Musicon / Beethoven / Liszt / Musical education / Stegemann on the tradition of making arrangements of a work
“I have plenty to do now”, Mozart wrote to his father in Salzburg on 20th July 1782, four days after the première of Die Enführung aus dem Serail; “the harmonies to my opera must be written out by a week Monday, otherwise someone else will beat me to it and enjoy the ::More
Musicon / Beethoven / Liszt / Musical education / M. Stegemann on the transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies by Liszt
The 1833 transcription of Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique was Liszt’s first attempt to arrange on orchestral work for the piano. In the second of his Reisebriefe eines Baccalaureus der Tonkunst (‘Letters of an itinerant graduate in music’), which he addressed from ::More
Musicon / Beethoven / Liszt / Musical education / M. Stegemann on Liszt as an arranger
One hundred years after his death, Liszt’s important place in musical history has still not been fully recognised. The three major periods of his life — the brilliance of the virtuoso (1820-1847), the decade as Kapellmeister to the Weimar court (1848-58) and the years in Rome, Weimer and ::More
Musicon / Beethoven / Liszt / Musical education / Idil Biret on playing the Liszt arrangements of Beethoven symphonies
It is true that a piano will never possess the same powerful sound as an orchestra, notwithstanding its immense ressources. I remember that at the Conservatoire we had to make a piano reduction of an orchestral score at sight. We found, that, by playing very loud and abusing the pedal nearly all ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Introducing Idil Biret
Idil Biret was born in Ankara. At the age of three she manifested an outstanding gift for music and began her piano studies. Idil Biret graduated from the Paris Conservatoire at the age of fifteen with three first prizes. She studied piano with Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff, and composition ::More
