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vlhorowitz
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« on: May 05, 2007, 10:40:30 PM »
Not sure if this topic has been done yet. If so, come up with better ideas.

If time travel were possible, which pianist or concert in history would you like to have attended ? (include date, location, and any other details).

1 - Horowitz' American debut with Sir Thomas Beecham. So many of the greats were in attendance.

2 - Franz Liszt playing his own Bm sonata...with Brahms in-attendance, sleeping(!).

3 - However, equally appealing would have to be the year 1831 - when Liszt heard Chopin and Paganini in Paris, which forced him to...etc...

4 - Art Tatum, the weekend he arrived in NYC in the early '30s.



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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2007, 10:54:57 PM »
1837: The Liszt/Thalberg duel. (There were other musicians also playing at this concert, but history has rather forgotten that aspect).
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2007, 11:00:16 PM »
Quote from: ronde_des_sylphes on May 05, 2007, 10:54:57 PM
1837: The Liszt/Thalberg duel. (There were other musicians also playing at this concert, but history has rather forgotten that aspect).

We think alike old chap.

Also i would have liked to have seen Mozart v Clementi, Beethoven v Steibelt & Bach v Scarlatti.

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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2007, 12:34:20 AM »
I would instead have seen Busoni's Don Giovanni and Liszt Sonata and other warhorses concert.
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2007, 12:21:43 PM »
Sorabji premiere of Opus Clavicembalisticum in 1930
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2007, 12:33:03 PM »
I would  like to see little Mozart on the lap of Johann Christian Bach in London, playing the piano together with him. Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2007, 12:58:16 AM »
I would check out the future so I had a better idea what's going on now, what our place is in music history.
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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2007, 01:18:26 AM »
I would go back and get all of the lost compositions of all those composers that had them before they get lost. I would then bring them back here and have them all published.
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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2007, 10:16:58 AM »
one of the concert that I would like to attend is Horowitz graduated concert
with rach 2nd sonata and Don Juan  Cool
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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2007, 07:44:24 PM »
Quote from: retrouvailles on May 07, 2007, 01:18:26 AM
I would go back and get all of the lost compositions of all those composers that had them before they get lost. I would then bring them back here and have them all published.

That is very idealistic! Seconded and thirded! Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2007, 09:54:37 PM »
as chopin is one of my favorite composers i would like to meet him or at least  attend on his of the concerts he gave Smiley
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« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2007, 09:58:35 PM »
You would need to get a front row seat.

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« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2007, 06:06:01 AM »
I left out a pretty important one...

5 - Being a student in the same classroom which housed Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Lhevinne. 
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« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2007, 06:08:51 AM »
lol thal.  Grin

Horowitz's return to Carnige hall.  '68 I think it was? 

Oh, and I 4th retro's idea.  Smiley

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« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2007, 02:00:00 PM »
Quote from: rach n bach on May 08, 2007, 06:08:51 AM

Horowitz's return to Carnige hall.    

Yes, that one.

And the Kissin BBC Proms 1997 performance.

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P.S. I've got the DVD of the Kissin performance, but I reckon that it would be more enriching to watch it live.
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