Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!

Great news for everyone who loves Chopin’s music: Piano Street’s unique Chopin Competition tool is now complete. With all 1,870 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to the Final, you can conveniently sort, explore, and watch both videos and piano scores at your fingertips. Read more

Topic: a  (Read 1718 times)

Offline pies

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1467
a
on: September 20, 2009, 12:39:56 AM
a

Offline Bob

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 16374
Re: Musical art?
Reply #1 on: September 20, 2009, 12:56:55 AM
Pictures from magazines. That's cheap.  If you find someone throwing out music magazines, you can take the covers and make something that's close to poster size.

Otherwise, actual posters, but then you have to pay.  But if you like it, it's worth while.  Get several and then you can change things around during the year.

Good for giving people the poster idea for gifts too.
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."

Offline rc

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1935
Re: Musical art?
Reply #2 on: September 20, 2009, 08:16:05 AM
I've picked up a few little busts of composers that look pretty good on my shelves.

Personally I find a piano and scores in a room look good on their own and I don't have much desire to put them on the walls as well...  I think regular artwork is just as inspiring, a landscape, flora (actual plants would be even better), sculptures, masks, swords...  whatever a persons tastes may be.  I think too much music-themed images could get a bit monotonous.  The landscape painting on the wall and the music in the air may have a similar inspiration behind their expressions, and complement each other.

I've seen some very nice art in local galleries for sale. If only I had the money to spare :-\

Offline retrouvailles

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2851
Re: Musical art?
Reply #3 on: September 20, 2009, 08:52:46 AM
Take one of George Crumb's scores and hang it on your wall. Some of them are quite beautiful.

Offline quantum

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 6306
Re: Musical art?
Reply #4 on: September 20, 2009, 08:52:29 PM
There some works by Salvador Dali that feature pianos.
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach

Offline tds

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2941
Re: Musical art?
Reply #5 on: September 26, 2009, 11:04:27 AM
two items will keep ur room lively and inspired

1. post pictures of thal
2. of tonguing shortyshort

 ;D ;D 8)
dignity, love and joy.
For more information about this topic, click search below!

Piano Street Magazine:
“The Sound Always Comes First” — Andrea Bonatta on Teaching Liszt

Why tone matters more than speed, why reading Goethe matters as much as practising octaves, and how a single insight can transform a performance. Italian pianist and scholar Andrea Bonatta has spent decades exploring the contradictions of Franz Liszt, from performer to man of faith, virtuoso to poet. Here, in conversation with Piano Street at Liszt Utrecht 2026, he shares his vision. Read more
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert
Customer Reviews