What if you could...

[liszt-essence]

Go back in time, and choose any composer/performer who would teach you for a couple of years.

I choose Liszt

[m1469]

JS Bach  (he would be my first choice, hands down)

[ted]

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.

[Derek]

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!

[m1469]

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 )

[opus10no2]

I would go back and teach Liszt how to play the piano.

[ramseytheii]

I would go back and teach Liszt how to play the piano.

You go girl!

Walter Ramsey

[molto-marcato]

Neuhaus , no doubt about that :-) .

[henrah]

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

[pianistimo]

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.   

[lichristine]

Scriabin

[elspeth]

A jazz pianist for me, please... maybe Gershwin, or Duke Ellington.

[imbetter]

chopin is my first choice

[term]

Scriabin

me too

[lichristine]

me too

three cheers for synesthesia.

[prometheus]

Scriabin almost certainly didn't have synthesia. He ordered his colours based on Netwons work 'optics'.

[lichristine]

Oh, really? Hmph...shows what my edition of Scriabin: Selected Works knows...

[beethoven2]

Well....um.....I thought about putting Beethoven....but.......hopefully you get my point about not choosing him     I'd have to say Chopin.

[thalbergmad]

For the fun value it would have to be Fats Waller.

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

Thal

[streetwalkincheetah]

godowsky, anton rubinstein, or neuhaus

[rach n bach]

I would like to study with Liszt, AND Paginini... facinating duo...

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