pedagogue

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Ever the eager pedagogue, as played with buoyant energy by Mr. Morse, Beckett annotates her performance: “Haydn based that movement of the symphony on a folk song. From Croatia.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

As composer, virtuoso pianist, theorist, highly opinionated futurist and pedagogue, Busoni exerted a little-acknowledged, though crucial, component of the cultural identity of San Francisco and beyond, Los Angeles very much included.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

The renowned piano pedagogue Rosina Lhevinne heard him play and urged the dean of the school to offer him a scholarship.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

The most idiosyncratic, quirky and brilliant in modern times was Pierre Cochereau, improviser, composer, pedagogue and one of the greatest organists of the 20th century.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019

He's a scold confest, A pedagogue incarnate; horn-book, tawse.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 by Various