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Alan Walker
Registrace 16. 01. 2018
Liszt and His Pupils
Franz Liszt has long been considered one of the great piano teachers of his generation. More than 400 students are known to have passed through his hands and a number of them became eminent. Some of them lived well into the age of the gramophone record and give us a glimpse of a golden age of piano playing now vanished forever.
In this lecture Alan Walker explores Liszt’s approach to teaching and especially his reluctance to give instruction in technique. When Liszt’s biographer Lina Ramann asked him to explain the origins of his mastery of the keyboard, Liszt replied: “Technique should create itself from Spirit, not from Mechanics.” The idea is profound and Professor Walker returns to it in his presentation.
Music selections
Yundi Li playing “La Campanella” at the beginning and the end.
Moriz Rosenthal playing Chopin/Liszt “Meine Freuden.”
Frederic Lamond playing Liszt’s Concert Etude “Un Sospiro”.
Emil von Sauer playing Liszt’s Concert Etude “Gnomenreigen”.
In this lecture Alan Walker explores Liszt’s approach to teaching and especially his reluctance to give instruction in technique. When Liszt’s biographer Lina Ramann asked him to explain the origins of his mastery of the keyboard, Liszt replied: “Technique should create itself from Spirit, not from Mechanics.” The idea is profound and Professor Walker returns to it in his presentation.
Music selections
Yundi Li playing “La Campanella” at the beginning and the end.
Moriz Rosenthal playing Chopin/Liszt “Meine Freuden.”
Frederic Lamond playing Liszt’s Concert Etude “Un Sospiro”.
Emil von Sauer playing Liszt’s Concert Etude “Gnomenreigen”.
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Liszt: "I am Hungarian!"
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Musicology has frequently been roiled by claims and counter claims about Liszt’s national identity. Professor Alan Walker asserts that the issue should never have been raised. Liszt was Hungarian. It seems strange today that Franz Liszt’s Hungarian nationality was ever questioned. German scholars said he was German, French scholars said he was French, while others claimed him for Austria. Liszt...
Dohnanyi: The Pianist
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A BBC radio programme exploring the pianism of Ernst von Dohnányi that was produced by Alan Walker and first broadcast on July 27, 1966. In this insightful programme, Walker presents interviews with many musicians who knew, heard, and studied with Dohnányi: Louis Kentner, Antal Doráti, Sir Adrian Boult, Ilona Kábos, Béla Siki, Joseph Weingarten, Sir Georg Solti, and Bálint Vázsonyi. With illust...
Chopin: A Winter in Majorca
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A lecture by Professor Alan Walker based on selections from his biography: Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times.
Carmen Reyes Ponce.
Solo va a habllar? Ya me lo se
Ya. Ne lla se.
Amo a Lizst.
Your content and delivery are so hypnotizing, it made me understand our common friend Nadejda. Kudos
That hit the spot
I believe the interlocking octave device was used first by Thalberg, not Liszt.
Hungary was treated they way many countries in Africa, The Americas, Asia, islands, and indeginous people around the earth have been treated.
Culturally, linguistically, biologically, ... Liszt (formerly List) was an Austrian!
Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for such an interesting lecture !!!!!
What an interesting lecture. I think I will have to watch it again.
I just discovered your videos and they are fantastic. Thank you.
❤❤❤
42:45 what a racket!
Thank you for this wonderful post. I have been an admirer of Dohnanyi since I 1st heard his Suite in f# minor with the los Angeles Philharmonic back in 1952.
44:29. Gosh! It would have been good to have seen the score as well as to listen to it. Thank you so much fir another wonderful talk. You are a master of the art of conveyance!
34:50. Do any of his compositions require the full, 88 key range? Was this extended range not available to him? By Pleyel for example?
27:36. I do wonder why he didn’t do studies that concentrated on left hand development as much as the right hand? For example there is no left hand study for 3rds liken to this one. Why not, I wonder.
0:48 no, I was wondering what happened to your raincoat, as one can see there is a coat rack provided, and it didn’t end up on there!. I smile.
Wonderful, many thanks. Most enjoyable. Just one suggestion, please include more dates and tell us his age more often. Thank you.
I love these lectures so much
These video biographies are so good it's hard to give them enough credit. Your voice, speaking style and cadence are so perfect for the listener. The detailed content is exceptional and illuminates Chopin's life vividly. Thanks Dr. Walker! There is no one better.
Thank you Mr Walker. These CZcams videos are wonderful. Years ago I read your Liszt volumes and they were amazing in their depth. Yet, I find watching these videos and your compelling narration even more satisfying. You are such a marvelous story teller. You bring his story to life with such detail that makes me feel like I actually knew him a little. Wonderful work! I noticed you were born in 1930 the same year as my mom. I hope you are well. Very best Regards.
Dear poster, Could you please clarify the circumstances surrounding this and other video uploads? It is evident that the esteemed musicologist Alan Walker, now 94, might still be active. However, it seems more likely that you, as his benefactor, have obtained his permission to post these earlier recorded lectures. If Alan Walker himself is posting, it would be helpful for the viewers if he could indicate this by stating, "I posted these videos." In this illustrated lecture, I appreciate how Alan Walker connects Liszt’s keyboard reforms back to their origins. Thank you for sharing these invaluable resources.
As a colleague of Dr. Alan Walker, I can verify that he is the creator and originator of these invaluable videos of Franz Liszt, Fryderyk Chopin and others. Enjoy!
@@margpeppler4328 :: Yes of course, but the uploader - who? - and the time of recording?
These lectures are videotaped and posted to CZcams by a professional videographer in Toronto after Dr. Walker has recorded, reviewed, and approved them. With two exceptions, new videos have been produced and added to the channel once or twice a year, over the past five years. The next one (“Liszt - the Father of Modern Music”) is presently being developed. I am privileged to have provided assistance with the research, videotaping and post production process. Thank you for your interest.
I am an engineering student from Berlin, so I am not professionally involved with piano music. Yet I love classical music, play the piano myself and have unbounded admiration for the work and personality of Franz Liszt. My dream is to be able to play these virtuosic pieces one day, so the spiritual approach is something I can align with! This lecture was unbelievably interesting. I would appreciate more of such content! Thank you Dr. Walker.
Dear Mr Walker, have you ever seen the 1991 movie "Impromptu"? Although not entirely historical, it seems to portray Liszt and Chopin in a rather delightful way.
Chopin music is all about beautiful melodies and emotional feelings
Every Liszt biography I've ever read begins with the same sentence. "Franz Liszt was the greatest pianist who ever lived." I can't prove it but nor do I doubt it.
It seems that Liszt took an intuitive approach to playing, practicing and mastering the piano, not an analytical approach. I use an analytical approach to teaching piano technique, because I believe it's the only way to obtain "maximum results in minimum time", in one's endeavor to master the piano.
He had to be carried to the piano, but this amazing Scherzo remained in his fingers? PWG
I’m a Byron Janis documentary he claims to play on the piano the Bb minor sonata was composed on… does this piano still exist, or is it lost?
He was not Hungarian! He was German-Austrian! He couldn’t even speak Hungarian! His native tongue was German. The little town in which he was born is now part of Austria. His mother was definitely a German-Austrian. His fathers family came from Germany. Liszt was delusional if he really thought he was Hungarian. He didn’t have a drop of Hungarian blood in his veins.
Been studying Scherzo no 3 but hasn't mastered it yet
This was exceedingly fabulous. My teachers ,teacher was Alfred Cortot,who himself was a direct descendant of Liszt & the plethora of greats he passed his legacy on to. I play Stravinsky's Petroushka,Balikeriev's Islamey, Ravels Gaspard de la nuit & Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto.......... & I often find myself imbued with Liszt's spirit & imagine how he may have played any or all these & other great works. I've always instructed students that the best piano playing is derived from content;Who you've known,books you've read,places you've been to, & a vast repertoire of musical experiences to draw from. Hanon & Czerny et al are infinitely disposable in my opinion. We are constantly in a state of musical evolution.....& like TS Elliiot said" when we conclude all our explorations & wondering, we will arrive @ the beginning & know it for the first time."(!!!!!)
Como estudar para ser virtuoso? Soltar os músculos de todo braço? Falar que não se toca com dedos e sim com a cabeça é fácil; difícil é ensinar como fazer Isto em exemplos práticos. Você faria isto?
Many thanks for this! Dziekuje!
The freaking airport is named after Liszt.
I read Walker’s excellent three volume biography on Liszt while I was studying at the Kodaly Institute in Kesckemet. Brilliant and such a great read.
This is THAT guy?! Man, the algorithm Gods spoiled me with this recommendation.
@@salmonsandwich3183 The same Alan Walker who edited the symposium on Chopin and wrote the books about Liszt? The Alan Walker, who worked at the BBC Radio Music Division as a producer between 1961 and 1971?? - I wonder. He is 94 years old now, and the man on the video is perhaps not 94 yeas old or is he? The "ABOUT" section on CZcams does not say much. But maybe these videos are filmed (recorded) way back?
@@donaldaxel It appears so... man oh man where the mid 1800's a good time. Would love to go back to that time and see Liszt and Chopin live. Then play chess with Paul Morphy and Wilhelm Steinitz. People used to be so cool.
Absolutely wonderful documentary! Thank you Mr. Walker!
Excellent lecture, but for one major issue: Walker omitted the fact that Liszt actually was only half-Hungarian in blood. His mother (born Maria Anna Lager) was half-Austrian and half-Bavarian. This fact, then, should put an extra twist to his national identity -- especially with respect to his championship of the Hungarian national cause (in the nation's struggles to acquire independence from the Habsburg empire of Austria).
LAMONT was magical!!!
WELL SAID...by the HOST...PERFECTLY SAID...
Mr. Walker, with all due respect, I have the three volumes of Liszt's life that you wrote in my house for many years and I recognize your work for that (although I would like to tell you things about what happened in Spain). I think everything that involves providing data and notes on the life and work of Liszt is very good, but risking adding examples of versions of recordings by Chopin (or Liszt), as it is more entertaining and more attractive for the public but for the professional this does not cease to cloud your research because you recognize that although these sound notes are very elaborate and learned, you have never played the piano or perhaps very superficially at an amateur level or less.
Chopin’s first piano teacher was his mother Justyna who played piano well; I am pleased that Chopen’s genius is recognised and remembered. My parents had tears in their eyes while listening,now I feel why, I feel the same.
Piękne! Bardzo dziękuję.
Chopin’s music!
I must say that I am presently enjoying your fairly new biography on Chopin with the same gusto as the one about Liszt. One sentence I found in the preface that I found typical for your entertaining way of writing: "For the rest, any attempt to reveal the genius of Chopin’s music by deconstructing it is bound to fail. One might as well try to understand the nature of time by dismantling a clock."
De manière ultime, bien sûr, mais c'est oublier un peu vite que Liszt a travaillé avec Czerny, il pratiquait lui-même chaque jour un programme très exigeant en abordant toutes les difficultés mécaniques, le tout en lisant de la littérature en même temps c'est-à-dire ne prêtant pas une attention particulière à son activité technique. Quand des élèves venaient à lui, il attendait d'eux qu'ils soient déjà virtuoses sur le plan technique. Il est en effet compliqué d'aborder les mystères et la poésie de la musique avec quelqu'un qui peine déjà à jouer les notes. Ce principe ne peut fonctionner qu'avec des personnes très avancées et qui ont reçu un bon enseignement. Cela n'est malheureusement pas toujours le cas, et bien souvent la technique et la musicalité vont de pair, ainsi la révélation du bon geste instrumental peut ouvrir un horizon nouveau de poésie. Dans bon nombre de conservatoires, dans des classes demandées ou dans des stages onéreux, on rencontre cette répugnance à détailler l'aspect mécanique du jeu, Franz Liszt donnait cours gratuitement, était un des plus grands compositeurs de l'histoire de la musique, un lien entre Beethoven et des compositeurs comme Debussy et Ravel, alors oui il pouvait demander à ne pas avoir à réaliser le travail des assistants, expliquer à un jeune musicien comment bouger ses doigts, ses bras, ecaetera, que tous les autres n'oublie pas qu'ils ne sont pas des démiurges mais des artistes artisans et que le savoir-faire se partage en bon compagnonnage.
My thanks to you,Dr Walker for you're musicology and research giving us wonderful insights into music.
What a perfect voice with which to accompany such perfect music. Both were madein heaven!
Chopin's compositions are gorgeous...