As a piano teacher (I won't say for how long!) I found this a wonderful talk, and especially enjoyed your personal engagement and honesty with both your playing and your thought processes about learning, practising and performing. Bravo, and thank you!
Quand on faisait des dissertations/présentations à l'université, les profs nous donnaient le bon conseil d'entrer immédiatement dans le vif du sujet. Ne pas débuter avec de la petite histoire, des anecdotes. Pourquoi? Pour ne pas abuser de la bonne volonté de votre auditoire. Ce que l'on nomme le « busy reader style » (Harry E. Chandler, _Technical Writer's Handbook_ ). Aussi afin de respecter le titre de la présentation. Merci pour les gros titres numérotés. Ce serait bien de les dire à haute voix aussi, pour les gens qui écoutent ce que vous faites en ballado-diffusion. Salut, d'Ottawa (au Canada).
The video is extremely helpful. The first thing is that advice about practice and playing coming from Liszt is virtually unassailable. He lived it. He knew of what he spake. And it was his genuine spirit of generosity that motivated him to impart his invaluable experiences on the very instrument we seek to achieve some degree of mastery. Secondly, I am just not going to on my own wade through all that pedagogic material. If it’s going to impact me it needs to be summarized with emphasis on the most important points. This way I can incorporate some of Liszt’s pedagogy which is much more advantageous than not knowing it.
It goes like this: IF someone would say to Rachmaninoff "you're the GREATEST pianist we've ever heard"... Rachmaninoff would say "That's because you've never heard Anton Rubinstein"... when Anton Rubinstein was told "you're the GREATEST pianist we've ever heard" Anton would say "That's because you've never heard Liszt"....
There’s a story in Alan Walker’s biography that Liszt cut his fifth finger prior to a concert where he was supposed to play the Beethoven Emperor concerto. He went ahead and played it with nine fingers. It’s an amazing story, of course, but it shows how flexible his fingering was.
I have the Liszt technical studies and they are absolutely amazing. imo they make great warm ups. Obviously not doing all of them every day but doing 5-10 different ones each day is a great way to warm up and get in the musical mindset.
About Liszt as a piano teacher, I read “Liszt pedagogue “ by Caroline Buttini Boissier, in italian traslation "Liszt maestro di piano", ed. Sellerio. It’s a book composed as a diary about Liszt piano lessons. Very interesting.
Thanks for covering the technical exercises. I remember trying them once but I wasn't sure where to start since as far as I know finger independence exercises aren't needed as much now with the arm weight technique. Definitely going to have to have a look again.
Hi Sebastian, great video and beautiful playing! Do you have any advice that will help with memorizing pieces? I have always struggled here. Maybe post a video on this subject if you have not already done so. If you have, can you link it here? Thanks again for the great video!
I have a question. How do you think I should practice big chords "relaxed" as you said in the video, because they always require quite a lot of power to play. Great video and I hope you make more about how liszt practiced etc... because it's really interesting.
As a piano teacher (I won't say for how long!) I found this a wonderful talk, and especially enjoyed your personal engagement and honesty with both your playing and your thought processes about learning, practising and performing. Bravo, and thank you!
Thanks for you nice comment, always happy to hear when collegues appreciate 😊🙏
Quand on faisait des dissertations/présentations à l'université, les profs nous donnaient le bon conseil d'entrer immédiatement dans le vif du sujet. Ne pas débuter avec de la petite histoire, des anecdotes. Pourquoi? Pour ne pas abuser de la bonne volonté de votre auditoire. Ce que l'on nomme le « busy reader style » (Harry E. Chandler, _Technical Writer's Handbook_ ). Aussi afin de respecter le titre de la présentation. Merci pour les gros titres numérotés. Ce serait bien de les dire à haute voix aussi, pour les gens qui écoutent ce que vous faites en ballado-diffusion. Salut, d'Ottawa (au Canada).
Oui mais youtube est une toute autre science pour capter l’atention, et je dis le titre a chaque fois en d’autres mots, parfois les memes.
1 Focus on musicality
2 Slow practice
3 Memorize
4 Economy of motion
5 Emotional engagement
6 Play works entirely
Why you write that again?
The video is extremely helpful. The first thing is that advice about practice and playing coming from Liszt is virtually unassailable. He lived it. He knew of what he spake. And it was his genuine spirit of generosity that motivated him to impart his invaluable experiences on the very instrument we seek to achieve some degree of mastery. Secondly, I am just not going to on my own wade through all that pedagogic material. If it’s going to impact me it needs to be summarized with emphasis on the most important points. This way I can incorporate some of Liszt’s pedagogy which is much more advantageous than not knowing it.
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It goes like this: IF someone would say to Rachmaninoff "you're the GREATEST pianist we've ever heard"... Rachmaninoff would say "That's because you've never heard Anton Rubinstein"... when Anton Rubinstein was told "you're the GREATEST pianist we've ever heard" Anton would say "That's because you've never heard Liszt"....
There’s a story in Alan Walker’s biography that Liszt cut his fifth finger prior to a concert where he was supposed to play the Beethoven Emperor concerto. He went ahead and played it with nine fingers. It’s an amazing story, of course, but it shows how flexible his fingering was.
Yes know it 😊
I have the Liszt technical studies and they are absolutely amazing. imo they make great warm ups. Obviously not doing all of them every day but doing 5-10 different ones each day is a great way to warm up and get in the musical mindset.
Geeat 😊
Excellent video ! I totally agree with mental practice away from piano ! One of great techniques for memorization !!❤
Thanks 😊
Merci encore pour cette série de vidéos sur Liszt !
🎄Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année, bonne santé et le Paradis à la fin de vos jours !🥂
Merci à toi aussi
What a lovely studio!✨
Thanks
Thank you, this is an excellent video!
Thanks for saying
Liszt is a beast pianist and composer
About Liszt as a piano teacher, I read “Liszt pedagogue “ by Caroline Buttini Boissier, in italian traslation "Liszt maestro di piano", ed. Sellerio. It’s a book composed as a diary about Liszt piano lessons. Very interesting.
Thank you
Thanks for covering the technical exercises. I remember trying them once but I wasn't sure where to start since as far as I know finger independence exercises aren't needed as much now with the arm weight technique. Definitely going to have to have a look again.
Still needed 😊
Hi Sebastian, great video and beautiful playing!
Do you have any advice that will help with memorizing pieces? I have always struggled here.
Maybe post a video on this subject if you have not already done so. If you have, can you link it here?
Thanks again for the great video!
Memorizing is a habit, like a muscle you have to practice, keep doing it it will get better
10-4, I will keep trying, thank you for the reply 😊
I have a question. How do you think I should practice big chords "relaxed" as you said in the video, because they always require quite a lot of power to play. Great video and I hope you make more about how liszt practiced etc... because it's really interesting.
Body weight to the front try to have finger strongs and the rest relaxed
Good video, nicely explained.
Thank you
Merci!
Merci bcp 😊🙏
où peut-je acheter cette edition des execices online?
Editio Musica Budapest
@ merci
Is Liszt your favourite composer?
Hehehe. Indeed.
Sometimes 😊
@@horoffra I'm grateful for all the videos you have made about Liszt.
Good video and no comment
Thanks, you are the first 😊
@@horoffra lol
How did Czerny taught Liszt though?
Thats for another video