Essay on a concert pianist's life [manuscript]. circa 1950s.

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Essay on a concert pianist's life [manuscript]. circa 1950s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271577970

Typewritten essay, presumably written by Joyce. Discusses piano study in her youth, practice, technique, discipline, broadcasting, effect on the body, isolation and loneliness. Text commences: "For the equivalent of three - perhaps four or more - years of days and nights, twenty-fours round the clock, I have sat before this contrivance of wood wire and ivory, the piano. ..."

8 p. ; 33 cm.

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Joyce, Eileen, 1908-1991

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Eileen Joyce (1908-1991) was a renowned Australian concert pianist, resident in England for most of her life. Born in Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia, Eileen and her family had moved to Boulder City on the Eastern Goldfields by 1909, where she commenced her piano education at her local convent school. With local support and encouragement by visiting pianists such as Wilhelm Backhaus and Percy Grainger, she completed her education in Perth in 1926, studied in Germany (1927-1930), and settled in Engla...