Wich composer do you feel most uncomfortable playing

[mmro]

I have to say Beethoven.

[healdie]

it is not so much which composer but invidual pieces i find if i do not really like the piece i am very uncomfortable playing it but i have never manged to feel comfotrtable playing Chopin

[instromp]

I agree with Healdie.

an example would be chopin etude no.1 op.25. My pinkies hate me right now because of the soreness, since i never had to stretch them this much until i started this etude.

[somnifer]

Gotta be Rachmaninoff. There isn't a single thing he wrote that feels comfortable when I play it.

[vilius]

Mozart. A whole different style to concquer...

[pianochick93]

Bach, because I can never get it to sound right and I always feel self conscious playing his works in front of other people - I'm sure they'll tell me off for playing it too romantically.

[popdog]

Bach is the only composer I have trouble memorising.  Of course there's plenty of other reasons why his music is challenging. 

[kelly_kelly]

Definitely Chopin. I love listening to his works, but somehow when I go to play them they seem much harder than I thought they were (even his simple waltzes).

[teresa_b]

For myself, I would have to say Shoenberg and those guys.  I have trouble making sense out of it. 

For those who have trouble with Chopin 25/1, I had problems with it too until I was told to rotate my elbows outward when the pinkies are playing the melody and inward for the rest of the arpeggio.  If you keep this sort of rolling motiion with your elbows/arms, you can shift weight where you need it.  Also, you obviously can't "reach" most of these outer notes while trying to keep them connected with the others--nobody has pinkies that extensible!  You just have to move your arm, shifting the hand to play the pinky notes, and pedal properly to make it sound legato. 

Teresa

[tds]

For myself, I would have to say Shoenberg and those guys. 

those guys?

[teresa_b]

those guys?

OK, Berg, Webern, anybody 12-tone. 

[Petter]

All of them, especially Burgmuller   

[thorn]

Bach and Schumann

although im the same as healdie- i find it difficult to play anything i dont like

which explains perfectly why i have trouble with any Bach i've tried so far, but i like Schumann so i dont know *shrugs*

maybe its become a mental block. if someone gave me a Schumann piece but altered the composer on the first page, then as long as it wasnt something of his i knew and as long as they didnt change it to a composer it blatantly wasnt like Schoenberg then i would probably cope just fine =P

[aewanko]

Scriabin and his crazy chords.

[tanman]

hmmm...
Bach.

[quantum]

I'd probably be scared of my own compositions 

[quasimodo]

I'd probably be scared of my own compositions 

~~Laughs hard~~ 

[landru]

Schumann - it is a long process for me to figure out what notes in what hand to emphasize to bring out the melodies, so it all sounds like a mess...I just don't get him.

[mukubella]

Bach. 

[eminemvsrach]

None of Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Bach, etc. is uncomfortable to play.......



......that is, if you compare them with people like Sorabji (Who wrote Opus Clavicembalisticum, which is 4 hours long!!!!) and Finnisy (Unusual complexity in his music). Their music is pain in the neck...... also pain in the fingers and ears too.

[ganymed]

I think for me it is mozart

[smiggy]

Yeah Mozart kinda for me too. He's ok, but I do have a few troubles amending to his style.

[-p-a-r-a-m-o-r-e]

Bartok most definately! mozart may have been one crazy guy but i love his music he's brilliant! (:

[shinerl]

Franz liszt and he hard