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The pianist’s toolbox, Moonlight Sonata a Funeral March?
What do we do to make the music sound the way we want it, the way we think the composer wanted it? What techniques, what tools do we use for our performance?
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Intermezzo: Bechstein being worked on.
In this intermezzo blog I will tell you about the quest for the “perfectly playing instrument”. A rather technical story but after all, this blog-site is about my Bechstein.
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The singing Piano, Schumann – 2nd. movement Sonate in G minor op.22.
Pianist are funny people: first they choose an instrument which is basically a percussive one, striking strings with a hammer. Then they spend most of their time practicing to make the audience forget that fact by trying to produce a beautiful tone and make the instrument “sing”.
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From a horizontal point of view, Bach – Duet 1 in E minor BWV 802
Polyphony is a horizontal approach to composing as opposed to the vertical texture where a melody is accompanied, supported, “carried” by chords underneath.