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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No Music Discussion > The Classical Thread.
 
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WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

Herr Napalm posted:


Blumenfeld is a lot of fun. His pieces are incredibly virtuosic and are primarily centered around lyrical etudes. He was primarily a teacher, and many of the great pianists coming out of Russia at the turn of the 20th century were trained by him. He was Horowitz's teacher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0El0scKO44 -- This is a selection of his preludes. Pretty much everyone after Bach writing piano music tries to emulate the Well Tempered Clavier (Chopin actually specifically says this in his introduction to his suite of preludes) and crafts 24 preludes in the various keys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTm_ZnMM7g -- This is indicative of his etudes. They are really really really hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkLthJoGQA&feature=related -- This is for the left hand alone. Live performances of this tend to make me go :aaa: I'll mention Godowsky in a bit, but he also does a bunch of left hand alone stuff which is just mind-bendingly difficult.


Thank you for recommending Blumenfeld. I haven't had time to go through all of the rest of your post yet but I just downloaded Blumenfeld's Preludes for Piano Op. 12 & 17 from iTunes and I really like it so far. I'm just getting into classical music and trying to figure out what I like. If anybody has any recommendations for stuff similar to this then that'd be great. (As I said, haven't been through the rest of the thread yet though!)

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