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Topic: What do you imagine when you play Brahms Op 116-2  (Read 3256 times)

Offline presto agitato

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What do you imagine when you play Brahms Op 116-2
on: November 07, 2006, 08:22:36 PM
Do you create a mental picture, scene or something?

Im curius
The masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the cocomposer what he ought to have composed.

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Offline dnephi

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Re: What do you imagine when you play Brahms Op 116-2
Reply #1 on: November 08, 2006, 12:25:50 AM
I'm sorry I don't play it.

Daniel

Do you perhaps mean another piece? You sure it's 116? :$
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

Offline kempff1234

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Re: What do you imagine when you play Brahms Op 116-2
Reply #2 on: November 08, 2006, 01:02:36 PM
For some reason, i always see a picture of a misty, foggy-rainy day in the forrest, a lone man walking down the path.... I've told this to my teacher, she thinks I'm mental
 

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