diminutions: arpeggios
With the invention of the sustain pedal, a pianist could easily move up and down the keyboard with all kinds of broken chords. Book nr. 10 of Franz Liszt's Technische Studien (1868-73) includes a large collection of broken chord exercises, usually with both hands moving simultaneously as shown in the following example:
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In April 1923, The Etude music magazine published an interview titled New Lights on the Art of the Piano with pianist-composer Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), discussing among other things exercises for pianists. This exercise written down according to the instructions Rachmaninov gave in this interview, has the full range of all chords to be practiced.
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Anton Reicha (1770-1836) provides in his Etudes ou Exercises pour le Piano-Forté (1803) an interesting exercise in a stepwise chord progression.
Other interesting piano methods with series of exercises are listed below. More can be found in the section publications.
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Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
Cours complet pour l'enseignement du forte piano, (vol.1) (composed 1788-1812)
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Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) & François-Jospeh Fétis (1784-1871)
Méthode des méthodes, Op.98 (1837)
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