Tag Archives: performance
Being a competitive pianist
Competitions, competitions, competitions. Almost every piano student has tried to participate at least in one piano competition during his music education. A motivating piano teacher is mostly the first impulse to prepare a specific program of different piano works to … Continue reading
Would Beethoven take care of his score?
Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas represent the ultimate milestone for a pianist. Everybody knows that. Yet there are plenty of different point of views about the right interpretation of this musical testament. Since great pianists began in the nineteenth century to … Continue reading
Faithful pianists don’t cheat Beethoven!
Textual fidelity, accurate reading of the score, focussed analyzing of the notes, meticulous reproduction of the dynamic indications, objective reconstruction of the composition, parsimonious use of the pedal, keen performance…we can go on. This could be the description of the … Continue reading
Sviatoslav Richter – 1915-1997
He was self-critical, self-demanding, objective in front of the music score and devoted to the audience. Sviatoslav Richter represents one of the utmost exceptional figures in the pianists´history. His teacher, Heinrich Neuhaus, considered him as a “genius pupil”. Doubtless he … Continue reading
A Remarkable Personality
Nowadays everybody knows YouTube as an enormous source of information. No matter what kind of video or just audio related documentation we need, everything can be found there….almost everything. My regular use of YouTube is concentrated on the search of … Continue reading
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli – 1920-1995
Continuing in featuring great pianists among the “Immortals” we want to pay homage to another excellent, unique and inimitable artistic personality: Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. What characterized the particular style of playing and interpretation that made Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli … Continue reading
The Art of Motivic Thorough-Composition Part I
Understanding the score: the precondition of musical interpretation There are basically two types of musicians: the first ones declare their artistic Credo remaining true to the score, the others rather prefer to remain true to the musical masterwork. The first … Continue reading