Nouneberg, Louta: Le Piano Révélé par le Film. La 10éme Etude de Chopin. Interprétée par Nicolas Orloff

Nouneberg, Louta: Le Piano Révélé par le Film. La 10éme Etude de Chopin. Interprétée par Nicolas Orloff – Paris, [cop. 1931], Eschig. VN ME3056. [28 p.] 355 mm – With wrappers. Disbound. With the advent of cinematography, one could observe the technique of the masters first-hand. From 1928 to 1934, Nouneberg and Michel Hervy filmed Vladimir Horowitz, Wilhelm Backhaus, Robert Casadesus, Artur Rubinstein, Alfred Cortot, Marguerite Long, Alexander Borovsky, Claudio Arrau, Wanda Landowska, and others performing Chopin Etudes – silent films in real time and slow motion. This related booklet addresses the Etudes’ technical issues and illustrates them with dozens of photos of the hands of these early 20th-century masters.