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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Allan Kardec, Camille-Marie Stamaty, Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris, Nicolas Roland, Georges Hebert, Jean-Francois Champagne, Jeanne Galzy, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, Charles-Michel de l'Epee, Michel Alaux, Celestin Freinet, Etienne Pernet, Olivier Ihl, Nicolas Chopin, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan, Amedee Jacques, Herve Biausser, Valentin Hauy, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Adrian Nyel, Benilde Romancon, Emile Acollas, Michel Jouvet, Gerard J. Roubichou, Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, Ferdinand Berthier, Charles Francois d'Abra de Raconis, Charles Francois Lhomond, Charles Rollin, Pierre Bernard, Jean Massieu, Marie Souvestre, Albert Chatelet, Octave Greard, Jean Belmain, Barbara Romagnan, Louis Lallemant, Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, Jonas Ennery, Albert Vandal, Corderius, Jean Piveteau. Excerpt: Camille-Marie Stamaty (Rome, March 13, 1811 - Paris, April 19, 1870) was a French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies (etudes). Today largely forgotten, he was one of the preeminent piano teachers in 19th century Paris. His most famous pupils were Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saens. Stamaty was the star pupil of Friedrich Kalkbrenner and heir to Kalkbrenner's teaching method. He taught a crisp, fine, even filigree piano playing that concentrated on evenness of scales, independence of fingers and minimum movement of body and arms. Stamaty composed a great number of piano studies (etudes), various other shorter piano works (the usual waltzes, fantasies, quadrilles, and variations so dear to the 19th century), a piano concerto and some chamber music. None of his music is still in the repertoire today, although a good look at his once famous etudes might be very worthwhile. New recordings of his best output (concert etudes, piano concerto), possibly on period instruments, would be desira...
