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Tag: Opus 1 / no 1 – César Franck
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the best way to sharpen your aesthetic pencil
is always to put one thing up against another,
then decide which you like best, the outcome
is never right or wrong, it is quite simply a
function of your aesthetic sensibility, the
more you exercise that taste muscle, holding
one element up against another, to compare,
the more you develop an informed, if not ever
conclusive, opinion, which develops eventually
into, if not authority, at least wisdom
what do you want to be when you grow up,
I asked myself in my very early teens, I
want to be wise like my grandmother, I
answered, have I reached my goal, you
tell me, though it is still, and ever will be,
my quest
Beethoven’s “Archduke“, also a trio, his
which do you like best, there is no correct
answer, but your choice will tell you a lot
about yourself
enjoy
R ! chard
“Trio“ (c.1936)
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November, 2023, but I still abide by the
belief that a sonata a day keeps the
doctor away, so I’ve continued, more
or less, my medicine
but a sonata exceeds its definition, a
piece of music, consisting of more
than one segment, called movement,
for one or two instruments, the second,
should it be included, being harmony
for an instrument that can play only
one note at a time, which is to say,
everything except the piano
but a piece of music written for three,
instead of just one or two, instruments
is also called a trio
a work consisting of more than one
movement, but performed by three,
instead of just one or two, usually
different, instruments, is as well
called a trio, just to confuse you
here’s one, for violin, cello, and piano,
by César Franck, a Romantic composer,
I didn’t expect much, it being, manifestly,
his first composition, Opus 1, No. 1, but it
was part of the program I got tickets for
coming up at our recital society here in
February, I had to investigate
to my surprise, it was, is, magical
R ! chard
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