Heidelberg Piano

  Dear friends of piano music,   a dear old friend is trying to write a book. I don't write “tried” because I have doubts that she will make it. I think she is an excellent writer. But she is also a working mother of two small children, so that the usual balancing act between family and work for her becomes a kind of Bermuda triangle through the third component of writing. But she will do it, even if it takes an incredible amount of strength. In Germany, a very low single-digit percentage of all professional writers can actually make a living from it. Everyone else has to leave the artist's ivory tower for many hours every day in order to prove themselves in real life. Maybe that's not so bad after all. I recently read about the famous violinist dynasty of the Oistrakh - David Oistrach was known to be one of the great world class violinists. His son Igor could not come close to his role model. His grandson, however, was called the "violin-playing head waiter"

 Dear friends of piano music, the “inner child” seems to be particularly well preserved with musicians, it is probably not for nothing that it is called “playing” the piano. This fact was brought to my mind once again when I discovered that other parents could not imagine doing puppet theater for their children. I can hardly imagine anything more beautiful, but I have when I'm not "playing" the piano. professionally and privately almost exclusively to do with children. The fate of the “sick doll” does not leave me indifferent either. Unfortunately Tchaikovsky doesn't end well, in his children's pieces this piece is followed by the “doll funeral”, then a waltz, and then, in fact, the “new doll”! At first I was a little shocked that the loss of the beloved doll was overcome so quickly. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say. But then I thought it was good that children are so resilient. And they have to be, the little ones already have a lot to take. Losses, disappo

Dear friends of piano music, it is said to have got on Chopin's nerves quite a bit - the notorious association of flowing water, which probably mainly the young women around him repeatedly uttered. Higher daughters loved Chopin and his music, and it mainly reminded them of water. I have to admit that I am not much more original with my association with this mazurka, only that I have changed the physical state. Snow, I had snow in mind when I played this piece for the first time, the freezing cold, the clear air and the glittering magic of a snowy landscape. It's a completely fantastic idea because I can't remember the last time I saw something like this. As a child, of course, I built huge snowmen or made “angels” in the snow. That was in kindergarten or elementary school age, when all the children plopped backwards in the snow as if on command, rowing arms and legs and actually leaving prints that were reminiscent of angels with spreading wings. Our cat was completely euph