pianomusic from what period is your favorite? class, mod, rom, baroque etc.

[sportsmonster]

if you like beethovens music, and dont know what period he comes from, your in trouble with your theory knoledge. yes i hate reading books too, i only play the piano

[bernhard]

yes i hate reading books too, i only play the piano

It shows.

If your poll refers only to piano music, then the (more or less) accepted date for the invention of the first piano is 1709, and the first piece written explicitly for the piano is Lodovico Giustini’s “Sonata for the soft and loud harpsichord, commonly called mallet harpsichord”, dated from 1731.

However, it was only in 1768 that the piano really started catching on and displacing the harpsichord as the most popular keyboard instrument thanks to J. C. Bach (son of J. S. Bach) championing the new instrument by giving the first piano recital in London.

In the 1770s Clementi, Haydn – and most importantly – Mozart (with his piano concertos) put the last nail on the harpsichord coffin by writing specifically and exclusively for the piano. So much so that the last harpsichord was made in 1793.

So, I am sorry, but no Early piano music, no Medieval piano music, no Renaissance piano music, and mostly no Baroque piano music. 

If however you mean “keyboard music” (organ, clavichord, harpsichord, virginal, spinetta, - but not the accordion – the accordion was invented in the late 19th century), then we can go back in time a bit, since it is now more or less established that the keyboard as we know it today was around at least as early as 1361.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[sportsmonster]

AGH! .......i didnt think of that  (i know that piano didnt come before 17th century).......still why didnt i think of that!! argeaggabugha...hmm....eheh .

(trying to not laugh of myself)

hey!.....ill keep the poll like that.....to see if anyone else is fooled by the poll....haha.....genious!
im going to make evryone in this forum feel stupid

[thalbergmad]

I have been playing the Romantics for some time and have no intention to depart.

The dates in your poll need to overlap a bit.

[luc]

let's say 'music' instead of 'piano music' and everything will be allright  .. although I don't know one piece written before the 9th century 

[mrchops10]

if you like beethovens music, and dont know what period he comes from, your in trouble with your theory knoledge.

Actually, I don't know. You can (and I have) debate for hours over whether Beethoven was a Classical or a Romantic composer. For instance, he died in 1827, seven years after the Romantic music era started according to your definition. Most of his music was written before 1820, however; more importantly it overlaps qualities of classical and Romantic music. I think Mozart could also arguably be a somewhat Romantic composer--the Requiem is as Romantic a piece as I know. Mozart didn't even arrive in Vienna until seven years after Goethe, the great "Romantic" German poet/dramatist, became famous due to his work "The Sorrows of Young Werther." "Faust, Part One," the apex of German Romantic literature was published less than a decade after Mozart's death, and begun thirty years before publication. In many of its themes it is not so different from Don Giovanni, and Goethe greatly regretted that Mozart did not live long enough to turn his masterpiece into an opera.

Great composers often do not fit into neatly defined boxes. Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert all occupy gray area, as do Strauss, Mahler, and Sibelius at the other end of the 19th century and into the 20th. The hesitancy to assign forever these composers to one mov't is a sign of depth of "theory knowledge," not lack of it.

Sorry, I'm ranting now, but I hate all musical periods. The vast majority of the music published in any one of them is severely limited and uninteresting, and it feels dated and irrelevant. The greatest works of music are those that transcend their own musical era and speak to us in ours.

[sportsmonster]

hmmm......mrchops10 reads a lot of books ,i probably shouldent debate with you, then it would not last for hours, but 5 min. (only at that subject). i have bigger theory knolegdes at other areas.  i myself like a little from all periods, but right now i love the romantic period. Right now im playing songs from chopin.

[apion]

Romantic and Proto-Romantic.   Beethoven is probably the greatest, and I classify him as proto-Romantic (at least his greatest sonatas).

[Tash]

depends on my mood, i generally prefer 'baroque' (keyboard to be specific!) or 'modern', plus stuff in between, like beethoven.
btw go and read a book they're incredibly interesting and your piano playing will benefit from it!

[Bouter Boogie]

It depends on my mood, but I love modern to play

- BB

[rc]

Right now, the Classical era is what I'm exploring. I've got a taste of some Haydn symphonies and I want more!

When I get a little more time, I'm getting eager to explore more baroque.

I also enjoy when some earlier music comes on the radio, it's something different. But I know next to nothing pre-baroque.