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So let us call Pachmann, a survival of an older school, a charming school.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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Pachmann, the Mythic Pianist: 1907 – 1927 Recordings
Piano Portraits Kimmelman, Michael 2003
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After the Harding dinner I go to the opera with the Harding party, and then, with my chaperone, that pink of propriety, Mrs. Warren, I attend the Pachmann reception at the
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington
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If we are to take Mr. Symons's assurance in regard to de Pachmann that he is the world's greatest pianist because he does one thing more perfectly than any one else, by a train of similar reasoning we might confidently assert that Mlle. Cassive is the world's greatest actress.
The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922
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The chapter that reveals most of Huneker is the appendix on latter-day piano virtuosi, with its estimates of such men as de Pachmann, Rosenthal, Paderewski and Hofmann.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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After a storm of applause de Pachmann rose from the piano stool, levelled a bony claw at Huneker, and pronounced his dictum: "_He_ knows more than _all_ of you."
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Pachmann, who has been a virtuoso for a great many years, still finds daily practice necessary, and, in addition to scales, he plays a great deal of Bach.
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The elder de Pachmann was a Professor of Law at the University of Vienna and at first did not desire to have his son become anything more than a cultured amateur.
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In his youth de Pachmann was largely self taught and aside from hearing great virtuosos at concerts and modeling his playing to some extent after theirs he had no teachers until 1866 when he went to the Vienna Conservatory to study with the then celebrated teacher, Joseph Dachs.
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Academic perfection was his goal and he could not understand such a pupil as de Pachmann who was able to get results by what seemed un-academic means.
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