Horowitz...?!
Question: I admire him. I don't tell you the reason I'm asking this. You just tell me yes or no please.
Horowitz made a lot of mistakes during his performances right? I mean wrong notes. Not dynamics or anything.
Answers: I admire him. I don't tell you the reason I'm asking this. You just tell me yes or no please.
Horowitz made a lot of mistakes during his performances right? I mean wrong notes. Not dynamics or anything.
I think the notion that Horowitz made a lot of mistakes during performances is the lingering impression he made at his final "comeback." I don't think that before that occasion he was any more prone to errors than anyone else.
By all accounts the maestro was way past his best by that time and having not performed in public for some time was probably suffering from nerves.
I should think not. I don't recall ever hearing or seeing him flub. Lots of passionate romantic music and distinguished honors for his performances.
Can't point you out a mistake in recordings and never saw him live. But I've heard the same stories as you. Didn't interfere with the flow, they say.
Saying that he 'made a lot of mistakes' is untrue. Totally excluding it is even more untrue. A useful dissertation on correction of his mistakes in discography is quoted below.
Basically, H. belongs to a tradition of piano interpretation which didn't put mechanic precision in first place. I happened to witness a performance of Beethoven's Farewell Sonata by Nikita Magaloff with so many dirty notes. Rendering the sense of a composition, passing over to the public the intrinsic emotion was the main worry of a pianist. In the case of V.H. there was much more to it. His combination of extreme finger strength and agility puts him in a very restricted list of portents, where I personally admit only Gould and Benedetti-Michelangeli. The cultural aura of the first half of last century in Europe (Rachmaninoff, Toscanini-H.'s father-in-law were the preminent personalities) was so intense that both a generous uncaring talent like H. and a perfectionist like Toscanini could live and dwell. And become relatives.
http://www.andante.com/article/article.c...
it's almost impossible to play all the notes right during a live performance......he makes mistakes, everyone does.......but his passion n' well- trained technique saved him!! love him!!
Was it Rubenstein .... when someone remarked that he had played some wrong notes quipped, "Yes, but did you notice how many right notes I played?"
As for Horowitz: he's my baby, don't you breathe a word against him, ya hear??
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