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This volume is an introduction to cello playing by an outstanding recitalist, soloist and teacher of international repute whose natural wish - as a teacher - would be to sing, play and demonstrate what he means. Devoted pupil, Nona Pyron, herself a figure of some authority in the world of the cello, has guided and marshalled William Pleeth's brilliantly perceptive advice - based on his lifetime's playing and teaching - into the confines of this valuable book.

William Pleeth was one of the greatest cellists and pedagogues of the 20th Century. Born to a family of professional musicians, he showed great promise at an early age and became a pupil of Herbert Walenn at the London Cello School at the age of ten. He studied for two years with Klengel at Leipzig on a scholarship - the youngest student ever admitted to that programme - and by the time he was 15, he had learnt the Bach Suites, the Piatti Caprices and 32 concertos. He began teaching at the Menuhin School in 1977.