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Offline pianodude

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Why Beethoven or Mozart Sonatas are difficult
on: February 03, 2005, 12:07:46 AM
Currently, I am practicing Beethoven Sonata ( not even a famous or difficult one, G Major). It does not look difficult but why it is not easy to make sounds good or clean. It seems very difficult to play precisely...Is this the nature of most Classical pieces?

All input is appreciated...

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Re: Why Beethoven or Mozart Sonatas are difficult
Reply #1 on: February 03, 2005, 05:04:53 PM
It's certainly the case that there's less scope for hiding flaws in some pieces from this period.  I haven't played a great deal of either Mozart or Beethoven, but I have sung a lot of Mozart, and it's fiendishly difficult.  The problem is that, although the pieces sound so easy -often a very simple melodic line - because there's not the extensive harmonisation that you get in, say, Chopin, any flaw either in note accuracy or in evenness of tone, sticks out a mile.

Kathryn
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