#malcolm frager

[clavierissimo]

If you think back on a performance that has really stood out to you over the years, you may not even remember the specific sounds, but you remember the mood that was created, the turn of phrase, the momentary vision that became clear to you at that instant.

Malcolm Frager

[clavierissimo]

The idea of competition is antithetic to the whole purpose of art.

Malcolm Frager

[clavierissimo]

The most important thing in performance is to pinpoint that particular mood or character, or combination of characters, which is implicit in the music and focus all our efforts on bringing this character to life in such a way that, when the audience hears it, it responds instinctively, and somehow knows what the music is about. Otherwise, to me music can be a very boring thing.

Malcolm Frager

[clavierissimo]

Malcolm Frager (January 15, 1935 – June 20, 1991) was an American concert pianist. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg (a Brahms pupil) in New York City from 1949 until Friedberg's death in 1955. In 1957 he graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a major in Russian. He won the Piano Competition in Geneva (1955), the Michaels Memorial Award in Chicago (1956), the Leventritt Competition in New York (1959), and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels (1960).