Sigismond Thalberg
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Sigismond Thalberg was an Austrian composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
From L'Illustration Tome LVII 1871, a weekly illustrated newspaper published in Paris
Sigismond Thalberg
Thalberg in 1826
Thalberg in 1836
Three-hand effect
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The three-hand effect is a means of playing on the piano with only two hands, but producing the impression that one is using three hands. Typically this effect is produced by keeping the melody in the
Sigismond Thalberg
…the time of youth and enthusiasm. In the late 19th century, Thalberg's fame had come to depend on his association with a single piano technique: the "three-hand effect". Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, in his Geschichte des Klavierspiels (1879), wrote: His bravura pieces, fantasies on melodies from Rossini's Mosè and La…
Excerpt from Thalberg's Moïse fantasy illustrating the "three-hand" effect, and indicating use of piano pedals