Der Untergeher<\/em>), he discusses the fictional (?) lessons Glenn Gould had with Vladimir Horowitz in Salzburg:\n<\/p>\n\n“Even Horowitz wouldn’t have been Horowitz if Glenn had been missing, the one made the other possible and vice versa…. Glenn had made Horowitz into a genial teacher, not Horowitz Glenn into a genius, I thought. In those months in Salzburg Glenn made Horowitz into the ideal teacher for his genius and through his genius, I thought…. A Glenn has to come upon a Horowitz, I thought, and precisely at the single right moment. If this moment isn’t the right one, what Glenn and Horowitz accomplished won’t be accomplished. The teacher who isn’t a genius is made into a teacher of genius by the student of genius at this precise moment for a very precise time period, I thought.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Great teachers produce great students. Don’t they? Young musicians seek out teachers — celebrated ones whose former students have succeeded in winning competitions, playing concerts, getting management, making recordings. Of course elite teachers pick their students, and the picking is important. The ability to recognize exceptional potential is rather rare. A teacher’s celebrity (as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[566,82,81,172,570,535,564,68,565,567,569,568,503],"class_list":{"0":"post-341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-arthur-schnabel","9":"tag-glenn","10":"tag-gould","11":"tag-horowitz","12":"tag-music-student","13":"tag-music-teacher","14":"tag-music-teaching","15":"tag-musical-learning","16":"tag-sascha-gorodnitzki","17":"tag-schnabel","18":"tag-student","19":"tag-talent","20":"tag-thomas-bernhard","21":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/span>A teacher’s celebrity (as a performer or as a teacher) can itself be a tool. And even the size of the fee for a lesson! When asked why he charges so much, Arthur Schnabel answers, in the enduring joke on the subject, “Well, I also give lessons for only five dollars — but you wouldn’t want those<\/em><\/em>.” Sascha Gorodnitzki<\/a> is reported to have said that his extraordinarily high price allowed him to do almost nothing in a lesson — the shock of spending so much money jolted the student to play better…\n<\/p>\n