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Writer's pictureCochuchi

They stole my technique

The emphasis on stealing ideas and putting themselves in their place is international, not just Spanish.


It is true that art has that, copying and copying the masters. But if these masters do a job in life and with relatively few years of distance, to what extent does this have no rights?


This older lady -rich enough to have two grand pianos in her house-, as they say in some comments, is superior to most great pianists, but for a reason that I see, because it is too similar to my technique (which you can hear, you don't need to see it to realize it) demonstrated in the recording of the 24 Studies that I made in Galaxy Studios in Belgium 4 years ago, and from there my influence has already marked a before and after.







But, hey, Youtube covers up my stuff (it even puts an endless ad before you start), and gives other people hundreds of thousands of views and comments. Why is this? Is it just because they are Jewish?


This lady plays well, she has worked hard, and my version must have had such an impact on her that she must have thought that there was a niche for her to exploit with works as overused as Chopin's Etudes, in this case the 12 of op. 25.


How else could an elderly lady, who nobody knows, have comments that place her above the great pianists of history? Above the very great pianists who were undisputed milestones during glorious times of the piano (not today, when the piano is little more or less than a pair of panties)... Ponder this reflection.


Well, the only explanation I can think of is that she plagiarized me. In her own way, of course, because plagiarizing my interpretation/version/rendition is more or less impossible. The lady has to breathe constantly between phrases, and slow down her pace, volume and spirit, in order to be able to play these early works by Chopin in which the Polish genius was a virtuoso with a prodigious technique.


They tell her that the sound is very good. For less advanced ears everything sounds good, obviously. Her Steinway piano seems old, yes, restored, and quite open in the high notes (some often shoot up too much and sound shrill), which makes it easier for someone with little strength to perform. Nothing to do with my recording at Galaxy Studios, which is a high fidelity recording, also unsurpassed.


The links in which she continues to play a few notes are irrelevant to me. Where did Chopin write that? Did he perhaps give instructions to someone to interpret it that way?


It seems to imply that she is suggesting a certain improvisation or that she is interpreting Chopin due to some kind of creative inspiration, when neither the improvisation deserves any interest and in my opinion she spoils Chopin's level with another of "no level", or the creative inspiration is simply non-existent since what she is playing are the notes that the composer wrote. It is not an original idea either because as far as I have seen, the Catalan pianist Josep Colom did it a few years ago less than her (see Youtube) with a higher creative level in those links, although his technique seemed rather far-fetched or complicated to me, however not far from a certain effectiveness.

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