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> [“They include conceptual artist and “environmental music” composer Annea Lockwood, who created a work entitled Piano Burning. Debuted in London in 1968, it requires the performer to select an upright piano in disrepair, put it in an open space with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/they-include-conceptual-artist-and-environmental-music-composer-annea/)

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## More by Stuart Isacoff

> [“Recent breakthroughs in the field of neuro-science have shown that playing the piano is good for your brain. Dr. Gottfried Schlaug of Beth Israel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/recent-breakthroughs-in-the-field-of-neuro-science-have-shown-that/)

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> [“To the young among his admirers, he was the fresh face of an emerging, better world; to the old, a balm for the pain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/to-the-young-among-his-admirers-he-was-the-fresh-face-of-an-emerging/)

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> [“Though his rivals at the competition were well trained, there was something different about Van’s art. For many in the audience it represented the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/though-his-rivals-at-the-competition-were-well-trained-there-was/)

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> [“Those admirers created so strong a ballast against possible Kremlin tampering with the jury vote that it was said years later by critic Tamara…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/those-admirers-created-so-strong-a-ballast-against-possible-kremlin/)

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> [“As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument’s legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/as-victorian-era-prudishness-set-in-some-upstanding-citizens-also/)

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> [“Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/oscar-is-our-liszt-and-bill-evans-is-our-chopin/)

[Stuart Isacoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-isacoff/)

> [“The handful of leading craftsmen turning out pianos during that time produced only around thirty to fifty of them per annum. But by 1798,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/the-handful-of-leading-craftsmen-turning-out-pianos-during-that-time/)

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> [“Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was “to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/peterson-revealed-that-he-had-decided-the-only-way-to-get-attention/)

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> [“They include conceptual artist and “environmental music” composer Annea Lockwood, who created a work entitled Piano Burning. Debuted in London in 1968, it requires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/they-include-conceptual-artist-and-environmental-music-composer-annea/)

[Stuart Isacoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-isacoff/)

> [“Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player’s legs are likely to get entangled during performance. (When Swiss-American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/alkan-even-wrote-a-piece-for-four-feet-called-bombardo-carillon-in/)

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> [“The Soviet performers felt that every note had to be strictly controlled. They had excellent training, but the result lacked freshness and poetry.” That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/the-soviet-performers-felt-that-every-note-had-to-be-strictly/)

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> [“The work had its own history of struggle. Originally intended as a showpiece for pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, it was dismissed by that renowned pianist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/the-work-had-its-own-history-of-struggle-originally-intended-as-a/)

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> [“The Moscow audience had of course heard it many times before, but Van’s interpretation was extraordinary. The work’s thundering octaves and delicate filigree were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-isacoff/the-moscow-audience-had-of-course-heard-it-many-times-before-but-van/)

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