Foundations of Oboe Playing by Marc Schaeferdiek is a very coherent and motivating book which every oboist should own, regardless of whether they are amateur, a younger or an older student, or professional!
The new book Foundations of Oboe Playing by Marc Schaeferdiek is very thoroughly and lovingly formulated to cover all essential aspects of oboe playing. Equipped with daily exercises and numerous tips, this oboe tutor is a real asset for all oboists and oboe enthusiasts!
The book Foundations of Oboe Playing is a comprehensive and systematic handbook, suitable for every oboist. It will help to improve every oboists technical and artistic skill on the instrument.
I find Foundations of Oboe Playing very helpful and enlightening. Until now, subjects such as breath control, support, tongue-position while playing, or posture have tended to be neglected in literature on the oboe. I can warmly recommend Foundations of Oboe Playing to every oboist!
Not too late, but very expectantly awaited by everyone who engages with this instrument. Following intensive analysis of Foundations of Oboe Playing, I am thrilled 13 there has never been such an intensive presentation. Commendations to Marc Schaeferdiek!
I am overjoyed that there is at last a methodical tutor which looks exhaustively at the complicated balancing act within the whole body when playing oboe. The oboe student is expertly encouraged to proceed slowly and methodically through the learning steps, observing themselves closely in order to carefully build a physical basis for healthy and economical music-making.
