Scholars Found Memorization in Piano Performance Not Necessary

Today, a new discovery by renowned Lisztian scholar Alan Walker sent shockwaves within the classical music world. “Liszt never intended for people to play from memory,” Walker tells Piano League. In a newly discovered letter that Liszt evidently wrote to Marie d’Agoult—a close confidant of his—in the spring of 1834, he said “It worries me […]

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