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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Schumann piano cont. posted by MichaelV8 on March 18, 2012 at 17:08:03:
I don't think you are off track.There's been an enormous amount written about Robert Schumann and his music...much of it written by Schumann himself. He was an excellent writer and very, very literary and wrote extensively about his music as well as the music of others.
Moreover, his wife Clara, outlived him by some 40 years and she was a tireless champion of Robert's music. Through her efforts, we know a lot more about the compositions and the inspiration behind them.
Furthermore, all of Robert Schumann's compositions bear the stamp of his unique artistic vision and out-sized personality...a Schumann composition becomes easy to recognize to those who are familiar with his art.
So, I don't think that you (or anyone who loves Schumann) is so far off base to claim an understanding of the composers' unique artistic vision and the unique qualites of his personality that underly his art.
To those who love Schumann's music and those who have had a long aquintance with his music, it becomes very, very clear whether or not a given interpreter actually "gets" Schumann's music.
Schumann can be very difficult music for performing artists. His music seems to separate the wheat from the chaff...to separate those with deep understanding from those who are merely displaying their technique.
Many performers who get the notes right often fail to understand the music they are playing and fail to connect to the spirit of the composer which infuses the music. Too many performing artists come across as stilted, lost and heavy handed in Schumann's charming and whimsical sound world (they come across as virtuoso bulls released inside the china shop of Schumann's musical compositions).
Too many performing artists inadvertantly wreck these delicate scores. This is extremely evident to Schumann lovers. When things go wrong in Schumann performance, they tend to go catastrophically wrong and since these are largely errors of interpretation and judgement, even the greatest technique cannot cover up these flaws.
Some of the most famous virtuosi fall completely flat in Schumann. It's the nature of the music vs. the nature of virtuosity.
So, in my estimation Schumann's music will (in decades and centuries to come) continue to divide the wheat from the chaff...to separate those with deep understanding from those who are merely displaying their technique.
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