Совершенно верно: 1981
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/18/magazine/to-be-young-and-a-concert-pianist.html?pagewanted=all
С именами это выглядит так: "We are surrounded by more flying fingers than ever before, and today's younger pianist routinely operates on a general level of expertise that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Virtuosity is what you need to get into the game, and a very tough game it is. Jacques Leiser, who has managed the careers of Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and currently performs that service for Jean-Philippe Collard, said recently, and dismissively, of that week's young hotshot piano whiz, ''He has the fingers, but these days, who hasn't?''"
Что забавно, что можно заменить в этой статье имена на имена молодых пианистов, и все поверят, что это сегодня написано.
Пара других интересных цитат, а вообще лучше просто статью прочитать, там много актуальных мыслей:
"Beroff, who thinks he might like to teach someday, views teachers in a less exalted light than do most pianists: ''I lost a lot of time by just doing what I was asked to do, without understanding deeply what I was doing. In France, too many teachers separate technical problems and musical problems, which is something very stupid. Nothing is technical, everything is music. That separation doesn't happen in Germany."
"Carol Rosenberger has thought a great deal about her colleagues' virtuosity: ''Piano playing is relatively young, about 150 years. From Liszt on, each generation has explored the resources and the pianistic possibilities - color, techniques and material. Each one passes that on to however many people study with him or her, so that you get a wider population studying the piano intensively and extensively, and you're bound to get a higher and higher quality. We're not the pioneers anymore. The pioneers were Liszt and the generation after him, into the early 20th century. Rachmaninoff was a pioneer, and Schnabel. Probably the greater accessibility of inspired piano playing on disk has something to do with it. Standing on a giant's shoulders, you can see a little farther.''"
В принципе в это есть разумное зерно. Появление записей было стимулом для развития, способом получать знания. А теперь у нас есть youtube. Приведет ли это к качественному скачку в развитии?
