I used to have a teacher at the conservatory in the eighties who told me she had been at a concert by Cortot shortly after the war. She mentioned he was addicted to morphine and thus played the whole concert automatically and then bowed like a robot and left. She didn't mention his greatness at all. Cortot hadn't been straight in the war. The city my teacher lived in had been bombed by the nazi's in 1940. That may have played a role. She was probably jealous too. I feel treated badly by that teacher.
Thank you very much for your comment. Cortot was one of the greatest musicians of his time but he was also a very complicated personality... Indeed, his behavior during the war is still misunderstood today
The fact that he was able to continue to make a living with his art during the German occupation was dishonestly misinterpreted by a small minority of powerful bankSters allied in usa that wanted to impose their bipolar view of the world that continues even today : "You either agree with everything we say or you are against us" is pretty much ongoing today with the woke culture. Cortot did everything right as he should. His first job before the war had been as a general rehearsal pianist for the Wagner opera institute in Germany, so naturally the war put him at odds with his network of new musician friends he had made in Germany. Like many educated Swiss or French people he saw Germany and France as people facing similar perils, only enemies by mistake. Indeed WW2 started due to how German people had been mercylessly exploited for decades by the international bankSter invisible alliance and that is the reason it was easy for a tyrant to take power in Germany with the promise to free Germans from usury banksters financed by foreign bankSters money and claim Germany back for Germans. All those people accusing all Germans are behaving in a totalitarian way in wanting to make this a bipolar world. An entire nation of German people cannot be all wrong, there is no smoke without fire. The reality is more complex and not evil/good duality simple world.
@@ericastier1646 according to Horowitz he was a good musician but a bad person, a nazi. Maybe yes maybe no. I never met him. We someone like this in Holland too: Mengelberg. We now understand that great injustice was done to him after the war.
@@Johannes_Brahms65 Horrowitz was biased and blinded by the one sided narrative that WW2 was caused exclusively by the pure evil of the entire German people (and anyone who got along with Germans like Cortot) since they all supported the nationalist socialist (na si for shorts) political ideas. But he totally denies the pre-war decades where common german people had been brought to their knees by banksters, usury loans and merchands who lived in Germany and were not from german cultural descent. History is never a simple good and evil clear cut story. There is never smoke without fire and the winners of a war can rewrite mainstream history to make themselves whiter than snow and the defeated enemy an irrational pure evil. Propaganda and power reigns, not truth.
This is also relevant when it comes to Horrowitz : " Cortot showed a brilliant technique that could handle almost any kind of pianistic firework. This gift is evident in his legendary recordings of Liszt's Sonata in B minor (the first recording ever made of this masterwork) and Saint-Saëns' Etude en forme de valse. The latter thoroughly impressed even Vladimir Horowitz, who approached Cortot to learn his "secret" in performing it; Cortot, however, did not divulge it to him." source : Isacoff, Stuart (28 November 2005). "The Master Speaks … and Plays". The New York Sun.
@@TomekTomek333 Well, this is new to me! Is that what you imagined when you have nothing to post? It seems to me that you have no appreciation for good music!
@@josephli7164 there is always a context illuminating art itself. As scietntific research proves, without knowlege art becomes a salon trinket, wallpaper ornament.
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Wonderful piece on the great Alfred Cortot...
Merci infiniment pour ce précieux document !
Alfred Cortot " Le plus grand pianiste de tous les temps " un génie
Thank you!
Alfred Cortot c'est toute ma vie 80 ans , sa façon particulière de jouer Chopin MERCI ❤
Alfred Cortot est toute ma vie , j'ai 80 ans , il avait une façon particulière de jouer . Écoutez le
Merci pour ce magnifique reportage où l'on retrouve non seulement la beauté de la musique mais aussi la beauté la langue française.
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Hay otro sin voz. ..
I used to have a teacher at the conservatory in the eighties who told me she had been at a concert by Cortot shortly after the war.
She mentioned he was addicted to morphine and thus played the whole concert automatically and then bowed like a robot and left.
She didn't mention his greatness at all.
Cortot hadn't been straight in the war. The city my teacher lived in had been bombed by the nazi's in 1940. That may have played a role. She was probably jealous too.
I feel treated badly by that teacher.
Thank you very much for your comment. Cortot was one of the greatest musicians of his time but he was also a very complicated personality... Indeed, his behavior during the war is still misunderstood today
The fact that he was able to continue to make a living with his art during the German occupation was dishonestly misinterpreted by a small minority of powerful bankSters allied in usa that wanted to impose their bipolar view of the world that continues even today : "You either agree with everything we say or you are against us" is pretty much ongoing today with the woke culture. Cortot did everything right as he should. His first job before the war had been as a general rehearsal pianist for the Wagner opera institute in Germany, so naturally the war put him at odds with his network of new musician friends he had made in Germany. Like many educated Swiss or French people he saw Germany and France as people facing similar perils, only enemies by mistake. Indeed WW2 started due to how German people had been mercylessly exploited for decades by the international bankSter invisible alliance and that is the reason it was easy for a tyrant to take power in Germany with the promise to free Germans from usury banksters financed by foreign bankSters money and claim Germany back for Germans.
All those people accusing all Germans are behaving in a totalitarian way in wanting to make this a bipolar world. An entire nation of German people cannot be all wrong, there is no smoke without fire. The reality is more complex and not evil/good duality simple world.
@@ericastier1646 according to Horowitz he was a good musician but a bad person, a nazi. Maybe yes maybe no. I never met him.
We someone like this in Holland too: Mengelberg. We now understand that great injustice was done to him after the war.
@@Johannes_Brahms65 Horrowitz was biased and blinded by the one sided narrative that WW2 was caused exclusively by the pure evil of the entire German people (and anyone who got along with Germans like Cortot) since they all supported the nationalist socialist (na si for shorts) political ideas. But he totally denies the pre-war decades where common german people had been brought to their knees by banksters, usury loans and merchands who lived in Germany and were not from german cultural descent. History is never a simple good and evil clear cut story. There is never smoke without fire and the winners of a war can rewrite mainstream history to make themselves whiter than snow and the defeated enemy an irrational pure evil. Propaganda and power reigns, not truth.
This is also relevant when it comes to Horrowitz :
" Cortot showed a brilliant technique that could handle almost any kind of pianistic firework. This gift is evident in his legendary recordings of Liszt's Sonata in B minor (the first recording ever made of this masterwork) and Saint-Saëns' Etude en forme de valse. The latter thoroughly impressed even Vladimir Horowitz, who approached Cortot to learn his "secret" in performing it; Cortot, however, did not divulge it to him."
source : Isacoff, Stuart (28 November 2005). "The Master Speaks … and Plays". The New York Sun.
Un grand génie de la musique !
En español.
Solo lo mio ponen.
Not a single word about his homosexuality and collaboration with nazis...
I did not know he was homosexual
@@pianomasters3752he was
@@TomekTomek333 Well, this is new to me! Is that what you imagined when you have nothing to post? It seems to me that you have no appreciation for good music!
@@josephli7164 there is always a context illuminating art itself. As scietntific research proves, without knowlege art becomes a salon trinket, wallpaper ornament.
Quel rapport entre les deux ?
Muy mal.
Incroyable