da_JAL
July 16, 2005, 7:20am
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Once upon a time in Vienna:
Dreyschock’s most glamorous prestidigitation even provoked Liszt:
Apparently Dreyschock’s teacher, Tomášek, had one day exclaimed about the extraordinary attainments of the modern-day virtuoso, and he prophesied that some day in the future, some virtuoso would be able to play the left-hand of Chopin’s Etude Op 10 No 12 (the so-called ‘Revolutionary’ Etude) in octaves instead of single notes. Inspired by this heady vision, Dreyschock went home and practised twelve hours a day for six weeks.
At the end of it all he was able to perform the ‘Revolutionary’ at speed in the prescribed octaves. It astonished Mendelssohn when he heard it at the Leipzig Gewandhaus concerts, and it obviously made Liszt sweat a little when Dreyschock began single-handedly to usurp his Viennese audience. At his next Viennese concert, Liszt purled through Chopin’s Etude in F minor, Op 25 No 2.
He called Dreyschock’s event ‘a got-up furore’, and described the left-hand wizard as ‘an homme-machine, the personification of lack of genius, with the exterior of a clown’. Whatever the musical raison d’être for left-hand pieces may be, Dreyschock’s tricks ensured him a place in the history books - and a large fee-paying public during his lifetime. The King of Denmark even gave him a box of cigars wrapped in 100-thaler bank notes after his left-hand Variations created a sensation in Copenhagen.
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quite legendary, i’ve heard sum shorter version of dis
maybe u haff seen dis be4, so what, i don’t give a shit
da obviouz queztion iz:
at precizely WUT speed did he play diz
if da sheeeyat about da chopz fucked up metronme iz tru, den da REV wud haff a met mark of around 7npz. n dat speed iz indeed pozzible wiz endurance octz
Guest
July 16, 2005, 8:26am
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i think i read it once in some hyperion sleeve note
da obviouz queztion iz:
at precizely WUT speed did he play diz
if da sheeeyat about da chopz fucked up metronme iz tru, den da REV wud haff a met mark of around 7npz. n dat speed iz indeed pozzible wiz endurance octz
If da chops metronome wuz fucked up den all da etudes wud sound liek shit n be awfully slow but i think he just screwed up da bpm on da first etude.
hahahaha, one wondaz, if diz shud be done
when da RH aint playin, shud it join da LH to do alt sheeyat to help wit endurance n keep up da speed?
diz iz pozzible
One thing mah bad self dun understand about this sheeyat iz dat playing da Rev left hand in octaves haz to be much moh difficult da to play da 25.2 in octaves. When it is moh difficult to play octaves in da left hand dan to play octaves in da right. And da pattern in da 25.2 iz easier dan da 10.12.
-da Meph
da time u realize da oppozite iz tru, iz da time u reach a nu level of peniztic enlightenment
from wut i haff heard da liszt sightread da 25/2 wit da octaves
