Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: A Few Words Before -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: A Life in Teaching -- One A Brief Biography -- Two The Studio -- Three Pressler's Early Training -- Four The Debussy Competition -- Five Opportunities in America -- Six Bloomington -- Seven General Aspects of Pressler's Teaching -- Eight The Technical Approach -- Nine Principles of Expressive Performance -- Ten Guides for Practicing -- Eleven Technical Instructions -- Twelve Pressler's Humor -- Thirteen Pressler at the Met: Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110 -- Fourteen Pressler at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute -- Part Two: The Music -- Fifteen Johann Sebastian Bach -- Sixteen Béla Bartók -- Seventeen Ludwig van Beethoven -- Eighteen Johannes Brahms -- Nineteen Frédéric Chopin -- Twenty Claude Debussy -- Twenty-One Joseph Haydn -- Twenty-Two Franz Liszt -- Twenty-Three Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Twenty-Four Serge Prokofiev -- Twenty-Five Maurice Ravel -- Twenty-Six Franz Schubert -- Twenty-Seven Robert Schumann -- Twenty-Eight Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Twenty-Nine Carl Maria von Weber -- Appendix A. Menahem Pressler's Musical Ancestry -- Appendix B. Lineage of Pressler's Piano Teachers -- Appendix C. Tributes to Pressler -- Appendix D. Pressler's Studio Rosters, 1955-2008 -- Bibliography -- Index of Compositions -- Index of Names and Concepts.