... lineup.’” (3) The Austrian concert pianist Artur Schnabel was diagnosed with neuritis in his hands. It was an “occupational disease,” he said. Other famous concert players would have agreed. “Throughout my entire stay in Copenhagen,” wrote pianist Clara Schumann in her diary, “I always had to tolerate grief and anxiety concerning my fingers, which were constantly inflamed with much playing.” Wrote Sergei Rachmaninoff in a letter, “I am very tired and my hands hurt.” (4) These pianists ...
