Greatest composer for the piano?!
Question: Greatest composer for the piano!?
Who in your opinion is the greatest composer for the piano/keyboard/pianoforte!? For me, it would have to be Chopin!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
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Whilst I must confess some sympathy for your choice of Chopin, I must jump into the Beethoven camp on this one!. It has been said that if Bach's Well Tempered Clavier is the old Testament of Music, then Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are the new!. Couple that with his five Piano Concerti and you have the core of the literature for piano!.
Having said that!.!.!. Chopin is not known as the Poet of the Piano for nothing!. His piano compositions are the high water mark for romantic piano music!.
If these two then epitomize the best of writing for the piano then surely others deserve mention if only for perspective!.!.!.
Mozart's piano concerti would make him legendary, even if he had composed nothing else and his piano sonatas are often overlooked - although someone rightly said that they are too simple for children and too difficult for artists!. In addition, his fantasias and free structured pieces for solo piano were literally centuries ahead of their time!. I often think that the D minor could easily have been written towards the end of the romantic period!.
There are so many remarkable composers for the piano that it is difficult to pick a greatest!.!.!. but tough to make a case against Beethoven!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Having said that!.!.!. Chopin is not known as the Poet of the Piano for nothing!. His piano compositions are the high water mark for romantic piano music!.
If these two then epitomize the best of writing for the piano then surely others deserve mention if only for perspective!.!.!.
Mozart's piano concerti would make him legendary, even if he had composed nothing else and his piano sonatas are often overlooked - although someone rightly said that they are too simple for children and too difficult for artists!. In addition, his fantasias and free structured pieces for solo piano were literally centuries ahead of their time!. I often think that the D minor could easily have been written towards the end of the romantic period!.
There are so many remarkable composers for the piano that it is difficult to pick a greatest!.!.!. but tough to make a case against Beethoven!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Technically Beethoven,what with his 32 solo sonatas which encompass every range and emotion culminating in the otherwordly magnificence of the two movement work of no!.32 Op 111 to which Thomas Mann in his utterly brilliant novel 'Doctor Faustus' argued that with it Beethoven ‘brought' the (classical) sonata as a form to an ‘end' - ‘it had fulfilled its destiny, reached its goal, beyond which there was no going'!.
However that aside I think I agree that Chopin would be my personal no!.1 choice if I had to absolutely choose just one,he's certainly the poet par none of the piano!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
However that aside I think I agree that Chopin would be my personal no!.1 choice if I had to absolutely choose just one,he's certainly the poet par none of the piano!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Beethoven, he defined the possibilities for the piano and everyone else just filled in the details!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Well, I'm going to jump on the Beethoven bandwagon!.!.!.although as stated before, there are MANY great works written for piano by many great composers!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I place Bartok very slightly above Debussy!. International music critics reverse this order!.
There can never be a 'correct' answer, of course!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
There can never be a 'correct' answer, of course!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Rachmaninoff, in my opinion!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Sergei Rachmaninov would have to be my first choice, with Chopin a close second!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Nobody has said Ravel yet!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Bach!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Franz Liszt!.Www@Enter-QA@Com