The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886), known primarily as one of the first virtuoso performers on the modern piano, also inaugurated the symphonic poem and was an innovator in style and harmo...
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A French-made piano that Frederic Chopin brought to London late in his life has been identified in a collection in England, the owner of the instrument said Wednesday.The piano built by the Paris c...
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The husband of the late British pianist Joyce Hatto, who passed off recordings by other artists as those of his wife, says he would do the same thing again but would not release the recordings to t...
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Istanbul (dpa) - Missing a chance to visit a traditional Turkish
bath while in Istanbul would be just as regrettable as going to the
Bosporus city without visiting the Hagia...
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"'Hey Jude,'" someone in the audience yells out.Gabriela Montero sits at the piano, taps out the bare melody line, pauses and stares at the ceiling through her flowing blond hair and then plays the...
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One of the most characterful presences at musical events over the past several decades—once seen, never forgotten—is Harris Goldsmith, a stocky 70-year-old Brooklyn resident who takes t...
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One of the most characterful presences at musical events over the past several decades—once seen, never forgotten—is Harris Goldsmith, a stocky 70-year-old Brooklyn resident who takes ...
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“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. To a 10-year-old aspiring Rubinstein, these instructions made sense—at least as they helped me p...
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“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. To a 10-year-old aspiring Rubinstein, these instructions made sense—at least as they helped me p...
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Musicologist Richard Taruskin, in his brilliant new Oxford History of Western Music, observes that the notion of "great music" is a relatively recent one, dating from the end of the 18th century, w...
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Franz Liszt
Frederic Chopin piano identified
