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Topic: Greatest Virtuoso for the Piano back in Classical and Romantic Periods  (Read 8372 times)

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Re: Greatest Virtuoso for the Piano back in Classical and Romantic Periods
Reply #50 on: May 28, 2007, 07:41:57 AM
Saint-Saens could play any of Beethoven´s sonatas from memory as well as many other works when was 11.

I wonder what he could do as adult?

The recordings out there aren´t that impressive but he was very old on the other hand

He was involved in many other things then music (he was a universalgenius indeed) so he propaby didn´t practice a fraction of what Liszt did as an adult.
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