Über die physiologischen Fehler und die Umgestaltung der Klaviertechnik''
on WorldCat Leipzig:

1905

References

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