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Can composers actually play the music they write?

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iamke55
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States2806 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-17 12:37:38
November 17 2006 12:34 GMT
#1
I think they just compose stuff for the sake of having written the hardest music ever.

wtf would Rachmaninoff and Mozart do if they saw this?

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Horowitz supposedly gave up on learning a Godowsky study, which makes me wonder if Godowsky could play half the stuff he wrote.

Are 20th century composers insane? I can't see this crap becoming classics like Chopin and Beethoven.
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27156 Posts
November 17 2006 12:35 GMT
#2
uhhh... the top one is a joke.
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iamke55
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States2806 Posts
November 17 2006 12:37 GMT
#3
You're right, might as well edit it out.
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azndsh
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4447 Posts
November 17 2006 12:42 GMT
#4
thats certainly possible to play physically... although a difficult piece doesn't mean it gets played just for the sake of its difficulty obviously.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43350 Posts
November 17 2006 12:42 GMT
#5
I know that as audio recording was first being invented some company got Rachmaninov to test it and after hearing his piano roll recording he said "Gentlemen, I have just heard myself play". Which would suggest he could to me.
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iamke55
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States2806 Posts
November 17 2006 12:45 GMT
#6
On November 17 2006 21:42 Kwark wrote:
I know that as audio recording was first being invented some company got Rachmaninov to test it and after hearing his piano roll recording he said "Gentlemen, I have just heard myself play". Which would suggest he could to me.


You know what I meant.
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Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20661 Posts
November 17 2006 13:04 GMT
#7
Chopin writes to fit the hand, all his stuff is playable.

Beethoven not so much, he wrote for the sake of writing. It's playable, but uncomfortable.

Rachmaninoff... some of it is unplayable if your hand isn't big enough - but he could play all his music.

Most composers can play their own music :X modern composers I don't pay attention to, though.
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GrandInquisitor *
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
New York City13113 Posts
November 17 2006 14:05 GMT
#8
All classical composers could play their music. What, they write it and then say "Guess that'll sound good."?

What you don't udnerstand was that these guys were usually among the very best pianists of their time. Cf. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Mozart
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Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-17 14:18:56
November 17 2006 14:13 GMT
#9
Some composers, especially in the 20th century, wrote things they couldn't play. People did actually write stuff, from what I've been told, sometimes for the sake of difficulty. Honestly, IMHO, once you get past a certain point, it's hard to defend having so many damn notes at the same time in terms of contributing to any musical idea. It's just busy crap.

All of the (edit: major) significant composers to history that wrote keyboard music, like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, etc., etc., could obviously play their music. Well, except Schumann.

GI, do you mean "classical" as everything pre-modern or Western art music in general?
skindzer
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
Chile5114 Posts
November 17 2006 14:36 GMT
#10
Its piano not keyboard, they are differente things.

Anyway, arent there any piano playing programs? A pc doesnt have hands so in theory you could compose imposible music and be able to actually hear it...
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
November 17 2006 14:45 GMT
#11
hmm, Chopin's music fitting the hand? I thought that because he was self-taught, some of his hand positions were really really weird.
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-17 15:07:42
November 17 2006 15:04 GMT
#12
On November 17 2006 23:36 skindzer wrote:
Its piano not keyboard, they are differente things.

Anyway, arent there any piano playing programs? A pc doesnt have hands so in theory you could compose imposible music and be able to actually hear it...


Ah, I should've probably been less possibly misleading. "Keyboard" in English generally means electronic keyboard, but there is a second meaning that (within the context of classical music repertoire) means the body of instruments that are played with the hands that have keys set up in chromatic fashion--namely, the piano, harsichord, clavichord, organ, etc. Keyboard music thus refers to works written by Bach and others before the piano was invented as well as those written for the piano itself.

But yeah, you could input anything into any number of computers/devices (MIDI, although digital music samples would often sound better) and get it to play back any music at all. The limitations of electronics should be far beyond those of humans. However, it's not really a performance, and you'd be very hard-pressed to get a decent imitation of a good piano's sonority and any specific articulation at all, so it wouldn't sound near to real.

edit: Haji, the majority of Chopin's music is very pianistic (fitting the hand), at least in my experience playing and hearing it.
sOnagi[3.33]
Profile Joined November 2006
Korea (South)886 Posts
November 17 2006 15:40 GMT
#13
that looks really difficult...i've played piano for nearly 15 years now, and that would take a long long time to master.
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skindzer
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
Chile5114 Posts
November 17 2006 15:58 GMT
#14
On November 18 2006 00:04 Myrmidon wrote:
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On November 17 2006 23:36 skindzer wrote:
Its piano not keyboard, they are differente things.

Anyway, arent there any piano playing programs? A pc doesnt have hands so in theory you could compose imposible music and be able to actually hear it...


Ah, I should've probably been less possibly misleading. "Keyboard" in English generally means electronic keyboard, but there is a second meaning that (within the context of classical music repertoire) means the body of instruments that are played with the hands that have keys set up in chromatic fashion--namely, the piano, harsichord, clavichord, organ, etc. Keyboard music thus refers to works written by Bach and others before the piano was invented as well as those written for the piano itself.it.


Thanks didnt know that.
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iamke55
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States2806 Posts
November 17 2006 22:57 GMT
#15
On November 17 2006 23:05 GrandInquisitor wrote:
All classical composers could play their music. What, they write it and then say "Guess that'll sound good."?

What you don't udnerstand was that these guys were usually among the very best pianists of their time. Cf. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Mozart


Yeah, I know that and respect the genius composers like the ones you listed. Liszt could probably sight read half the classical music written before his time. I'm referring to composers such as Sorabji(sp?) who composed the measure shown in the picture in the first post. The piece is something like 4 hours long and the picture shows one of the easier measures. The score is supposedly 7 inches thick, which is another thing that makes me wonder if the guy could actually play it.
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-WGT-Stars-
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States888 Posts
November 17 2006 23:04 GMT
#16
Not really hard to play if you know how to read music, then i'll tell you most of that stuff is chords ;p chords are when you play more then one note at a time. The top two lines are the right hand, this is for piano, then the bottom line is the left hand.
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-17 23:21:04
November 17 2006 23:20 GMT
#17
omg i just read "can computers actually...."

T_T damn i shoudl sleep 11:30 am now and i havent slept (damn you osl)
doedrikthe2nd
Profile Joined July 2005
Sweden981 Posts
November 18 2006 02:38 GMT
#18
Skilled musicians just have to look at the notes and they know exactly what it sounds like
tiffany
Profile Joined November 2003
3664 Posts
November 18 2006 03:00 GMT
#19
On November 18 2006 11:38 doedrikthe2nd wrote:
Skilled musicians just have to look at the notes and they know exactly what it sounds like

knowing what it sounds like and actually experiencing the sound are two different things. any skilled musician knows that.
artofmagic
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
United States1951 Posts
November 18 2006 03:17 GMT
#20
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