Author: brycon
Date: 2017-02-19 03:23
It's hard to decipher what the teacher was trying to say. "This piece is too mature for you" is rather vague: it could be an attempt to spare your feelings or a bit of empty sophistry.
But in general, I think discouraging a student from playing a piece because he/she lacks maturity is BS--especially if the teacher leaves it at that, which seems to be what happened to you as you're here, seeking advice. Aside from the unbecoming power dynamic--i.e. the teacher possesses some form of knowledge that's being withheld from the student--it isn't particularly helpful for you to think you aren't intellectually ready for certain pieces. How are you going to become "musically mature" if you avoid those pieces? Who's going to tell you when you are ready for the Poulenc, some other teacher? (Again, the power dynamic is at play.)
Becoming musically mature is more of a process, for which there isn't ever a moment when you say "finally, I've arrived, I'm musically mature." Great artists always rethink the way they perform pieces--in other words, they're always "maturing."
I don't think there's a single thing that can help you; your teacher, however, should be guiding you through the process of interpretation. And as you learn more about music, composers, art, life, etc., you may find the interpretive process becomes richer. A few years ago, for instance, I took a year-long compositional harmony course taught by a Boulanger disciple; it made me rethink the way I play music in general (I developed a finer ear for harmonic color by way of chord voicings, doublings, and spacings) and French music in particular. So perhaps reading, listening, and attending concerts could be a place to start.
Apologies if I failed to answer anything and instead opened up new questions for you.
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