The Eliptical Movement

The Elliptical Movement in Piano Playing - some Forerunners

von Stefan Ydefeldt (eng)

I want to introduce some forerunners, who show interesting similarities to Peter Feuchwanger, regarding body posture and elliptical movement.

From Ludwig Deppe and his pupil Elisabeth Caland and others we can find thoughts like ”apparently unintentionally” (“scheinbar Absichtslose”) movements.

Some exercises have apparently affinity with Feuchtwangers. I wish to give a background to the exercises from Feuchtwanger, with pictures and some examples at the piano on this topic.