Best piano period

[stormx]

I will go with 1801-1850, because of middle and late Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Schubert. 

[ahinton]

Well, I guess that it's just gong to have to be 1901-1950; after all, that was the period which saw the emergence of Opus Clavicembalisticum, was it not?

Well, let's face it, so many others use any excuse to mention it, so since I know just a little bit about the piece I thought I might as well throw in my two cents' worth...

Best,

Alistair

[ravel]

I voted for 1900-1950. That has debussy, ravel, scriabin, rachmaninov, prokofiev, bartok, and lot more.. what more do i want? hehe, actually , i want liszt and chopin, hehe, so for that i think the next period of best piano favourites would be  1800-1900.

[presto agitato]

1801-1850 by far.

[thalbergmad]

1801 to 1850 for me.

Liszt, Chopin, Thalberg, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber and so on.

I wonder if i will change my mind in 10 years.

[stormx]

Where are the BACH fans? 

[thalbergmad]

Where are the BACH fans? 

Bach is best in Romantic Transcription

[JP]

Bach is best in Romantic Transcription

Harsh but somehow true.

[pita bread]

Harsh but somehow true.

Concurred.

[arensky]

I cannot pick. I like all 300 years of it.

[pianistimo]

me too.  but if i was forced to, i would say 1800-1850 so i'd get some beethoven.  i found out in one of my music history classes - that using the terminology 'period' of music is somewhat of a misnomer.  when someone died, music didn't suddenly switch to be of another type - and not all composers composed the same kinds of music at the same time.  there are general trends though.  and, culture and preferences at a given time in history seem to make a difference.  bartok and others discovered folk music that had been around for millenia (manner of speaking) that was minorly changed but - as with some church music - you can hear the ancientness of the melodies.

[apion]

1801-1850 (slam dunk)

[phil13]

I can't vote on this! I want Chopin AND Scriabin.

Phil

[arensky]

I can't vote on this! I want Chopin AND Scriabin.

Phil

Exactly my dillema...

[thalbergmad]

Well, I guess that it's just gong to have to be 1901-1950; after all, that was the period which saw the emergence of Opus Clavicembalisticum, was it not?

Well, let's face it, so many others use any excuse to mention it, so since I know just a little bit about the piece I thought I might as well throw in my two cents' worth...

Best,

Alistair

But Alistair, you were not born until 1950

[klavierkonzerte]

for me it's 1790 - to 1850

[ahinton]

But Alistair, you were not born until 1950

...or so it may have been said. Now - rather than leaving everyone to speculate - would you care to expand on your reason/s for so saying? (!)

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

But Alistair, you were not born until 1950

...or so it may have been said. Now - rather than leaving everyone to speculate - would you care to expand on your reason/s for so saying? (!)

Best,

Alistair

[stevie]

1851-1900

sadly this excludes chopin, but it includes mature liszt and alkan, and earlier rach and scriabin

this particualr time frame developed my favourite particular language of expression and harmony.

and it excludes beethoven....sadly, but there you go

[thalbergmad]

...or so it may have been said. Now - rather than leaving everyone to speculate - would you care to expand on your reason/s for so saying? (!)

Best,

Alistair

I anticipated (wrongly) that your favourite period would be that to which you had contributed to.

[ahinton]

I anticipated (wrongly) that your favourite period would be that to which you had contributed to.

No, your anticipation was not wrong - nor indeed could it have been right - since I, like (surely) most people, would be very hard put to it to decide between the period in which Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Alkan were active, that in which Bach was active, that in which Busoni, Godowsky, Skryabin, Rakhmaninov, Medtner, Bartók, Prokofiev and Sorabji were active and so on. It's just like this business of "the greatest *** ever"; impossible to answer intelligently.

I appreciate yourindirect reference to my own contribution to the period 1951-2000, but it is very slender indeed - especially when compared to those giants I've mentioned (and many others whom I have not)...

Best,

Alistair

[hodi]

1801-1850
SCHUMANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chopin
mendelssohn

the 3 giants !