Can piano studies be played as a performance piece?
I've learned that Etudes are performance pieces, but what about piano studies like Hanon and Czerny?
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I've learned that Etudes are performance pieces, but what about piano studies like Hanon and Czerny?
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Note that the word étude literally means "study".
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Jan 8 at 21:42
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I've learned that Etudes are performance pieces, but what about piano studies like Hanon and Czerny?
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I've learned that Etudes are performance pieces, but what about piano studies like Hanon and Czerny?
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Note that the word étude literally means "study".
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Note that the word étude literally means "study".
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Note that the word étude literally means "study".
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Note that the word étude literally means "study".
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Well pretty much anything can be played as a performance piece but many of them would be very dull to listen to. Personally I find Hanon extremely boring and I believe many other people do too. Czerny less so but still there is not enough in most of them to make then sufficiently interesting for the listener in a concert setting.
Having said that there is a huge list of studies - usually called Etudes - by great composers which work well as performance pieces. All of Chopin's and Liszt's Etudes as well as much of Scriabin, Kapustin, Busoni and many others.
So to directly address your question. You can play anything as a performance piece but you will not attract many listeners if the piece is not intended for that purpose. "Etude" and "Study" are often used interchangeably so that is not the distinction you should use. It comes down to the quality of the music and it's usually obvious if a piece is just a mechanical exercise or a well-constructed and interesting-to-listen-to piece of music.
Hope that helps.
21
Just to be clear: étude is just study in French.
– Denis Nardin
Jan 8 at 12:21
9
My first time seeing pianist Cecile Licad was at a concert whose primary focus was Chopin's first book of Etudes (Opus 10), and I was totally blown away by the way it seemed like she was pouring music out of the piano. Definitely concert-worthy pieces.
– supercat
Jan 8 at 15:44
3
Czerny created lots of pieces for beginners. I think many are nice dance forms or short binary forms comparable to baroque suites or something like dance sets from Schubert. Not concert hall material, but certainly intended for entertainment.
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:05
3
There will be a lot of études containing more music than some sonatines.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:02
4
the preludes of J.S.Bach (welltempered piano) are often played in small concerts and might be considered aswell as études, after all there where meant as such.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:07
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I have taken a few works from Czerny, slowed them down and played them as prelude pieces in church. One day a woman commented how gorgeous a piece was that I played and I told her it was by Czerny. She immediately called a meeting of the liturgy committee and had a bylaw drawn up stating that the organist shall NOT PLAY FINGER EXERCISES for worship and they presented me with a list of acceptable composers. That next Sunday, I played several of Bach's two part inventions. Bach was an acceptable composer. I didn't have the heart (or stupidity) to tell them that the choir anthem that week was written by an atheist (Rutter).
I will be playing a concert on a theater organ this June and am deliberating playing a Czerny piece because it sounds really cool with the xylophone and bell stops.
11
+1 just for the story of the stupid attitudes! She liked it, she banned it!
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:56
3
I got complaints for playing Bach inventions before church as a prelude, saying all I was doing was playing scales and arpeggios.
– Heather S.
Jan 8 at 22:07
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thanks for the anecdote, that was really interesting!
– Lenny
Jan 8 at 22:27
@Malcolm Kogut which Czerny pieces did you play?
– Lenny
Jan 20 at 6:34
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The word etude means study. Most were composed for specific techniques formerly on harpsichord, then, when piano made its debut, for all the new techniques that were available. Czerny, Cramer, Bertini were prolific for the piano, Kreutzer and Rode for violin.
Chopin and Debussy took this writing to a different level, with their Etudes de Concert, and Liszt went even further, both in difficulty and Romantic quality. The latter ones, I guess would be ripe for performance. Although earlier ones were specifically for learning techniques, which is what studies are for, after all, any could be and have been used as performance pieces. It rather depends on the player and the audience.
Hanon and Czerny could well feature if one wanted to show particular facets of playing prowess to a selected audience - or could be segued into an interesting pastiche.
EDIT: not certain, but dynamics probably don't play a great part in studies. However, applying some of your own would perhaps make them much more like performances.
Etudes are where one learns to actualize dynamics!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:00
@RichardBarber - in some cases, but most are for technique. Just checked my Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist - not a dynamic in sight. If they were going to be anywhere, that'd be where.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 12:19
Well I am no virtuoso pianist. I'm from the school of thought that equalizes dynamics to the other musical factors, having studied the clarinet in my youth. Even the most technical of etudes (Kroepsch) must be performed with utmost exactitude with regard to dynamics. I studied Kroepsch and Rose under a few teachers, and all of them expected as much during the lesson. Studies born without and played without dynamics should definitely /not/ be heard in recital.
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:38
@RichardBarber - which is exactly why I said dynamics should be introduced! Yes, all good musos will use some dynamics into their playing - even etudes that are not notated as such. I feel the point has been missed.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 13:15
Yes tim, it was indeed missed. Edit your post to remove the words "EDIT: not certain" at the end and i will gladly give you the point!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 14:38
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The short answer is yes, it can.
A better question is "Is this a good idea?", and only you can answer that. Try recording yourself playing the study and listen back to it, perhaps back-to-back with some other piano music you enjoy listening to. If you find it horribly dull, or much less enjoyable than the others, perhaps don't play it as part of a performance.
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Definitely yes, but only if approached as a performance piece rather than as a study to begin with.
I feel compelled to explain what I mean by this. In theory, the above distinction should be redundant. We are musicians, and in theory, interpreting music should always be much more than simply reading notes from a sheet.
In practice, however, most people setting off to play a 'study' piece, approach it in a very different mindset to that of something that they would consider a 'musical' composition in its own right. People typically approach a study as a technical challenge, and feel satisfied that they 'mastered' the study when the technical element that it is supposed to teach (usually, but not always, one of a physical nature) has been 'mastered'. The result in musical effect is a piece that sounds technically challenging and possibly awe-inspiring, but ultimately clunky to listen to in the musical sense.
You will find that if you discard this mindset, and approach the piece from a musical perspective, all but the most boring studies (and sometimes even those!) suddenly take on a life of their own, and become very musical and interesting pieces to perform, with lots of exciting stuff happening beyond the purely technical stuff. Czerny was one of my favourite composers to perform back when I used to be a pianist, and I always got great feedback on the melodies and interesting musical patterns involved, because I always tried to make that my focus and consider the piece as a whole, rather than a the sum of its 'technical' aspects, serving only as a 'show-off' exercise. There's some really nice gems in Czenrny's etudes that really bring out beautiful music when approached with this mindset, but could easily be reduced to a salad of notes if approached only for their technical challenge.
I feel that, perhaps the reason Chopin's etudes traditionally tend to be considered as more 'performance' pieces than Czerny's, is a) because Chopin has earned the reputation of having more 'musical' pieces, such that even his etudes tend to be approached from the musical standpoint to begin with, thus more easily achieving a performance mindset and quality, and b) because some etudes aren't actually that technically challenging to begin with (at least not in the physical sense -- many of Chopin's etudes are exercises in producing a specific musical effect, such as the standing out of an inner melody, rather than technical exercises in speed or finger stretch).
Finally, just to get a bit more provocative here, I will directly contradict the (currently) accepted answer as regards Hanon. If you simply approach it as practicing slightly more elaborate scales, then of course there's no performance value there. But this goes directly against what it means to be a musician. A good pianist / musician can find musical meaning and bring about beauty, even in a Hanon study. It's all about the interpretation, and how you approach a piece. Alas, part of the bigger problem here is that even professional teachers and performers tend to approach these simply as 'finger strength' exercises, so there's not that many positive examples out in the wild to be inspired from. But if you make a point of trying to bring out the music even in something as simple and structured as a Hanon study, it will serve you a lot better in the long run than if you approached them purely as 'finger stretching exercises'.
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There is no rule for what should or should not make it into a performance. If your audience begins to leave the room or fall asleep, you may have gone wrong somewhere, and I am not sure that's even true.
I have given on one occasion a recital strictly made of Etudes & Study pieces. In that concert, the only reason why I played some Czerny & Hanon pieces was to help listeners appreciate the genius of other composers like Chopin, who could write study pieces that were also masterpieces as opposed to sounding "just" like studies.
Note also that Liszt wrote some Etudes named "Concert Etudes" where the explicit intent was for them to be performance pieces. In fact, these are more about performance than studies, unlike the work of Chopin, who focused very much on one or a few specific technical challenges in each of his Etudes. Making the beauty comes out of an Etude is what makes his body of work on Etudes unsurpassed in my opinion.
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Anecdotally, one exception of a composition as a drill for a guitar master (so I am told) was designed for drills and mastery of
the concert guitar solo work "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" by Francisco Tàrrega. Transposition to piano would take the skill of Art Tatum.
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Well pretty much anything can be played as a performance piece but many of them would be very dull to listen to. Personally I find Hanon extremely boring and I believe many other people do too. Czerny less so but still there is not enough in most of them to make then sufficiently interesting for the listener in a concert setting.
Having said that there is a huge list of studies - usually called Etudes - by great composers which work well as performance pieces. All of Chopin's and Liszt's Etudes as well as much of Scriabin, Kapustin, Busoni and many others.
So to directly address your question. You can play anything as a performance piece but you will not attract many listeners if the piece is not intended for that purpose. "Etude" and "Study" are often used interchangeably so that is not the distinction you should use. It comes down to the quality of the music and it's usually obvious if a piece is just a mechanical exercise or a well-constructed and interesting-to-listen-to piece of music.
Hope that helps.
21
Just to be clear: étude is just study in French.
– Denis Nardin
Jan 8 at 12:21
9
My first time seeing pianist Cecile Licad was at a concert whose primary focus was Chopin's first book of Etudes (Opus 10), and I was totally blown away by the way it seemed like she was pouring music out of the piano. Definitely concert-worthy pieces.
– supercat
Jan 8 at 15:44
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Czerny created lots of pieces for beginners. I think many are nice dance forms or short binary forms comparable to baroque suites or something like dance sets from Schubert. Not concert hall material, but certainly intended for entertainment.
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:05
3
There will be a lot of études containing more music than some sonatines.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:02
4
the preludes of J.S.Bach (welltempered piano) are often played in small concerts and might be considered aswell as études, after all there where meant as such.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:07
|
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Well pretty much anything can be played as a performance piece but many of them would be very dull to listen to. Personally I find Hanon extremely boring and I believe many other people do too. Czerny less so but still there is not enough in most of them to make then sufficiently interesting for the listener in a concert setting.
Having said that there is a huge list of studies - usually called Etudes - by great composers which work well as performance pieces. All of Chopin's and Liszt's Etudes as well as much of Scriabin, Kapustin, Busoni and many others.
So to directly address your question. You can play anything as a performance piece but you will not attract many listeners if the piece is not intended for that purpose. "Etude" and "Study" are often used interchangeably so that is not the distinction you should use. It comes down to the quality of the music and it's usually obvious if a piece is just a mechanical exercise or a well-constructed and interesting-to-listen-to piece of music.
Hope that helps.
21
Just to be clear: étude is just study in French.
– Denis Nardin
Jan 8 at 12:21
9
My first time seeing pianist Cecile Licad was at a concert whose primary focus was Chopin's first book of Etudes (Opus 10), and I was totally blown away by the way it seemed like she was pouring music out of the piano. Definitely concert-worthy pieces.
– supercat
Jan 8 at 15:44
3
Czerny created lots of pieces for beginners. I think many are nice dance forms or short binary forms comparable to baroque suites or something like dance sets from Schubert. Not concert hall material, but certainly intended for entertainment.
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:05
3
There will be a lot of études containing more music than some sonatines.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:02
4
the preludes of J.S.Bach (welltempered piano) are often played in small concerts and might be considered aswell as études, after all there where meant as such.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:07
|
show 1 more comment
Well pretty much anything can be played as a performance piece but many of them would be very dull to listen to. Personally I find Hanon extremely boring and I believe many other people do too. Czerny less so but still there is not enough in most of them to make then sufficiently interesting for the listener in a concert setting.
Having said that there is a huge list of studies - usually called Etudes - by great composers which work well as performance pieces. All of Chopin's and Liszt's Etudes as well as much of Scriabin, Kapustin, Busoni and many others.
So to directly address your question. You can play anything as a performance piece but you will not attract many listeners if the piece is not intended for that purpose. "Etude" and "Study" are often used interchangeably so that is not the distinction you should use. It comes down to the quality of the music and it's usually obvious if a piece is just a mechanical exercise or a well-constructed and interesting-to-listen-to piece of music.
Hope that helps.
Well pretty much anything can be played as a performance piece but many of them would be very dull to listen to. Personally I find Hanon extremely boring and I believe many other people do too. Czerny less so but still there is not enough in most of them to make then sufficiently interesting for the listener in a concert setting.
Having said that there is a huge list of studies - usually called Etudes - by great composers which work well as performance pieces. All of Chopin's and Liszt's Etudes as well as much of Scriabin, Kapustin, Busoni and many others.
So to directly address your question. You can play anything as a performance piece but you will not attract many listeners if the piece is not intended for that purpose. "Etude" and "Study" are often used interchangeably so that is not the distinction you should use. It comes down to the quality of the music and it's usually obvious if a piece is just a mechanical exercise or a well-constructed and interesting-to-listen-to piece of music.
Hope that helps.
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Just to be clear: étude is just study in French.
– Denis Nardin
Jan 8 at 12:21
9
My first time seeing pianist Cecile Licad was at a concert whose primary focus was Chopin's first book of Etudes (Opus 10), and I was totally blown away by the way it seemed like she was pouring music out of the piano. Definitely concert-worthy pieces.
– supercat
Jan 8 at 15:44
3
Czerny created lots of pieces for beginners. I think many are nice dance forms or short binary forms comparable to baroque suites or something like dance sets from Schubert. Not concert hall material, but certainly intended for entertainment.
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:05
3
There will be a lot of études containing more music than some sonatines.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:02
4
the preludes of J.S.Bach (welltempered piano) are often played in small concerts and might be considered aswell as études, after all there where meant as such.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:07
|
show 1 more comment
21
Just to be clear: étude is just study in French.
– Denis Nardin
Jan 8 at 12:21
9
My first time seeing pianist Cecile Licad was at a concert whose primary focus was Chopin's first book of Etudes (Opus 10), and I was totally blown away by the way it seemed like she was pouring music out of the piano. Definitely concert-worthy pieces.
– supercat
Jan 8 at 15:44
3
Czerny created lots of pieces for beginners. I think many are nice dance forms or short binary forms comparable to baroque suites or something like dance sets from Schubert. Not concert hall material, but certainly intended for entertainment.
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:05
3
There will be a lot of études containing more music than some sonatines.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:02
4
the preludes of J.S.Bach (welltempered piano) are often played in small concerts and might be considered aswell as études, after all there where meant as such.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:07
21
21
Just to be clear: étude is just study in French.
– Denis Nardin
Jan 8 at 12:21
Just to be clear: étude is just study in French.
– Denis Nardin
Jan 8 at 12:21
9
9
My first time seeing pianist Cecile Licad was at a concert whose primary focus was Chopin's first book of Etudes (Opus 10), and I was totally blown away by the way it seemed like she was pouring music out of the piano. Definitely concert-worthy pieces.
– supercat
Jan 8 at 15:44
My first time seeing pianist Cecile Licad was at a concert whose primary focus was Chopin's first book of Etudes (Opus 10), and I was totally blown away by the way it seemed like she was pouring music out of the piano. Definitely concert-worthy pieces.
– supercat
Jan 8 at 15:44
3
3
Czerny created lots of pieces for beginners. I think many are nice dance forms or short binary forms comparable to baroque suites or something like dance sets from Schubert. Not concert hall material, but certainly intended for entertainment.
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:05
Czerny created lots of pieces for beginners. I think many are nice dance forms or short binary forms comparable to baroque suites or something like dance sets from Schubert. Not concert hall material, but certainly intended for entertainment.
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:05
3
3
There will be a lot of études containing more music than some sonatines.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:02
There will be a lot of études containing more music than some sonatines.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:02
4
4
the preludes of J.S.Bach (welltempered piano) are often played in small concerts and might be considered aswell as études, after all there where meant as such.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:07
the preludes of J.S.Bach (welltempered piano) are often played in small concerts and might be considered aswell as études, after all there where meant as such.
– Albrecht Hügli
Jan 8 at 21:07
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I have taken a few works from Czerny, slowed them down and played them as prelude pieces in church. One day a woman commented how gorgeous a piece was that I played and I told her it was by Czerny. She immediately called a meeting of the liturgy committee and had a bylaw drawn up stating that the organist shall NOT PLAY FINGER EXERCISES for worship and they presented me with a list of acceptable composers. That next Sunday, I played several of Bach's two part inventions. Bach was an acceptable composer. I didn't have the heart (or stupidity) to tell them that the choir anthem that week was written by an atheist (Rutter).
I will be playing a concert on a theater organ this June and am deliberating playing a Czerny piece because it sounds really cool with the xylophone and bell stops.
11
+1 just for the story of the stupid attitudes! She liked it, she banned it!
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:56
3
I got complaints for playing Bach inventions before church as a prelude, saying all I was doing was playing scales and arpeggios.
– Heather S.
Jan 8 at 22:07
2
thanks for the anecdote, that was really interesting!
– Lenny
Jan 8 at 22:27
@Malcolm Kogut which Czerny pieces did you play?
– Lenny
Jan 20 at 6:34
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I have taken a few works from Czerny, slowed them down and played them as prelude pieces in church. One day a woman commented how gorgeous a piece was that I played and I told her it was by Czerny. She immediately called a meeting of the liturgy committee and had a bylaw drawn up stating that the organist shall NOT PLAY FINGER EXERCISES for worship and they presented me with a list of acceptable composers. That next Sunday, I played several of Bach's two part inventions. Bach was an acceptable composer. I didn't have the heart (or stupidity) to tell them that the choir anthem that week was written by an atheist (Rutter).
I will be playing a concert on a theater organ this June and am deliberating playing a Czerny piece because it sounds really cool with the xylophone and bell stops.
11
+1 just for the story of the stupid attitudes! She liked it, she banned it!
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:56
3
I got complaints for playing Bach inventions before church as a prelude, saying all I was doing was playing scales and arpeggios.
– Heather S.
Jan 8 at 22:07
2
thanks for the anecdote, that was really interesting!
– Lenny
Jan 8 at 22:27
@Malcolm Kogut which Czerny pieces did you play?
– Lenny
Jan 20 at 6:34
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I have taken a few works from Czerny, slowed them down and played them as prelude pieces in church. One day a woman commented how gorgeous a piece was that I played and I told her it was by Czerny. She immediately called a meeting of the liturgy committee and had a bylaw drawn up stating that the organist shall NOT PLAY FINGER EXERCISES for worship and they presented me with a list of acceptable composers. That next Sunday, I played several of Bach's two part inventions. Bach was an acceptable composer. I didn't have the heart (or stupidity) to tell them that the choir anthem that week was written by an atheist (Rutter).
I will be playing a concert on a theater organ this June and am deliberating playing a Czerny piece because it sounds really cool with the xylophone and bell stops.
I have taken a few works from Czerny, slowed them down and played them as prelude pieces in church. One day a woman commented how gorgeous a piece was that I played and I told her it was by Czerny. She immediately called a meeting of the liturgy committee and had a bylaw drawn up stating that the organist shall NOT PLAY FINGER EXERCISES for worship and they presented me with a list of acceptable composers. That next Sunday, I played several of Bach's two part inventions. Bach was an acceptable composer. I didn't have the heart (or stupidity) to tell them that the choir anthem that week was written by an atheist (Rutter).
I will be playing a concert on a theater organ this June and am deliberating playing a Czerny piece because it sounds really cool with the xylophone and bell stops.
answered Jan 8 at 18:47
Malcolm KogutMalcolm Kogut
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+1 just for the story of the stupid attitudes! She liked it, she banned it!
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:56
3
I got complaints for playing Bach inventions before church as a prelude, saying all I was doing was playing scales and arpeggios.
– Heather S.
Jan 8 at 22:07
2
thanks for the anecdote, that was really interesting!
– Lenny
Jan 8 at 22:27
@Malcolm Kogut which Czerny pieces did you play?
– Lenny
Jan 20 at 6:34
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11
+1 just for the story of the stupid attitudes! She liked it, she banned it!
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:56
3
I got complaints for playing Bach inventions before church as a prelude, saying all I was doing was playing scales and arpeggios.
– Heather S.
Jan 8 at 22:07
2
thanks for the anecdote, that was really interesting!
– Lenny
Jan 8 at 22:27
@Malcolm Kogut which Czerny pieces did you play?
– Lenny
Jan 20 at 6:34
11
11
+1 just for the story of the stupid attitudes! She liked it, she banned it!
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:56
+1 just for the story of the stupid attitudes! She liked it, she banned it!
– Michael Curtis
Jan 8 at 18:56
3
3
I got complaints for playing Bach inventions before church as a prelude, saying all I was doing was playing scales and arpeggios.
– Heather S.
Jan 8 at 22:07
I got complaints for playing Bach inventions before church as a prelude, saying all I was doing was playing scales and arpeggios.
– Heather S.
Jan 8 at 22:07
2
2
thanks for the anecdote, that was really interesting!
– Lenny
Jan 8 at 22:27
thanks for the anecdote, that was really interesting!
– Lenny
Jan 8 at 22:27
@Malcolm Kogut which Czerny pieces did you play?
– Lenny
Jan 20 at 6:34
@Malcolm Kogut which Czerny pieces did you play?
– Lenny
Jan 20 at 6:34
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The word etude means study. Most were composed for specific techniques formerly on harpsichord, then, when piano made its debut, for all the new techniques that were available. Czerny, Cramer, Bertini were prolific for the piano, Kreutzer and Rode for violin.
Chopin and Debussy took this writing to a different level, with their Etudes de Concert, and Liszt went even further, both in difficulty and Romantic quality. The latter ones, I guess would be ripe for performance. Although earlier ones were specifically for learning techniques, which is what studies are for, after all, any could be and have been used as performance pieces. It rather depends on the player and the audience.
Hanon and Czerny could well feature if one wanted to show particular facets of playing prowess to a selected audience - or could be segued into an interesting pastiche.
EDIT: not certain, but dynamics probably don't play a great part in studies. However, applying some of your own would perhaps make them much more like performances.
Etudes are where one learns to actualize dynamics!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:00
@RichardBarber - in some cases, but most are for technique. Just checked my Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist - not a dynamic in sight. If they were going to be anywhere, that'd be where.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 12:19
Well I am no virtuoso pianist. I'm from the school of thought that equalizes dynamics to the other musical factors, having studied the clarinet in my youth. Even the most technical of etudes (Kroepsch) must be performed with utmost exactitude with regard to dynamics. I studied Kroepsch and Rose under a few teachers, and all of them expected as much during the lesson. Studies born without and played without dynamics should definitely /not/ be heard in recital.
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:38
@RichardBarber - which is exactly why I said dynamics should be introduced! Yes, all good musos will use some dynamics into their playing - even etudes that are not notated as such. I feel the point has been missed.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 13:15
Yes tim, it was indeed missed. Edit your post to remove the words "EDIT: not certain" at the end and i will gladly give you the point!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 14:38
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The word etude means study. Most were composed for specific techniques formerly on harpsichord, then, when piano made its debut, for all the new techniques that were available. Czerny, Cramer, Bertini were prolific for the piano, Kreutzer and Rode for violin.
Chopin and Debussy took this writing to a different level, with their Etudes de Concert, and Liszt went even further, both in difficulty and Romantic quality. The latter ones, I guess would be ripe for performance. Although earlier ones were specifically for learning techniques, which is what studies are for, after all, any could be and have been used as performance pieces. It rather depends on the player and the audience.
Hanon and Czerny could well feature if one wanted to show particular facets of playing prowess to a selected audience - or could be segued into an interesting pastiche.
EDIT: not certain, but dynamics probably don't play a great part in studies. However, applying some of your own would perhaps make them much more like performances.
Etudes are where one learns to actualize dynamics!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:00
@RichardBarber - in some cases, but most are for technique. Just checked my Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist - not a dynamic in sight. If they were going to be anywhere, that'd be where.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 12:19
Well I am no virtuoso pianist. I'm from the school of thought that equalizes dynamics to the other musical factors, having studied the clarinet in my youth. Even the most technical of etudes (Kroepsch) must be performed with utmost exactitude with regard to dynamics. I studied Kroepsch and Rose under a few teachers, and all of them expected as much during the lesson. Studies born without and played without dynamics should definitely /not/ be heard in recital.
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:38
@RichardBarber - which is exactly why I said dynamics should be introduced! Yes, all good musos will use some dynamics into their playing - even etudes that are not notated as such. I feel the point has been missed.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 13:15
Yes tim, it was indeed missed. Edit your post to remove the words "EDIT: not certain" at the end and i will gladly give you the point!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 14:38
|
show 2 more comments
The word etude means study. Most were composed for specific techniques formerly on harpsichord, then, when piano made its debut, for all the new techniques that were available. Czerny, Cramer, Bertini were prolific for the piano, Kreutzer and Rode for violin.
Chopin and Debussy took this writing to a different level, with their Etudes de Concert, and Liszt went even further, both in difficulty and Romantic quality. The latter ones, I guess would be ripe for performance. Although earlier ones were specifically for learning techniques, which is what studies are for, after all, any could be and have been used as performance pieces. It rather depends on the player and the audience.
Hanon and Czerny could well feature if one wanted to show particular facets of playing prowess to a selected audience - or could be segued into an interesting pastiche.
EDIT: not certain, but dynamics probably don't play a great part in studies. However, applying some of your own would perhaps make them much more like performances.
The word etude means study. Most were composed for specific techniques formerly on harpsichord, then, when piano made its debut, for all the new techniques that were available. Czerny, Cramer, Bertini were prolific for the piano, Kreutzer and Rode for violin.
Chopin and Debussy took this writing to a different level, with their Etudes de Concert, and Liszt went even further, both in difficulty and Romantic quality. The latter ones, I guess would be ripe for performance. Although earlier ones were specifically for learning techniques, which is what studies are for, after all, any could be and have been used as performance pieces. It rather depends on the player and the audience.
Hanon and Czerny could well feature if one wanted to show particular facets of playing prowess to a selected audience - or could be segued into an interesting pastiche.
EDIT: not certain, but dynamics probably don't play a great part in studies. However, applying some of your own would perhaps make them much more like performances.
edited Jan 8 at 16:26
answered Jan 8 at 11:42
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Etudes are where one learns to actualize dynamics!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:00
@RichardBarber - in some cases, but most are for technique. Just checked my Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist - not a dynamic in sight. If they were going to be anywhere, that'd be where.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 12:19
Well I am no virtuoso pianist. I'm from the school of thought that equalizes dynamics to the other musical factors, having studied the clarinet in my youth. Even the most technical of etudes (Kroepsch) must be performed with utmost exactitude with regard to dynamics. I studied Kroepsch and Rose under a few teachers, and all of them expected as much during the lesson. Studies born without and played without dynamics should definitely /not/ be heard in recital.
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:38
@RichardBarber - which is exactly why I said dynamics should be introduced! Yes, all good musos will use some dynamics into their playing - even etudes that are not notated as such. I feel the point has been missed.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 13:15
Yes tim, it was indeed missed. Edit your post to remove the words "EDIT: not certain" at the end and i will gladly give you the point!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 14:38
|
show 2 more comments
Etudes are where one learns to actualize dynamics!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:00
@RichardBarber - in some cases, but most are for technique. Just checked my Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist - not a dynamic in sight. If they were going to be anywhere, that'd be where.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 12:19
Well I am no virtuoso pianist. I'm from the school of thought that equalizes dynamics to the other musical factors, having studied the clarinet in my youth. Even the most technical of etudes (Kroepsch) must be performed with utmost exactitude with regard to dynamics. I studied Kroepsch and Rose under a few teachers, and all of them expected as much during the lesson. Studies born without and played without dynamics should definitely /not/ be heard in recital.
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:38
@RichardBarber - which is exactly why I said dynamics should be introduced! Yes, all good musos will use some dynamics into their playing - even etudes that are not notated as such. I feel the point has been missed.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 13:15
Yes tim, it was indeed missed. Edit your post to remove the words "EDIT: not certain" at the end and i will gladly give you the point!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 14:38
Etudes are where one learns to actualize dynamics!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:00
Etudes are where one learns to actualize dynamics!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:00
@RichardBarber - in some cases, but most are for technique. Just checked my Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist - not a dynamic in sight. If they were going to be anywhere, that'd be where.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 12:19
@RichardBarber - in some cases, but most are for technique. Just checked my Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist - not a dynamic in sight. If they were going to be anywhere, that'd be where.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 12:19
Well I am no virtuoso pianist. I'm from the school of thought that equalizes dynamics to the other musical factors, having studied the clarinet in my youth. Even the most technical of etudes (Kroepsch) must be performed with utmost exactitude with regard to dynamics. I studied Kroepsch and Rose under a few teachers, and all of them expected as much during the lesson. Studies born without and played without dynamics should definitely /not/ be heard in recital.
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:38
Well I am no virtuoso pianist. I'm from the school of thought that equalizes dynamics to the other musical factors, having studied the clarinet in my youth. Even the most technical of etudes (Kroepsch) must be performed with utmost exactitude with regard to dynamics. I studied Kroepsch and Rose under a few teachers, and all of them expected as much during the lesson. Studies born without and played without dynamics should definitely /not/ be heard in recital.
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 12:38
@RichardBarber - which is exactly why I said dynamics should be introduced! Yes, all good musos will use some dynamics into their playing - even etudes that are not notated as such. I feel the point has been missed.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 13:15
@RichardBarber - which is exactly why I said dynamics should be introduced! Yes, all good musos will use some dynamics into their playing - even etudes that are not notated as such. I feel the point has been missed.
– Tim
Jan 11 at 13:15
Yes tim, it was indeed missed. Edit your post to remove the words "EDIT: not certain" at the end and i will gladly give you the point!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 14:38
Yes tim, it was indeed missed. Edit your post to remove the words "EDIT: not certain" at the end and i will gladly give you the point!
– Richard Barber
Jan 11 at 14:38
|
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The short answer is yes, it can.
A better question is "Is this a good idea?", and only you can answer that. Try recording yourself playing the study and listen back to it, perhaps back-to-back with some other piano music you enjoy listening to. If you find it horribly dull, or much less enjoyable than the others, perhaps don't play it as part of a performance.
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The short answer is yes, it can.
A better question is "Is this a good idea?", and only you can answer that. Try recording yourself playing the study and listen back to it, perhaps back-to-back with some other piano music you enjoy listening to. If you find it horribly dull, or much less enjoyable than the others, perhaps don't play it as part of a performance.
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The short answer is yes, it can.
A better question is "Is this a good idea?", and only you can answer that. Try recording yourself playing the study and listen back to it, perhaps back-to-back with some other piano music you enjoy listening to. If you find it horribly dull, or much less enjoyable than the others, perhaps don't play it as part of a performance.
The short answer is yes, it can.
A better question is "Is this a good idea?", and only you can answer that. Try recording yourself playing the study and listen back to it, perhaps back-to-back with some other piano music you enjoy listening to. If you find it horribly dull, or much less enjoyable than the others, perhaps don't play it as part of a performance.
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Definitely yes, but only if approached as a performance piece rather than as a study to begin with.
I feel compelled to explain what I mean by this. In theory, the above distinction should be redundant. We are musicians, and in theory, interpreting music should always be much more than simply reading notes from a sheet.
In practice, however, most people setting off to play a 'study' piece, approach it in a very different mindset to that of something that they would consider a 'musical' composition in its own right. People typically approach a study as a technical challenge, and feel satisfied that they 'mastered' the study when the technical element that it is supposed to teach (usually, but not always, one of a physical nature) has been 'mastered'. The result in musical effect is a piece that sounds technically challenging and possibly awe-inspiring, but ultimately clunky to listen to in the musical sense.
You will find that if you discard this mindset, and approach the piece from a musical perspective, all but the most boring studies (and sometimes even those!) suddenly take on a life of their own, and become very musical and interesting pieces to perform, with lots of exciting stuff happening beyond the purely technical stuff. Czerny was one of my favourite composers to perform back when I used to be a pianist, and I always got great feedback on the melodies and interesting musical patterns involved, because I always tried to make that my focus and consider the piece as a whole, rather than a the sum of its 'technical' aspects, serving only as a 'show-off' exercise. There's some really nice gems in Czenrny's etudes that really bring out beautiful music when approached with this mindset, but could easily be reduced to a salad of notes if approached only for their technical challenge.
I feel that, perhaps the reason Chopin's etudes traditionally tend to be considered as more 'performance' pieces than Czerny's, is a) because Chopin has earned the reputation of having more 'musical' pieces, such that even his etudes tend to be approached from the musical standpoint to begin with, thus more easily achieving a performance mindset and quality, and b) because some etudes aren't actually that technically challenging to begin with (at least not in the physical sense -- many of Chopin's etudes are exercises in producing a specific musical effect, such as the standing out of an inner melody, rather than technical exercises in speed or finger stretch).
Finally, just to get a bit more provocative here, I will directly contradict the (currently) accepted answer as regards Hanon. If you simply approach it as practicing slightly more elaborate scales, then of course there's no performance value there. But this goes directly against what it means to be a musician. A good pianist / musician can find musical meaning and bring about beauty, even in a Hanon study. It's all about the interpretation, and how you approach a piece. Alas, part of the bigger problem here is that even professional teachers and performers tend to approach these simply as 'finger strength' exercises, so there's not that many positive examples out in the wild to be inspired from. But if you make a point of trying to bring out the music even in something as simple and structured as a Hanon study, it will serve you a lot better in the long run than if you approached them purely as 'finger stretching exercises'.
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Definitely yes, but only if approached as a performance piece rather than as a study to begin with.
I feel compelled to explain what I mean by this. In theory, the above distinction should be redundant. We are musicians, and in theory, interpreting music should always be much more than simply reading notes from a sheet.
In practice, however, most people setting off to play a 'study' piece, approach it in a very different mindset to that of something that they would consider a 'musical' composition in its own right. People typically approach a study as a technical challenge, and feel satisfied that they 'mastered' the study when the technical element that it is supposed to teach (usually, but not always, one of a physical nature) has been 'mastered'. The result in musical effect is a piece that sounds technically challenging and possibly awe-inspiring, but ultimately clunky to listen to in the musical sense.
You will find that if you discard this mindset, and approach the piece from a musical perspective, all but the most boring studies (and sometimes even those!) suddenly take on a life of their own, and become very musical and interesting pieces to perform, with lots of exciting stuff happening beyond the purely technical stuff. Czerny was one of my favourite composers to perform back when I used to be a pianist, and I always got great feedback on the melodies and interesting musical patterns involved, because I always tried to make that my focus and consider the piece as a whole, rather than a the sum of its 'technical' aspects, serving only as a 'show-off' exercise. There's some really nice gems in Czenrny's etudes that really bring out beautiful music when approached with this mindset, but could easily be reduced to a salad of notes if approached only for their technical challenge.
I feel that, perhaps the reason Chopin's etudes traditionally tend to be considered as more 'performance' pieces than Czerny's, is a) because Chopin has earned the reputation of having more 'musical' pieces, such that even his etudes tend to be approached from the musical standpoint to begin with, thus more easily achieving a performance mindset and quality, and b) because some etudes aren't actually that technically challenging to begin with (at least not in the physical sense -- many of Chopin's etudes are exercises in producing a specific musical effect, such as the standing out of an inner melody, rather than technical exercises in speed or finger stretch).
Finally, just to get a bit more provocative here, I will directly contradict the (currently) accepted answer as regards Hanon. If you simply approach it as practicing slightly more elaborate scales, then of course there's no performance value there. But this goes directly against what it means to be a musician. A good pianist / musician can find musical meaning and bring about beauty, even in a Hanon study. It's all about the interpretation, and how you approach a piece. Alas, part of the bigger problem here is that even professional teachers and performers tend to approach these simply as 'finger strength' exercises, so there's not that many positive examples out in the wild to be inspired from. But if you make a point of trying to bring out the music even in something as simple and structured as a Hanon study, it will serve you a lot better in the long run than if you approached them purely as 'finger stretching exercises'.
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Definitely yes, but only if approached as a performance piece rather than as a study to begin with.
I feel compelled to explain what I mean by this. In theory, the above distinction should be redundant. We are musicians, and in theory, interpreting music should always be much more than simply reading notes from a sheet.
In practice, however, most people setting off to play a 'study' piece, approach it in a very different mindset to that of something that they would consider a 'musical' composition in its own right. People typically approach a study as a technical challenge, and feel satisfied that they 'mastered' the study when the technical element that it is supposed to teach (usually, but not always, one of a physical nature) has been 'mastered'. The result in musical effect is a piece that sounds technically challenging and possibly awe-inspiring, but ultimately clunky to listen to in the musical sense.
You will find that if you discard this mindset, and approach the piece from a musical perspective, all but the most boring studies (and sometimes even those!) suddenly take on a life of their own, and become very musical and interesting pieces to perform, with lots of exciting stuff happening beyond the purely technical stuff. Czerny was one of my favourite composers to perform back when I used to be a pianist, and I always got great feedback on the melodies and interesting musical patterns involved, because I always tried to make that my focus and consider the piece as a whole, rather than a the sum of its 'technical' aspects, serving only as a 'show-off' exercise. There's some really nice gems in Czenrny's etudes that really bring out beautiful music when approached with this mindset, but could easily be reduced to a salad of notes if approached only for their technical challenge.
I feel that, perhaps the reason Chopin's etudes traditionally tend to be considered as more 'performance' pieces than Czerny's, is a) because Chopin has earned the reputation of having more 'musical' pieces, such that even his etudes tend to be approached from the musical standpoint to begin with, thus more easily achieving a performance mindset and quality, and b) because some etudes aren't actually that technically challenging to begin with (at least not in the physical sense -- many of Chopin's etudes are exercises in producing a specific musical effect, such as the standing out of an inner melody, rather than technical exercises in speed or finger stretch).
Finally, just to get a bit more provocative here, I will directly contradict the (currently) accepted answer as regards Hanon. If you simply approach it as practicing slightly more elaborate scales, then of course there's no performance value there. But this goes directly against what it means to be a musician. A good pianist / musician can find musical meaning and bring about beauty, even in a Hanon study. It's all about the interpretation, and how you approach a piece. Alas, part of the bigger problem here is that even professional teachers and performers tend to approach these simply as 'finger strength' exercises, so there's not that many positive examples out in the wild to be inspired from. But if you make a point of trying to bring out the music even in something as simple and structured as a Hanon study, it will serve you a lot better in the long run than if you approached them purely as 'finger stretching exercises'.
Definitely yes, but only if approached as a performance piece rather than as a study to begin with.
I feel compelled to explain what I mean by this. In theory, the above distinction should be redundant. We are musicians, and in theory, interpreting music should always be much more than simply reading notes from a sheet.
In practice, however, most people setting off to play a 'study' piece, approach it in a very different mindset to that of something that they would consider a 'musical' composition in its own right. People typically approach a study as a technical challenge, and feel satisfied that they 'mastered' the study when the technical element that it is supposed to teach (usually, but not always, one of a physical nature) has been 'mastered'. The result in musical effect is a piece that sounds technically challenging and possibly awe-inspiring, but ultimately clunky to listen to in the musical sense.
You will find that if you discard this mindset, and approach the piece from a musical perspective, all but the most boring studies (and sometimes even those!) suddenly take on a life of their own, and become very musical and interesting pieces to perform, with lots of exciting stuff happening beyond the purely technical stuff. Czerny was one of my favourite composers to perform back when I used to be a pianist, and I always got great feedback on the melodies and interesting musical patterns involved, because I always tried to make that my focus and consider the piece as a whole, rather than a the sum of its 'technical' aspects, serving only as a 'show-off' exercise. There's some really nice gems in Czenrny's etudes that really bring out beautiful music when approached with this mindset, but could easily be reduced to a salad of notes if approached only for their technical challenge.
I feel that, perhaps the reason Chopin's etudes traditionally tend to be considered as more 'performance' pieces than Czerny's, is a) because Chopin has earned the reputation of having more 'musical' pieces, such that even his etudes tend to be approached from the musical standpoint to begin with, thus more easily achieving a performance mindset and quality, and b) because some etudes aren't actually that technically challenging to begin with (at least not in the physical sense -- many of Chopin's etudes are exercises in producing a specific musical effect, such as the standing out of an inner melody, rather than technical exercises in speed or finger stretch).
Finally, just to get a bit more provocative here, I will directly contradict the (currently) accepted answer as regards Hanon. If you simply approach it as practicing slightly more elaborate scales, then of course there's no performance value there. But this goes directly against what it means to be a musician. A good pianist / musician can find musical meaning and bring about beauty, even in a Hanon study. It's all about the interpretation, and how you approach a piece. Alas, part of the bigger problem here is that even professional teachers and performers tend to approach these simply as 'finger strength' exercises, so there's not that many positive examples out in the wild to be inspired from. But if you make a point of trying to bring out the music even in something as simple and structured as a Hanon study, it will serve you a lot better in the long run than if you approached them purely as 'finger stretching exercises'.
answered Jan 10 at 12:20
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There is no rule for what should or should not make it into a performance. If your audience begins to leave the room or fall asleep, you may have gone wrong somewhere, and I am not sure that's even true.
I have given on one occasion a recital strictly made of Etudes & Study pieces. In that concert, the only reason why I played some Czerny & Hanon pieces was to help listeners appreciate the genius of other composers like Chopin, who could write study pieces that were also masterpieces as opposed to sounding "just" like studies.
Note also that Liszt wrote some Etudes named "Concert Etudes" where the explicit intent was for them to be performance pieces. In fact, these are more about performance than studies, unlike the work of Chopin, who focused very much on one or a few specific technical challenges in each of his Etudes. Making the beauty comes out of an Etude is what makes his body of work on Etudes unsurpassed in my opinion.
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There is no rule for what should or should not make it into a performance. If your audience begins to leave the room or fall asleep, you may have gone wrong somewhere, and I am not sure that's even true.
I have given on one occasion a recital strictly made of Etudes & Study pieces. In that concert, the only reason why I played some Czerny & Hanon pieces was to help listeners appreciate the genius of other composers like Chopin, who could write study pieces that were also masterpieces as opposed to sounding "just" like studies.
Note also that Liszt wrote some Etudes named "Concert Etudes" where the explicit intent was for them to be performance pieces. In fact, these are more about performance than studies, unlike the work of Chopin, who focused very much on one or a few specific technical challenges in each of his Etudes. Making the beauty comes out of an Etude is what makes his body of work on Etudes unsurpassed in my opinion.
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There is no rule for what should or should not make it into a performance. If your audience begins to leave the room or fall asleep, you may have gone wrong somewhere, and I am not sure that's even true.
I have given on one occasion a recital strictly made of Etudes & Study pieces. In that concert, the only reason why I played some Czerny & Hanon pieces was to help listeners appreciate the genius of other composers like Chopin, who could write study pieces that were also masterpieces as opposed to sounding "just" like studies.
Note also that Liszt wrote some Etudes named "Concert Etudes" where the explicit intent was for them to be performance pieces. In fact, these are more about performance than studies, unlike the work of Chopin, who focused very much on one or a few specific technical challenges in each of his Etudes. Making the beauty comes out of an Etude is what makes his body of work on Etudes unsurpassed in my opinion.
There is no rule for what should or should not make it into a performance. If your audience begins to leave the room or fall asleep, you may have gone wrong somewhere, and I am not sure that's even true.
I have given on one occasion a recital strictly made of Etudes & Study pieces. In that concert, the only reason why I played some Czerny & Hanon pieces was to help listeners appreciate the genius of other composers like Chopin, who could write study pieces that were also masterpieces as opposed to sounding "just" like studies.
Note also that Liszt wrote some Etudes named "Concert Etudes" where the explicit intent was for them to be performance pieces. In fact, these are more about performance than studies, unlike the work of Chopin, who focused very much on one or a few specific technical challenges in each of his Etudes. Making the beauty comes out of an Etude is what makes his body of work on Etudes unsurpassed in my opinion.
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Anecdotally, one exception of a composition as a drill for a guitar master (so I am told) was designed for drills and mastery of
the concert guitar solo work "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" by Francisco Tàrrega. Transposition to piano would take the skill of Art Tatum.
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Anecdotally, one exception of a composition as a drill for a guitar master (so I am told) was designed for drills and mastery of
the concert guitar solo work "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" by Francisco Tàrrega. Transposition to piano would take the skill of Art Tatum.
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Anecdotally, one exception of a composition as a drill for a guitar master (so I am told) was designed for drills and mastery of
the concert guitar solo work "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" by Francisco Tàrrega. Transposition to piano would take the skill of Art Tatum.
Anecdotally, one exception of a composition as a drill for a guitar master (so I am told) was designed for drills and mastery of
the concert guitar solo work "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" by Francisco Tàrrega. Transposition to piano would take the skill of Art Tatum.
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Note that the word étude literally means "study".
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