That being said, my father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he had was a small volume of exercises by Rudolf Ganz, in which Ganz mentions the pedagogical work of the Swiss composer, Émile-Robert Blanchet, who wrote a ton of polyphonic exercises for one-hand. These exercises were a great help for finger independence, which I acquired early on. This might have given me somewhat of an edge, a facility to be able to knock any obstacle that was in my way. Of course, there were others as well. Another book he had was a collection of Busoni exercises, which is quite unusual, but they were effective and useful.
He also mentions these in the supervirtouso documentary. Do any of you guys have these? And could you please upload them for me?
Yes, there’s a version of that in 10 books as well, and also something like 5 kurze stucke fur das polyphonen spiels ausgedevelop bla bla. Probably something else too I’ve forgotten. You should be able to find all these on IMSLP actually.
Tru, thanks.
They look good.
These sort of holding exercises he has in the polyphonic section were the ones I got the most benefit from back in the day.