![]() ![]() "Learning to unify the performance is part of the aesthetics of western music. In support of this view, he tells an anecdote about the cellist Pierre Fournier, to whom he had pointed out the repetition of some detail in Beethoven's opus 69 only to learn, to his surprise, that Fournier had never noticed it. "I must have written it mainly as a reaction, because everyone seems to think I play intellectually," he explains.Īnalytical understanding, Rosen believes, is not essential to a good performance. For a grand old man, 77 this year, whose performance style has been defined in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "severe" and "intellectual", the tennis metaphor has a hint of rueful self-irony about it. Instead, he proposes tennis clothes as a more serviceable costume, suggesting that pianism is more a branch of athletics than aesthetics. I n Piano Notes, his recent book on the experience of being a pianist, Charles Rosen questions the propriety of the performer's customary uniform of white tie and tails. ![]()
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