Piano Exercises of Alfred Cortot

The great pianist Alfred Cortot was one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th Century. His recordings of Chopin, Schumann, Franck, Mendelssohn, and Bach remain iconic, profound and some of the most deeply moving interpretations ever to be but on disc. Yet my personal musical journey was equally affected, if not more so, by his book ”Rational Principles of Pianoforte technique.”