GREAT WOMEN PIANISTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

JEREMY NICHOLAS Towards the end of the 19th century, the eminent Austrian pianist and pedagogue Ernst Pauer (1826-1905) made a list of the twelve pianists who, in his opinion, represented the technical execution of the highest perfection between the years 1830 and 1870. Of the twelve, nine were men: Liszt, Henselt, Hallé, Tausig, Thalberg, Dreyschock,…