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Topic: Chopin's Mazurkas: Such original and powerful endings!  (Read 4227 times)

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Re: Chopin's Mazurkas: Such original and powerful endings!
Reply #1 on: August 09, 2007, 11:24:52 AM
33/4.... the dynamics left to the performer. 

Contrast the previous with loud ending.
Contrast the previous with hushed ending.
Shape the previous to mold the ending into context. 

...so many choices. 
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Re: Chopin's Mazurkas: Such original and powerful endings!
Reply #2 on: August 09, 2007, 07:49:17 PM
I don't know about the endings, but I just love the Chopin mazurkas. So full of live and joy. Chopin managed to put all human emotions in these small pieces. Bless his soul.

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Re: Chopin's Mazurkas: Such original and powerful endings!
Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007, 08:13:38 AM
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach

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Re: Chopin's Mazurkas: Such original and powerful endings!
Reply #4 on: August 14, 2007, 11:12:14 PM
I just LOVE Chopin's Mazurkas! I had a concert recently and I played 51! of them...
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