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"April - Snowdrop" from Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" (Kerstin Sieben-Kais...

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Chopin Wiosna Spring Op 74 No 2

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Bagatelle

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Dear friends of piano music, to be completely misunderstood by his contemporaries is not only the fate of the ingeniously gifted, but also, for example, of one of my neighbors, who always adorns the magnificent garden of the even more magnificent villa, whose ground floor he lives in, always quite unusual. To the delight of the children, but causing astonishment or even anger in some adult viewers, he has not only recently developed a predilection for pink plush toys, but has also remarkably combined a Buddha statue on the edge of his small garden pond with a water pipe. One feels, even if very distantly, reminded of the famous Brussels fountain figure of "Manneken Pis". Since I am concerned with the term "bagatelle" because of my currently working on Beethoven, I asked my husband whether this activity of both characters would be legally "bagatelle injuries". In the general usage of the German language this is the most frequent use of the word “Bagatelle

Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle (Opus 33/No1)

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Antoni Kocipiński: Invitation à la danse (Polonaise)

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Pianists

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  Dear friends of piano music,   A while ago, when my daughter was a baby, I had some time to read and came across Jeffrey Archer's "Clifton Saga". In order to train my gray matter a bit, I took on the English-language original, and I literally devoured all seven volumes - rarely have I read such a breathtakingly exciting, captivating family chronicle. The numerous characters are no longer present by name to me, but I remembered one scene yesterday: a young couple meets for a date, they go to ballet (which we can only dream of at the moment ...), for the young man it's a premiere , whereas the woman knows her way around very well and has seen everything several times. She envies his lack of experience, because this enables him to rediscover a whole wonderful world for himself. Mums like me are in the fortunate position of reactivating a little of the amazement of their children, who also discover new things every day - you can see well-known things with new eyes, di

Ali Afifi: Walzer in Form eines Rondo (Rondo Waltz, 2018) @Ali Afifi

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