Saint Saens Etude En Forme de Valse

[rhapsody in orange]

Hi,

Does anyone have any information on this piece? Kinda need it to do a write-up for my programme notes but can't seem to find anything much online (apart from the fact that it's Saint Saen's birthday tomorrow  )
Would appreciate some help here, thanks in advance!

[sevencircles]

See Libetta play it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnIoJsLgvvk

[arensky]

According to Glenn Plaskin's book on Horowitz (and I've heard this elsewhere) Horowitz studied with Cortot for a summer, learning lots of Beethoven that he didn't want to and hated just so he could discover how Cortot played the repeated notes in this piece, so impressed was he with Cortot's recording of it.

[thalbergmad]

I remember reading somewhere that it was required repetoire to enter the Paris Conservatoire.

I wouldn't have got in then

Thal

[thierry13]

I remember reading somewhere that it was required repetoire to enter the Paris Conservatoire.

I wouldn't have got in then

Thal

You mean the etude en forme de valse ?

[thalbergmad]

You mean the etude en forme de valse ?

yeh man

[thierry13]

yeh man

Well I don't think the standards are any lower now ? No?

[mephisto]

I love this piece, so fun and definetly a perfect encore for a technicly giftet pianist.