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Offline liszt-essence

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What if you could...
on: January 25, 2007, 12:31:27 AM
Go back in time, and choose any composer/performer who would teach you for a couple of years.

I choose Liszt :D

Offline m1469

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #1 on: January 25, 2007, 01:20:53 AM
JS Bach  :) (he would be my first choice, hands down)
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Re: What if you could...
Reply #2 on: January 25, 2007, 01:45:36 AM
The old masters you mean ? None. Their music, although thoroughly admirable, has nothing to do with my musical purpose. After two years of tuition I'd just end up a poor imitation of whoever of them I chose. I would have liked just an hour or two with some more recent ones - Waller, Gershwin, Bridge, Ireland, Ives, Delius, Milhaud - but years of lessons ? Good heavens no.
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Offline Derek

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #3 on: January 25, 2007, 02:14:34 AM
I'd love to meet J.S. Bach just because he was a kick posterior improviser and he liked beer. AND loved God.  And threw his wig at misbehaving choir boys. The man was a genius! As Ted says though I wouldn't want to have my own creative drive eroded by him I'd only like to get a few pointers to help me think outside the box.  Actually though...I do kinda want to learn to improvise baroque fugues and I can't think of anyone better for a teacher!

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #4 on: January 25, 2007, 02:30:59 AM
I wouldn't want to have my own creative drive eroded by him

hee hee... me either. 

But, I want to pick his brain a bit (endlessly, ferociously, mercilessly ;D )
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Re: What if you could...
Reply #5 on: January 25, 2007, 03:38:26 AM
I would go back and teach Liszt how to play the piano.
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Re: What if you could...
Reply #6 on: January 25, 2007, 04:23:36 AM
I would go back and teach Liszt how to play the piano.

You go girl!

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Offline molto-marcato

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #7 on: January 25, 2007, 03:17:34 PM
Neuhaus , no doubt about that :-) .

Offline henrah

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #8 on: January 25, 2007, 06:53:54 PM
Chopin, to hear exactly how he composed his pieces to be played. Also just to see if he could play 25/11 at the tempo marking :D
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Offline pianistimo

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #9 on: January 26, 2007, 02:45:38 AM
i would choose clara schumann because she had a conductor for a father (wieck).  there was something innately musical in her head - to understand and assimilate music so quickly despite the demands of her family and household things to attend.  i don't know if she taught lessons much.   

Offline lichristine

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #10 on: January 26, 2007, 11:52:06 PM
Scriabin
"I could fly or fall but to never have tried at all
Scares me more than anything in the world
I could hit or miss, but to just sit here like this
Scares me more than anything in the world"
-JG

Offline elspeth

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #11 on: January 27, 2007, 11:53:45 AM
A jazz pianist for me, please... maybe Gershwin, or Duke Ellington.
Go you big red fire engine!

Offline imbetter

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #12 on: January 27, 2007, 01:03:16 PM
chopin is my first choice
"My advice to young musicians: Quit music! There is no choice. It has to be a calling, and even if it is and you think there's a choice, there is no choice"-Vladimir Feltsman

Offline term

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #13 on: January 28, 2007, 02:58:22 PM
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." - Plato
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Offline lichristine

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #14 on: January 28, 2007, 10:02:36 PM
8)
me too

three cheers for synesthesia.
"I could fly or fall but to never have tried at all
Scares me more than anything in the world
I could hit or miss, but to just sit here like this
Scares me more than anything in the world"
-JG

Offline prometheus

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #15 on: January 29, 2007, 12:17:41 PM
Scriabin almost certainly didn't have synthesia. He ordered his colours based on Netwons work 'optics'.
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Offline lichristine

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #16 on: January 30, 2007, 01:22:46 AM
Oh, really? Hmph...shows what my edition of Scriabin: Selected Works knows...
"I could fly or fall but to never have tried at all
Scares me more than anything in the world
I could hit or miss, but to just sit here like this
Scares me more than anything in the world"
-JG

Offline beethoven2

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #17 on: February 04, 2007, 06:47:54 PM
Well....um.....I thought about putting Beethoven....but.......hopefully you get my point about not choosing him  ;) :D ;D :P   I'd have to say Chopin.
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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #18 on: February 04, 2007, 10:58:39 PM
For the fun value it would have to be Fats Waller.

You would probably get a gallon of bootleg whiskey every lesson.

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Offline streetwalkincheetah

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #19 on: February 07, 2007, 04:27:28 AM
godowsky, anton rubinstein, or neuhaus

Offline rach n bach

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #20 on: February 07, 2007, 04:33:43 AM
I would like to study with Liszt, AND Paginini... facinating duo...
I'm an optimist... but I don't think it's helping...

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Re: What if you could...
Reply #21 on: February 11, 2007, 01:36:15 PM
Busoni,Liszt,Godowsky,Neuhaus,Liszt,Czerny,Cziffra
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