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| Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B flat minor - NOT STD MIDI |
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by - David Buechner , piano , Tom Zink , orch , Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky History records that, when the non-virtuoso pianist Peter Tchaikovsky decided to begin work on his first piano concerto, he turned to Nikolay Rubinstein for advice. Rubinstein listened to the first movement in complete silence, Tchaikovsky continued through the rest of the concerto and then asked Rubinstein for his opinion. Said Tchaikovsky, "a torrent of abuse poured from Rubenstien's lips. The concerto was 'worthless, unplayable, clumsy, badly written, vulgar, plagiaristic, and needed to be thrown away and completely reworked.' Anyone would have thought I was a madman, a stupid, senseless hack who had come to lay his rubbish before a great musician." Tchaikovsky responded by telling Rubinstein that the work would not be altered, that it would be published exactly as is. Fortunately for the music world, Tchaikovsky did publish his concerto in 1874, and his Piano Concerto No. 1 has become one of the most powerful, striking piano works of classical literature.
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Stock#: 10148 Pub.: Yamaha PianoSoft Plus Code: HL00501995 UPC: 73999975512 Format: disklav XG THIS IS A MIDI SEQUENCE, NOT AUDIO! Subject: Classical Year: ©1997 List: 34.95 Sale: $31.46
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