Today is the 250th birthday of W.A. Mozart. He wrote some of the most sublime, eerily perfect music of all time. Pianists fear performing Mozart's keyboard music because it is so crystalline and exposed that there is nowhere to hide; no pedal to step on and blur your inaccuracies; every smudged note is there for your audience to hear. It lacks the obvious virtuoso challenges of Chopin and Liszt. I have been playing Mozart at the piano all afternoon. There is something so unnaturally beautiful about it that it stuns me sometimes.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Happy Birthday
Today is the 250th birthday of W.A. Mozart. He wrote some of the most sublime, eerily perfect music of all time. Pianists fear performing Mozart's keyboard music because it is so crystalline and exposed that there is nowhere to hide; no pedal to step on and blur your inaccuracies; every smudged note is there for your audience to hear. It lacks the obvious virtuoso challenges of Chopin and Liszt. I have been playing Mozart at the piano all afternoon. There is something so unnaturally beautiful about it that it stuns me sometimes.
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