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Topic: One composer for the rest of your life  (Read 10257 times)

Offline outin

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Re: One composer for the rest of your life
Reply #50 on: December 15, 2012, 10:36:54 AM
Chopin wrote his music to be comfort to the hands! I can't understand you...


I think his music requires much flexibility on arms and shoulders, and having stiffness on those areas leads into tension in hand and wrist. Unfortunately I have not yet been able to get rid of the upper body stiffness (and maybe never will completely) because of structural issues.

Offline blazekenny

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Re: One composer for the rest of your life
Reply #51 on: December 15, 2012, 11:03:52 AM
I think his music requires much flexibility on arms and shoulders, and having stiffness on those areas leads into tension in hand and wrist. Unfortunately I have not yet been able to get rid of the upper body stiffness (and maybe never will completely) because of structural issues.
Chopin´s music is very unpianistic, compared to Liszt, Haydn or Beethoven for example.

Offline ladychopin

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Re: One composer for the rest of your life
Reply #52 on: December 15, 2012, 05:17:58 PM
I don't think anyone is in doubt about my answer. Must I say it? All right...
RACHMANINOV
and no one else!


may I? :D
why Rach?

Offline perprocrastinate

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Re: One composer for the rest of your life
Reply #53 on: December 16, 2012, 01:11:02 AM
Probably Chopin. His music is just..so pure. I can't describe it in any other way.

Another reason is the intermittent feelings of nostalgia I get from listening to his music.

Offline stoudemirestat

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Re: One composer for the rest of your life
Reply #54 on: December 21, 2012, 03:20:28 AM
As for the question...easily Liszt. Not only is his original output probably the most varied of them all, he also wrote music of the utmost profundity. Also, the transcriptions! Schubert lieder, Beethoven Symphonies, Berlioz Fantatique, Wagner and Verdi transcriptions, paraphrases on Norma and on Giovanni, etc. It really isn't close.

Offline zezhyrule

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Re: One composer for the rest of your life
Reply #55 on: December 23, 2012, 03:23:56 AM
Chopin´s music is very unpianistic, compared to Beethoven for example.


Why does this sound completely backwards? I think you forgot a "not" in there somewhere.
Currently learning -

- Bach: P&F in F Minor (WTC 2)
- Chopin: Etude, Op. 25, No. 5
- Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3
- Scriabin: Two Poems, Op. 32
- Debussy: Prelude Bk II No. 3
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