Improving Pianists
Written in 1784 during Haydn’s second escapade in London, this monothematic Sonata was one of a number of works he dedicated to the resident German pianist Therese Jansen-Bartolozzi, who ‘must have been a first-rate player’, inspiring ‘wonderful and highly demanding compositions from Clementi [of whom she was a pupil], and Dussek’ (Komlós, 1995, p.77). The […]
Title: Partimento: A Beginner Method for Classical Improvisation Author: Connor Gaydon Release Date: February 2023 (eBook) Price: £14 (or £2.50 per stage) Purpose: Provide beginner musicians a practical book to learn classical improvisation using the Partimento method. For over a century, classical improvisation has been a lost skill, until now. During the 17th-19th centuries, improvisation […]
“If I have one regret about my traditional education, it’s that it wasn’t traditional enough. We have forgotten that in the eighteenth century – those hundred years that form the bedrock of classical music – improvisation was a foundation of music training. Oddly, our discipline has discarded a practice that helped bring it into being. […]
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