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One of the most important aspects of independent piano teaching is the self-image one has as a professional piano teacher.Dr. Martha Baker-Jordan
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  • 2003, National Federation of Music Clubs
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  • Adams, John
  • Aiken, Conrad
  • Anderson, Hans Christian
  • Andrews, Julie
  • Anonymous,
  • Anonymous
  • Aristotle
  • Armstrong, Louis
  • Arrau, Claudio
  • Arriola, Pepito
  • Ashkenazy, Vladimir
  • Asow, Meuller von
  • Attenborough, Sir David
  • Auerbach, Berthold
  • Aumonier, Minnie
    • B
  • Bach, J. S.
  • Bachaus, Wilhem
  • Bacon, Ernst
  • Baker-Jordan, Dr. Martha
  • Beecham, Thomas
  • Beecher, Henry Ward
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Berlioz, Hector
  • Bernstein, Leonard
  • Bernstein, Seymour
  • Bizet, Georges
  • Blacking, John
  • Blickenstaff, Marvin
  • Borge, Victor
  • Boulanger, Nadia
  • Brahms, Johannes
  • Brendel, Alfred
  • Britten, Benjamin
  • Browning, John
  • Browning, Robert
  • Brubeck, Dave
  • Bunt, Leslie
  • Busoni, Ferruccio
  • Busoni, Feruccio
  • Byron, Lord
    • C
  • Cage, John
  • Carlyle, Thomas
  • Carreno, Teresa
  • Casals, Pablo
  • Chopin, Frederic
  • Chronister, Richard
  • Clark, Frances
  • Clementi, Muzio
  • Confucius,
  • Congrave, William
  • Congreve, William
  • Copland, Aaron
  • Crandall, Joanne
  • Crosby, Bing
    • D
  • Debussy, Claude
  • de Lamartine, Alphonse
  • de Pachmann, Vladimir
  • Dreher, Diane
  • Duncan, Lawrence
  • Dvorak, Antonin
    • E
  • Edwards, Jonathan
  • Einstein, Albert
  • Einstein, Alfred
  • Eliot, Thomas
  • Ellington, Duke
  • Elliot (Mary Anne Evans), George
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
    • F
  • Fielden, Thomas
  • Flora van Grinsven, Mark Meerum Terwogt and
    • G
  • Gabrilowitsch, Ossip
  • Gach, Peter
  • Galamian, Ivan
  • Gaston, E. Thayer
  • Gershwin, George
  • Gieseking, Walter
  • Godowsky, Leopold
  • Grieg, Edvard
  • Grimm, Baron
    • H
  • Haddon, Walter
  • Hall, Edward T.
  • Hambourg, Mark
  • Hammerstein II, Oscar
  • Hancock, Herbie
  • Harris, Robert
  • Harrison, Sidney
  • Hasse, Johann Adolf
  • Haydn, Franz Joseph
  • Heine, Heinrich
  • Hendrix, Jimi
  • Heyman, Katherine Ruth
  • Hindemith, Paul
  • Hoffman, Josef
  • Hofmann, Josef
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  • Honegger, Arthur
  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley
  • Horowitz, Vladimir
  • Howe, Edgar Watson
  • Hubbard, Kin
  • Hugo, Victor
  • Hummel, Johann
  • Hutchenson, Earnst
  • Huxley, Aldous
  • Huxley, Aldous Leonard
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  • Ives, Charles
    • J
  • James, Willam
  • James Hertel, Hamid Hekmat and
  • Jan Kochanski, Wladimir
  • Jessop, Craig
  • Johnson, James Weldon
  • Johnson, Samuel
  • Joplin, Scott
    • K
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
  • Kodaly, Zoltan
    • L
  • Landowska, Wanda
  • Latham, Geoffrey
  • Leginska, Ethel
  • Lehrer, Tom
  • Lennon, John
  • Leschetizky, Theodor
  • Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
  • Liszt, Franz
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  • Longsfellow, Henry
  • Lucas, Elizabeth
  • Luther, Martin
    • M
  • Mahler, Gustav
  • Marsha Maslan, Joan Allekote and
  • Matthay, Tobias
  • MCartney, Paul, Sir
  • McCartney, Paul, Sir
  • Mendelssohn, Felix
  • Mikuli, Karol
  • Milton, John
  • Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Muir, John
  • Musicale, Revue
    • N
  • Neuhaus, Heinrich
  • Newberry, David B.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
    • O
  • Orff, Carl
  • Ortiz, PhD, John M.
    • P
  • Paderewski, Ignace
  • Paderewski, Ignace Jan
  • Pepys, Samuel
  • Petri, Egon
  • PhD, John M. Ortiz,
  • Plato,
  • Plato
  • Poole, William
  • Pope, Alexander
  • Presley, Elvis
  • Proverb, Chinese
  • Punam Anand, Morris Holbrook and
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  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei
  • Rachmaninov, Sergei
  • Randolph, David
  • Reagan, Ronald
  • Richter, Sviatoslav
  • Rieder, Ambrose
  • Rorem, Ned
  • Rosenthal, Moriz
  • Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
  • Rowling, J.K.
  • Rubenstein, Arthur
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  • Saint-Saens, Camille
  • Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), George
  • Scarantino, Barbara Anne
  • Schelling, Ernest
  • Schnabel, Arthur
  • Schoenberg, Arnold
  • Schonberg, Harold C.
  • Schopenhaurer, Arthur
  • Schumann, Clara
  • Schumann, Robert
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Shaw, George Bernard
  • Shelley, Percy
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Simon, Abbey
  • Simone, Nina
  • Sousa, John Philip
  • Spaeth, Sigmund
  • Spencer, Herbert
  • Spinoza, Benedict
  • Stern, Isaac
  • Stevens, Wallace
  • Stewart, R.J.
  • Stokowski, Leopold
  • Storr, Anthony
  • Strauss, Claude Levi
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Stravinsky, Igor
  • Sullivan, Arthur
  • Suzuki, Shinichi
  • Szell, George
    • T
  • Tate, Jeffrey
  • Taylor, James
  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord
  • Thomas, Lewis
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Tolstoy, Leo
  • Twain, Mark
    • U
  • Ustinov, Peter
    • V
  • van Beethoven, Ludwig
  • Verlaine, Paul
  • von Bulow, Hans
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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  • Wadsworth, William
  • Wagner, Richard
  • Walker, Alan
  • Walsh, Peter
  • Ward, William Arthur
  • Watts, Andre
  • Welk, Lawrence
  • Whiteman, Paul
  • Wilde, Oscar
  • Williams, Ralph Vaughn
  • Williams, Tenessee
  • Wolf, Hugo
  • Wonder, Stevie
  • Wordsworth, William
    • Y
  • Yeats, William Butler
    • Now, I assure you, the moment I conclude that the piano is nothing but an instrument of percussion, to be beaten or whacked in order to make rhythm or some hard percussive sound, and not as an instrument on which to sing - in that moment I shall lock up the instrument and certainly never play again!Vladimir Horowitz
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