Dutilleux and Piano technique

The other day I was in the library at Normal University in Shida. Great library! Anyway I was reading through a stack of books including Dutilleux and Benjamin Britten. Someone said something like: it's like you have the horse saddled up, but you should be comfortable in the saddle. That's it! You have to figure out all the bits and pieces of technique, the finger, hand, wrist arm, shoulder...But then you have to be comfortable and journey comfortably. Now I just have to go back and find where exactly did I read that!..

Meanwhile anyone wishing for a great piano composer, look no further than Dutilleux! What a star! More humane than Boulez, more selective in his output than the verbose Messiaen, he is definitely my favourite French composer from the second half of the 20th century. (Actually he passed away only last year). Snubbed by the french government and status quo, he ignored this, and quietly continued with his precise refined compositions. It did him no harm that his wife Genevieve Joy was such a fine pianist!
Benjamin Britten, meanwhile, didn't actually like the piano sound, so he favoured words with music, inspired by his partner Peter Pears. In some ways this cultured, literary musician was parallel to Francois Poulenc, who was so very enamoured of the poetry of Eluard, Apollinaire et al, whose poetry he set to voice and accompanied Pierre Bernac. Such hidden cultural riches!

Body Mapping

Reading a very good book "What every pianist needs to know about the body" by Thomas Mark, which I'd recommend warmly to every pianist and teacher. But there is one thing not right, I think: "The concept of the body map and the power of Body Mapping in improving movement and curing injury among musicians were the joint discovery of Barbara and William Conable" (Preface, p X).
I believe many people discovered the concept of body mapping before then.
Moshe Feldenkrais, to name but one, in his 1964 article Aspects d'une technique:l'expression corporelle, translated into English in 1988 as Bodily Expressions by Thomas Hanna, editor of Somatics magazine [and quoted in full in the book: Embodied Wisdom: Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais, publ. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 2010].

"The behaviour of human beings is firmly based on the self-image they have made for themselves. Accordingly, if one wishes to change one's behaviour, it will be necessary to change this image. What is a self-image? It is a body image; namely, it is the shape and relationship of the bodily parts, which means the spatial and temporal relationships, as well as the kinesthetic feelings..."

Yehudi Menuhin was an enthusiastic advocate of Feldenkrais, but admittedly the teachings are not specifically for musicians, who will need to apply them to their individual instrument.
An earlier book (1903), specifically for musicians is Artistic Piano Playing as taught by Ludwig Deppe, by Elisabeth Caland. Page 29 of the 1903 edition refers to "a mental map of the entire route from brain to finger tips". 

The edition I bought is printed by amazon.co.uk - yes, printed by amazon. You can decide for yourself whether the presentation is competent, or not. There is no vol. 2, btw.