Goodreads asked Eileen Sauer:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Eileen Sauer My piano / solfege teacher studied at the Paris Conservatory when four famous French composers were alive and Gabriel Fauré was director of the conservatory. Many classmates from our piano school (The French School of Music in Plainfield, NJ) played at Carnegie Recital Hall as children, and numerous classmates went to Juilliard, other conservatories, and Ivy League schools. Many became professional musicians, and others became doctors, lawyers, technologists, educators, etc. It took a long time to realize it was our teacher's methodology that made this possible.

My dad spent decades capturing her efficient piano practice techniques. The Solfege Teaching Guide is a companion to his book Fundamentals of Piano Practice, explaining how our required solfege lessons at the time enabled us to master fundamentals needed to understand music at a deep level, and that solfege made our piano lessons that much more effective and efficient. This guide will show you what is needed to become a self-sufficient musician. Together, Piano Practice Fundamentals and the Solfege Teaching Guide capture French School's entire methodology.

flag