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...Again, the reflector can return to the strings a large part of the energy imparted by the player's fingers. Inventor Hammond held, at his home in Gloucester, Mass., a demonstration of a regulation instrument fitted with his invention. Famed musicians composers, expressed their wonder. Said Pianist Josef Hofmann...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall a concert of piano music by Josef Hofmann, flawless technician and thorough artist. He will play a Beethoven Sonata (Opus 111) and selections from Schumann and Chopin...
...value of prodigies seems much in doubt. Endless numbers of them, with genius in infancy, have come to mediocrity in maturity. On the other hand, many of the world's finest artists have been infant prodigies, witness Josef Hofmann, at the piano, Mozart in composition...
...Josef Hofmann was a European sensation and attracted the attention of Rubinstein before the age of seven; had a sensational debut at the Metropolitan when nine...
...other virtuosos of the instrument of keys and hammers were sorry fellows. He likewise essayed the unusual thing of giving his critical rating of his fellow artists-Paderewski a good pianist but not a great one; likewise Busoni and Rosenthal; Godowsky a good technician; Rachmaninoff a third rater; Josef Hofmann not a great pianist, although he plays well at times. These divertissements were laid to the man's natural peculiarities, those peculiarities which lead him to make apostrophic speeches while he plays a sonata in concert. Actually, however, they were largely the product of an enthusiasm, perhaps a monomania...