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From what I’ve read, Liszt transcribed A Lot (~300) of works of other composers, often adding extra embellishments.

There’s also an anecdote brought up in Harold Schonberg’s “Great Pianists” that in 1843 Liszt gave a concert of one of Chopin’s Nocturnes with extra ornaments. Chopin was cross with him, saying that music should be played as written, after which Liszt embraced Chopin and apologized, saying “Works like yours should not be meddled with”.

One extra fun fact is that Chopin’s childhood nickname was Fryc, and honestly I drew this comic just so I could draw someone calling him that : D

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Hopefully this is a little harder than the last one!

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Contre-bass Player (Le joueur de contre-basse) by Alphonse Legros (French, 1837-1911)

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“Fast Asleep” Funki Porcini

#GODDDDD #literally my dream studio i want this room it looks so fucking cool #i would also be the person laying down on the floor but we don't need to talk about that

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If you can’t practice, don’t beat yourself up about it.

This is one that I alway have to work on.

But it’s alright if you can’t practice for a day, week, or month due to mental illness or even prioritizing something else over practice for sanity’s sake.

It’s more important to have a good mental health than a good practice routine. To clarify; a consistent practice routine is the best way to accomplish the most during a practice session, the distractions are minimal as you’re in the same place at working at the same time of day, it’s consistent. But taking a day or more off to focus on your mental health is crucial to avoid burnouts and ending up loosing the joy in music.

This being said, sometimes forcing myself back on the horn after a slump is the only way to get back at it. But even then, those practice sessions are just going over the basics, reconnecting the instrument with my brain. And there is no shame to that.

To summarize, prioritizing your mental health over practice is crucial!

#lowkey i've always had a really hard time practicing and keeping a routine and ugh it makes me feel better when people say they do too #i needed this post tbh thank you so much

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“There’s absolutely nothing to write about myself: living has become so monotonous; I stay at home almost the whole time, going nowhere, and in general I merely ‘exist.’ I am burdened with work, but to tell you the truth, I do little, and scarcely practice the piano at all. I simply can’t get down to work. My laziness is gigantic...”

- Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1890

#man me too #i take comfort in knowing that other composers can have almost no motivation for music sometimes #especially because they're always put on pedestals and seeing them be actual people with problems makes me feel better

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one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

#honestly i have so much respect for them for basically staying there out of spite #i've only done pit once but it only lasted around four months with long rehearsals and by the end i was pretty tired of playing the music #i can't imagine playing something for basically 27 years straight that literally sounds like a nightmare

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#YEAH #ashamed to say this has happened to me a lot with the rite of spring and also with shostakovich's string quartets

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One of my favorite things ever about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is how, after it premiered, some people were legit like “Lol he put a chorus in the fourth movement like I can’t fucking beat that?” I mean people literally had no idea what to do after that symphony, so some Romantic composers literally responded by just not writing symphonies at all anymore, it’s like they threw their hands up in the air and rage quit, it’s fucking hilarious

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me: why does my back hurt so bad?

also me every day:

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Instagram is a gold mine guys check this out

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it do be like that

#god yeah this got me #i lowkey failed my last audition because of doing this

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Don’t disturb the artist at work

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The Rain (Cover) by Haburu