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Tag: Franz Liszt

Happy Birthday, Carl Czerny!

February 21, 2021
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1791 ~ Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer whose vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works. His books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. More information on Czerny     At the age of fifteen, Czerny began a very successful teaching career. Basing his method on the […]

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Alfred Brendel’s Birthday!

January 5, 2021
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Alfred Brendel was born in 1931 in Wiesenberg, Czech Republic. After World War II, Brendel composed music, as well as continuing to play the piano, to write and to paint. However, he never had more formal piano lessons and, although he attended master classes with Edwin Fischer and Eduard Steuermann, he was largely self-taught after […]

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Holiday Listening and Coloring Pages

November 16, 2020
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I have just purchased a set of Christmas Shades of Sound Listening & Coloring Book for the studio. Please let me know if you do not want your student to participate in Christmas activities and I will assign alternate activities. Each week, I will print out some of the pages for your student and put them in […]

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Halloween Music: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns

October 26, 2020
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Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked […]

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Halloween Music: Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath

October 25, 2020
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The final movement is the best known part of the symphony, thanks to its use in the Julia Roberts movie, Sleeping With The Enemy. It features a four-part structure, which Hector Berlioz described in his own program notes from 1845 as follows: “He sees himself at a witches’ Sabbath, in the midst of a hideous gathering […]

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Halloween Music: Dies Irae

October 24, 2020
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  Although not technically a “halloween piece” this very old Gregorian Chant (from the 300s!) is used in a lot of music that sounds spooky.  Dies Irae is a Latin term that means “Day of Wrath”. The words of Dies irae have often been set to music as part of a Requiem service. In some […]

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It’s Franz Liszt’s Birthday!

October 22, 2020
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Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, near Ödenburg, October 22, 1811 and died in Bayreuth, July 31, 1886. He was a Hungarian composer and pianist who was a major influence during the romantic period. Liszt was an outstanding pianist at seven, composed at eight and made concert appearances at nine. In addition to being a […]

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Fall 2020 Listening and Coloring Pages

October 3, 2020
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  I have purchased a set of Shades of Sound Listening & Coloring Book: Halloween for the studio. Each week, I will print out some of the pages for your student and put them in his/her notebook.  They are also available in your Parent/Student Portal.   After listening to the music on YouTube, the student may color the […]

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Hands According to Pianists

August 19, 2020
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Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 8, 2020
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    Today’s piece is a favorite in cartoons as you’ll see below.   Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 by Franz Liszt is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies and is by far the most famous of the set. They are all based on Hungarian folk tunes, or what Liszt assumed were Hungarian folk […]

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