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Offline william_ni_guang_xin

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Most Performed Piano Piece?
on: November 09, 2018, 03:15:20 PM
What is the most performed classical piano piece in concert?
Which is the most recorded?
Is there a piece that virtually all concert pianists have performed/recorded?

I'm thinking La Campanella, from Kissin to Hamelin, so many have played it.
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Re: Most Performed Piano Piece?
Reply #1 on: November 09, 2018, 03:31:25 PM
chop sticks, hot crossed buns, ..
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Offline dcsteinwaygrand

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Re: Most Performed Piano Piece?
Reply #2 on: November 09, 2018, 09:23:41 PM
Definitely Fur Elise, or at least the most requested  :'(

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Re: Most Performed Piano Piece?
Reply #3 on: November 09, 2018, 11:31:20 PM
Thank you both so much for your replies! but you may be a bit confused with my question.
I mean which piece is performed most in piano recitals...

Are Chopsticks and Fur Elise often performed in Recitals? I mean I can't imagine any Concert pianist playing these pieces, even just as encores. If they are than I really learned something new today.

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Re: Most Performed Piano Piece?
Reply #4 on: November 09, 2018, 11:32:44 PM
by the way, I think debussy's claire de lune is the most pervasively played piano piece on YouTube

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Re: Most Performed Piano Piece?
Reply #5 on: November 15, 2018, 11:27:18 AM
I think this is too hard to call.

If you were to ask me, I'd be coming from a romantic perspective and say Chopin's Op.9 No.2 has been played by virtually everybody in some recital or another

But then there are those from a classical perspective, possibly would say something from Beethoven, one of his Sonatas

And then finally from a Baroque perspective, i'm sure there's a Bach composition that's always played, maybe something from the Goldberg Variations.

Not to mention 20th century plus.. but we don't speak about that on here ;)
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Re: Most Performed Piano Piece?
Reply #6 on: November 15, 2018, 02:23:15 PM
too many local market and regional differences to really say in live recital
however easier to quantify objectively is played ie recordings,  streamed,  etc, and that sniffs along a less expected track ....

I have heard for years from musicologists this little tidbit , the most played, streamed. replayed recorded  and thus probably performed on request live, maybe in recital, etc too ...work....Satie Gymnopedie no 3

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/satie/news/gymnopedie-no-1-super-slow

in a recital setting for std lit also very much possible is likely a Beethoven , Haydn, or Mozart sonata of Freedy's Fantasie Impromptu



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