Ignaz Moscheles: Allegro giocoso; No. 6 from 24 Studien Op. 70 - Enzo

[emill]

When I tried to search for any auditions of an Ignaz Moscheles piece I was surprised I found none. Looking for a reason, I think his not being popular is best explained by a post from Thal sometime 2008. 
Thal says about Ignaz Moscheles:

On average i guess i would agree he is average, but that is a grading built up from boring pieces and a couple of flashes of brilliance. I have always felt that neglected composers do have something to offer, but you have to wade through some muck to find a few pearls.

To me, it is all a matter of percentages. With Beethoven, one could submit that almost 100% is genius, but as you start to work your way down the list of "greatest", the percentage begins to go down until you reach 0% with Schumann.

  MY!!  I never thought Thal had such a low regard for Schumann..

We are posting a piece by Moscheles played by Enzo at home over a year ago.  We are of the firm belief that other viewpoints even negative ones will contribute to ones growth.  As Moscheles himself instructed:  "The difficulties of this lesson must be so performed as to maintain throughout an apparent character of great ease and playfulness"  We certainly wish we were able to fulfill that.

Thanks for any comment on Enzo's playing of the piece!


We do not wish to start anything Moscheles but there are really some nice pieces by this composer like this one: 

 

[rachfan]

Great playing, Enzo!  This etude required solid effort to learn and play, I'm sure.  Thanks for posting it emill.

Moscheles deserves a great deal of respect.  During the early 1800s he was a most noted virtuoso pianist, the other highly prominent pianist at that time being Kalkbrenner.  Chopin learned and played the 24 Etudes of Moscheles and thought so highly of them that he assigned some of these etudes to his own students.  The fame of Moscheles waned at the dawning of the Romantic Age.  Over the many decades since then, piano teachers have considered the Moscheles Studies to be an excellent introduction to the etude genre preliminary to assigning Chopin's Etudes.  So I think it's beneficial that Enzo has learned the one presented here.

David

[birba]

Very fine playing, indeed, Enzo!  It WAS playful and sounded easy, just like you indicated!

[tds]

well done, young boy! you are very good!