Research on Rudolph Ganz's "Exercises for Piano Contemporary and Special"

Playing the piano is a complex thinking and practice, which in addition to the performer has a strict logic, more need to have a solid foundation of fingers. Both as the audience or performers know, music interpretation wonderful player dedicated performance, meticulous, delicate portray the image of music, the composer for the musical emotion, and it all needs to incomparable skill, it can be said that, if there is no special skills, the performance of music almost zero. While the basic technologies including all technical problems encountered in playing the piano, every sentence penetration in all the great works of music, every sentence needs to clear the pianist, which creates the perfect feeling. Scientific and system of finger training is all piano foundation, this paper takes Rudolph Ganz’s "Exercises for piano contemporary and special" "as the breakthrough point, the integration of each chapter the emphasis and some practice each period piano works for analogical analysis, to illustrate the layout of scientific rationality and value in use. Rudolph Ganz(Rudolph Ganz, February 24, 1877-1972 year in August 2nd) was born in 1877 in Zurich, Switzerland, 1972 died in Chicago, at the age of 95. He is not only a brilliant pianist, but also an outstanding music educator, composer and conductor."Exercises for piano contemporary and special" is divided into seven chapters, namely seven exercises focus: including finger exercises, polyphonic practice, reverse symmetry, special exercises, Emile Blanche special exercises, two tone, whole tone scale exercises. The author through to the seven chapters on practice and research, respectively by "people I have special" and "no person I have" two aspects. Finally found its true meaning, it can not only enhance the playing skills, but also broaden the field of vision for the finger exercises on modernist techniques-- some understanding and improve.