SELVA, Maria Blanche

Marie Blanche Selva was a French pianist, music educator, writer and composer of Spanish origin.

Blanche Selva was active as a translator and transcriber. But her main work is a monumental 7-volumes work on piano technique:

L'Enseignement musical de la Technique du Piano, Paris from 1916 to 1925
This book propose a radically new approach to piano playing. Her predilection for big arm gestures and her detailed descriptions of the most unusual types of attack, combined with the constant attention to the resulting tone-color, make his book a unique contribution to the history of the piano and its literature.