Our next salon of this season is on Friday, November 15th, traditionally at 5pm in the A.D. White House. "Steps to Perfection: Piano Teaching from Clementi to Chopin" is inspired by the mutual enrichment that arises from the interaction between teachers and students. Patricia Garcia Gil and Andrew Willis will host a conversation around the English/French lineage of piano instruction that stemmed from Clementi’s seminal Introduction to the Art of Playing the Piano Forte (1801). These pedagogical materials developed by Clementi provided a model for countless instructional methods and were endorsed and used by Beethoven, Chopin, and other eminent musicians. Examples from collections of studies by Clementi, Cramer, Montgeroult, and Chopin will be performed on the Viennese piano by Joseph Simon, 1835.
The event is free and open to the public.
