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Re: Weber: and underrated composer?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-12-10 01:12

ruben wrote:

> I had been been totally put off the great man
> by mechanically and soullessly playing and hearing so many of
> his pieces in auditions and the like. [snip]
> The trouble is how his music is often played: too
> fast usually well above tempo markings- technically rather than
> poetically and lyrically.

Regardless of how modern virtuoso players record these pieces or how we react to those performances as adults, the first impression of them for many of us was in preparing them for auditions. It's hard to fault a 13-or-15-year-old too much for missing the poetry and lyricism, however much a teacher may try to point it out. The purpose of learning these pieces for many, probably most, young players is often an exhibitionist one - to play more impressively than competitors. That the result is often not only soulless but sloppy is reason enough that the students, having gotten through the ordeal for better or worse, don't ever want to hear or play them again.

It's good that we come back to some of the things we were forced into too young and thought thankfully we had left behind.

Karl

Post Edited (2019-12-10 05:08)

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