Chopin's Sketchbook for Pianists, lecture by Professor David Witten
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2016
- Professor David Witten presents "The Greatest Method Book Never Written: Chopin's Sketchbook for Pianists". This is a lecture he gave at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University, on January 19, 2011, to a public audience consisting mostly of students and faculty. Recorded and edited by Rodney Leinberger.
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David you are the best! I am listening to this in 2020 instead of your talk today 6/27 because I had the wrong time. We miss you.
Me being an elderly amateur with less than a tiny drop of talent, lamentably, untalentably, devoted to classical music in general and piano music AND playing, in particular, I am soooo grateful!.
I have just learned in a wonderfully presented 38.36 minutes more than I have learned in years of studies with so called professional teachers.
And most of it is so SIMPLE. The main thing I have to get used to now is to learn to combine low wrist plus pinky appogiaturas, also bass lines in waltzes, bass lines in pieces like Mozart's rondo alla turka, Bach's Prelude to a min (2nd) English Suite, or Chopin's op 66, or Schubert's Eb impromptu. etc.
This is often in alternation with the lowering of the wrist on the THUMB, and one can get used to completely disengage the two patterns, I mean, the downbeat, like the appogiatura, with a low wrist, be it Either on the pinky OR the thumb, or, for that matter, any other of the countless fingers.
My dear comrades, who are wasting their lives on practicing those masterworks, dont be afraid to let the wrist sink and pinky grasp the key! you have to get used to the coordination, but the prize is huge!
LOL. I mean it, thuogh!
Thank you for these compliments, Eli!
Excellent and entertaining!
This is wonderful!!!
Thank you very much.
Great job with this. There needs to be more Chopin lectures out there. I know of this, and Garrick Ohlsson's "Why Chopin". Thanks for uploading.
Well done, very captivating !
Thank you, Rodney, for bringing us this excellent lecture!
Young people really love to laugh in groups like younger age kids. This guy is clowing good.
Very funny lecture. Be assured, they do not teach the knuckle breaker method in Stuttgart anymore! (I studied there in the 1970ies).
Nice editing R.L. This is Joe (carpet guy)
+MrStarsandstripes123 Thanks. This was done several years ago. I now have a better camera, better software, and more knowledge, so could do a better job today.
While looking for ways to teach the first fioritura in Chopin's Nocturne Op 9 No 1 I came across your lecture. Thank you Professor Witten, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot, including never to start with the C scale again! I am a huge fan of Faber and Faber and use the Wrist Balloon all the time with young and older students.
Dear Cape Ann Piano Studio, Many thanks for stumbling on my video lecture! I was very pleased to read that you both enjoyed and learned from my presentation. And yes, the Wrist Balloon is awesome. Sometimes in my lectures, I tie it in with the Wizard of Oz' Balloon that tried to take Dorothy back to Kansas. Cheers, David
@@papageno49 Thanks for uploading. Good lecture and good teacher！
@@laowu3382 So glad to read your nice comments, Wenjun! All the best to you! David
Thanks for this. Is the Sketchbook still unpublished? Sure there would be a market for it.
Hi! You can find the Sketch pages in Eigeldinger's book CHOPIN AS SEEN BY HIS PUPILS. It's in the Appendix.
***(not so)FUN FACT***
That horrible contraption(piano dactylion @32:20), promoted to strengthen, improve touch, and make more flexible each individual finger was the same device that Robert Schumann used and ended up permanently injuring his hand/fingers so bad that he was never able to perform as a pianist ever again.
Me not even owning a piano watching this like 👁👄👁
Well, to describe Alkan as a "friend and a neighbor" does a disservice, he was a remarkable composer and pianist.
The pseudo-musician, as well, does not recognise it when they are listening to somebody play who does have music as his mother tongue. The qualities pass them by unnoticed.
Cortot was right: the "method" notes of Chopin are very vague and general and of little substance. His heart was not in it.
Cramer said, uselessly BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS. That is not the same as up and down. Be careful of putting the em-PHA-sis on the wrong words!
Backwards and forwards is very useful too. It's an important part of the Taubman method.