{"id":11220,"date":"2021-09-21T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:10:47","slug":"liszt-and-the-keyboard-an-illustrated-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/video-picks\/liszt-and-the-keyboard-an-illustrated-lecture-11220\/","title":{"rendered":"Liszt and the Keyboard – An Illustrated Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever else the world may debate about Franz Liszt\u2019s<\/a> life and work, one thing is generally conceded: he was the first modern pianist. Entitled \u201dLiszt and the Keyboard\u201d, master musicologist Dr. Alan Walker gives us an exciting 47 minute journey describing Liszt being the root of modern piano playing.<\/p>\n

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Liszt\u2019s influence was not that of imitation but of rational solving technical problems. Liszt became a standard of definition with a playing out of biceps, forearms and fingers. Walker says; \u201dAll subsequent schools were branches of his (Liszt\u2019s) tree. Anton Rubinstein, Busoni, Godowsky, and Rachmaninov \u2013 all those pianists who formed what historians latter dubbed \u201cthe golden age of piano playing\u201d \u2013 would be unthinkable without Liszt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alan Walker’s Illustrated Lecture<\/h2>\n

\"\"Walker’s lecture shows<\/strong> how Liszt\u2019s reforms at the keyboard might be best understood by returning them to the biographical context from which they first emerged. Liszt\u2019s period 1838-1847 is referred to as \u201dYears of Transcendental Execution\u201d and music examples with a lineup of pianists such as Gekic, Bolet, Laplante, Watts, Suk, Solomon, Rosen, Tyron, Lortie and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter with pianist Lambert Orkis provide audible and enjoyable references to Walker, the storyteller.<\/p>\n