Piano Forum
Piano Board => Repertoire => Topic started by: everran on March 08, 2015, 03:46:27 AM
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I'm giving a friend Ohlsson's recording of Chopin's Op. 45 for her birthday, and there's a certain remark a critic made I wanted to include in the box. It went something like this: "If I could preserve one piece of music to represent humanity, it would be Chopin's preludes."
Does anyone have the exact quote? ;D
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Chopin's preludes are a set of pieces.
and to answer you question...IDK
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"if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin's Preludes." - Henry Finck
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Theophilus_Finck)
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"if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin's Preludes." - Henry Finck
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Theophilus_Finck)
To be honest, I don't think I'd be able to answer that question.
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I can. It would be the set of all the works written for the piano ;D
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I can. It would be the set of all the works written for the piano ;D
I think some works have earned the right to be erased from history.
Like your boy Chopin's fugue:
Yikes! I wouldn't want to publish that either.
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I actually like the fugue. But, he didn't publish it for a reason. We all have our experiments in the past we'd rather forget.
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Ashkenazy does rather a hatchet job on it, to be fair. Please consider:
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I think some works have earned the right to be erased from history.
Chopin is the greatest composer we got! Historical consensus be damned; Liszt and Schumann would have given their left hands to be Chopin.