MARCO GAGGINI

Tra i suoi numerosi allievi figurano molti dei musicisti che contribuirono a definire la scuola pianistica britannica del XX secolo, come Arthur Alexander, York Bowen, Hilda Dederich, Norman Fraser, Myra Hess, Denise Lasimonne, Clifford Curzon, Harold Craxton, Moura Lympany, Gertrude Peppercorn, Louise Christine Rebe, Ruth Roberts, Irene Scharrer, Lilias Mackinnon, Guy Jonson, Vivian Langrish, Hope Squire, Eileen Joyce, la pianista jazz Raie Da Costa, Harriet Cohen, Dorothy Howell e il duo pianistico formato da Ethel Bartlett e Rae Robertson. Il suo insegnamento si estese anche a figure d'oltreoceano, tra cui gli statunitensi Ray Lev, Eunice Norton e Lytle Powell, al pianista canadese Harry Dean, al compositore Arnold Bax e al direttore d'orchestra Ernest Read. L'alto profilo della sua eredità didattica è testimoniato anche da Hilda Hester Collens (sua allieva tra il 1910 e il 1914), che nel 1920 fondò a Manchester la Matthay School of Music. Successivamente rinominata Northern School of Music, l'istituzione è stata una delle storiche fondatrici dell'odierno Royal Northern College of Music.

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​É possibile consultare "l'albero genealogico" didattico di Matthay consultando l'interessantissimo sito-progetto di Daniel Pereira Piano Traditions Through Their Genealogy Trees al seguente link e delle brevi biografie dei principali studenti (link).

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Fonti:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Matthay

• Marcello Capra, Psicofisiologia, Pianoforte, Tobia Matthay. Appunti polemico-pianistici di un autodidatta sessantenne, Torino, S.T.E.N., 1920

• Jessie Hendeson Matthay, The Life And Works Of Tobias Matthay, London, Boosey & Hawkes, 1945.

• Stephen Siek, England's Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay, Lanham, Scarecrow Press, 2011.

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Opere teoriche e saggi

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• The Act of touch in all its diversity: an analysis and synthesis of pianoforte tone-production

  London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1903

  • Le azioni del tocco pianistico in tutte le loro differenziazioni: analisi e sintesi della produzione sonora

    Versione dall'Inglese di Maria Bertola, a cura e con prefazione di Marcello Capra, Torino, S.T.E.N, Marcello Capra, 1922.​

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• The first principles in Pianoforte playing. ​​Being an extract from the Author's "The Act of Touch." Designed for School use and with two additional chapters. Directions for Learners "and "Advice to Teachers"

  London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1905

  • L'Arte del Tocco nel suonare il Pianoforte​

    Versione dall'Inglese di Maria Bonetti, Torino, Fratelli Bocca Editori, 1911.​

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• Relaxation Studies - in the muscular discriminations required for touch, agility and expression in pianoforte playing.

  London, Bosworth & Co ltd., 1908​​

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• Some commentaries on the teaching of pianoforte technique. A supplement to "The Act of Touch" and "First principles"

  London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1911

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• The principles of fingerings and laws of pedaling. The Distinction between Touch-Species and Touch-Movements, extracted from “Muscular relaxation studies" for pianoforte

  London, Bosworth & Co ltd., 1911

   

• Double-Third Scales, their Fingering and Practice

  London, T. M. P. S. Press, 1911

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• The fore-arm rotation principle in Pianoforte playing. Its application and mastery

  London, Joseph Williams (UK), Boston, The Boston Music Co. (U.S.A.), 1912

  • ​​La rotazione dell'avambraccio al pianoforte. Applicazioni - maestria - fisiologia

    Versione dall'Inglese di Marcello Capra, Torino, S.T.E.N, Marcello Capra, 1920

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• ​​The child’s first steps in piano playing. Written for children, but also for adults as an introduction to their teaching 

  London, Joseph Williams (UK), Boston, The Boston Music Co. (U.S.A.), 1912

  • I primi passi al pianoforte. Per fanciulli nonché per adulti

    Versione dall'inglese di Marcello Capra, Torino, S.T.E.N, Marcello Capra, 1920

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• ​​​Musical Interpretation, Its Laws and Principles, and their application in teaching and performing

  London, Joseph Williams (UK), Boston, The Boston Music Co. (U.S.A.), 1913

   

• The problems of agility

  London, Oxford University press, 1918

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• The pianist's first music making: for use in conjunction with Tobias Mattay's The childʼs first steps in pianoforte playing / music composed by Felix Swinstead ; preface and directions by Tobias Matthay

  Volume I - Volume II - Volume III

  London, Oxford University press, 1919

  • ​Le prime musiche del pianista: per l'applicazione dei principi gradualmente esposti nell'opera "I primi passi al pianoforte per fanciulli nonchè per adulti" di Tobia Matthay

    Volume I - Volume II - Volume III

    Torino : S.T.E.N., 1921

     

• ​​On method in teaching: a lecture

  London, Oxford University Press, 1920

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• ​​The nine steps towards finger individualization through forearm rotation. A supplement to the first book of "Pianist's first music making", and "Child's first steps"

  London, Oxford University press, 1923

   

• The T.M.P.S. practice triangle and card. Exercises for Rotational Freedom, Finger Extension and Freeing.

  London, Joseph Williams (UK), Boston, The Boston Music Co. (U.S.A.), ?

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• On memorizing and Playing from Memory and on the Laws of Practice generally

  London, Oxford University Press, 1926

   

• The Slur or Couplet of Notes in all its Variety, its Interpretation and Execution

  London, Oxford University press, 1928

   

• An epitome of the laws of pianoforte technique. Being a Summary abstracted from “The Visible and Invisible"

  London, Oxford University press, 1931

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• ​The visible and invisible in Pianoforte Technique

  London, Oxford University Press, 1932

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• The act of musical concentration, showing the true function of analysis in playing, teaching and practicing

  London, Oxford University press, 1934

   

• On Colouring as distinct from Tone-inflection

  London, Oxford University press, 1937

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• An Introduction to Psychology for Music Teachers, Three Lectures

  London, Oxford University press, 1939

  • I. “The Scope and Subject-Matter of Psychology”

  • II. “The Working Material of Psychology”

  • III. “On Attention and Interest—and Inhibition”

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• Piano fallacies of today

  London, Oxford University press, 1939

   

• Four daily exercises for advanced players

  London, Boosey & Hawkes, n.d.

   

• First Lights on Piano-Playing

  London, Boosey & Hawkes, 1939

   

• The approach to music (by Tobias Matthay, Harold Craxton, and Felix Swinstead)

  London, Boosey & Hawkes, 1940

  • Book I: ​"How Do You Do, Mr. Piano?" (Matthay)

  • Book II: First Solos (Craxton)

  • Book III: First Duets (Swinstead)

  • Book IV: Second Solos (Matthay, Craxton)

  • Book V: Second Duets (Swinstead)

  • Book VI: Thirds Solos (Matthay, Craxton, Swinstead)

  • Book VII: Third Duets (Swinstead)

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• The gentle art of chord spreading​

  London, Oxford University press, 1945