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how to listen to music if you don’t know your Beethoven from your Bach, XVIII – Rachmaninov
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“
Portrait of the composer Sergei Rachmaninov
“
Konstantin Somov
______
though you probably still wouldn’t be able
to tell a prelude from a hole in the wall,
nor, admittedly, can I, unless indicated,
if you’ve listened to the pieces I’ve
recently presented, you’ve noted, even
merely sensed, really, that the preludes
of one composer don’t sound at all like
those of the others, Bach doesn’t sound
like Chopin, who doesn’t sound at all
like Debussy, the first step in telling
your Beethoven from your Bach, as
promised in my title
you might not even be able to tell which
is which as you’re listening, but you can
tell they’re different, you do the same
thing telling your
Monet
from your
Renoir
Rachmaninov also wrote, like Chopin,
and Debussy, 24 preludes, and, like
Chopin, in every key, major and minor
but spread out
through three
publications,
Opus 3, no. 2
,
from 1892,
comprising of
only
one prelude, but a
scorcher,
The
Bells of Moscow
,
listen
a second set,
Opus 23
,
consists of
ten,
mostly iconic, pieces,
you’ve heard
them somewhere before
, therefore
iconic
the final set comes out in 1910,
Opus 32
,
with thirteen preludes,
for a total of 24
you’ll marvel,
even Marilyn Monroe
famously did
enjoy
R ! chard
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August 15, 2023
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