Heidelberg Piano

Dear friends of piano music, "A swallow doesn't make a summer". Actually, I wanted to write something completely different - how thoughts are as free as a swallow that soars into the air and looks at the world from a distance. How beautiful, I thought, the world looks from above, like in those movies "Germany from Above", in which you can see the large lines, the colored fields, the lush green of the forests, the blue of the seas. From a swallow's perspective, you are spared all the ugly little details, the dying forests, the poisoning of nature, even a motorway junction looks beautiful from a distance due to its precise geometric structures - you don't feel how the earth suffers from this sealing, the stench Cars, the aggressiveness of internal combustion engines and unfortunately also some of the contemporaries who drive these cars. The world is beautiful from the swallow's perspective, although this is already a romantic transfiguration on my pa...

  Dear friends of piano music, "From behind through the chest into the eye", this was one of the favorite sayings of my first piano teacher, a very clever but unfortunately very unhappy woman, and - in spite of "de mortuis nihil nisi bene", on the whole this expression unfortunately also describes their teaching methods. This principle has evidently become so much in my flesh and blood that I start my Sunday text on an elegy by Niels Gade with whom? Of course, with Modest Mussorgsky. I'm always terrified when I see pictures of him - a human wreck destroyed by self-doubt and alcohol. What wonderful ideas he had, but often, when I try to play his piano pieces prima vista, I have the impression that he must have clearly been convinced that he has three hands. Mozart is said to have pulled his nose in such situations, but unfortunately this is not a viable option for people who wear glasses like me. Mussorsky suffered all his life from not being a studied academic...