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Lezioni di piano Vivarelli

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Another suggestion I give to my students is to face a difficult passage evaluating it from the musical point of view, instead of technically: very often the greatest composers reveal with phrasing and sound signs not only the desired interpretation but also the technical way to solve it.

If we look at many of Chopin works, for example (but this is true for many other classical and romantic musicians), we’ll see that slurs, staccato, accents show exactly the kind of gestures and phrasing he wants.

By following his fingerings, although sometimes they don’t seem the most comfortable to us, we will soon get the right touch. Actually, Chopin devoted a large part of his life to teaching and his Studies are still our technical Bible [...]