Tony Bandmann

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Tony Bandmann (born May 17, 1848 in Hamburg ; † October 3, 1907 there ) was a German pianist, painter, piano teacher and theorist of piano technique.

Life

As a student of Ludwig Deppe , she was one of the first to have a clear theoretical understanding of the use of weight in piano technique. Since 1893, with a study of tone formation and technique on the piano, she brought important reasons for using 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 based on " articulation " and "independence" of the fingers (described in the then famous piano school by Lebert and Stark ). She worked with Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen , who wrote his fundamental work on the physiological foundations of piano technique (1905) at her suggestion. She herself described the principles of weight technique in her treatise The Weight Technique of Piano Playing , published in 1907 , in the introduction of which Steinhausen wrote: “The work of Bandmann is the continuation and addition of my study”.

Together with other pianists and piano educators - mostly Deppe's students such as Amy Fay , Elisabeth Caland , Hermann Klose and Horace F. Clark-Steiniger - Bandmann made a decisive contribution to the transformation of piano technique from "finger technique" to "weight technique": A transformation that took place at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century and had its most important supporters (albeit often with very different positions) in Rudolf Breithaupt in Germany, Blanche Selva in France, Tobias Matthay in England and Bruno Mugellini in Italy.

Works by Tony Bandmann

  • Tone formation and technology on the piano , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1893
  • The weight technique of piano playing , with an introduction by Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907 - ( digitized ) - New edition Kessinger Pub Co 2010

Secondary literature

  • Friedrich Adolf Steinhauses, On the physiological errors and the redesign of piano technology , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1905
personal data
SURNAME Bandman, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, painter, piano teacher and theoretician of piano technique
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1907
Place of death Hamburg