One or a pianist is a musician who plays of the Piano.

A pianist can play of the parts as a soloist, play with a Orchestre or within a whole of Chamber music (generally of the duet to the quintet) or accompany one or more Chanteur S or Instrumentiste S.

The traditional formation of one or a pianist starts as of his more young age, some starting even as of three years. Like any other instrumentalist, this formation includes the musical theory, the history of the music, the musical analysis, and a minimum of harmony. According to the organization of the course of the academies, variable according to the countries, the pianists can specialize while following moreover other courses, as the practical harmony or the accompaniment.

Many a Compositeur S traditional famous was themselves of good pianists. For example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Ferruccio Busoni Sergei Rachmaninov, Georges Enesco and Bela Bartok were all of the pianists virtuosos.

Certain pianists grant their preference to certain type-setters and play mainly of the work S of those (examples: Maurizio Pollini/Chopin, Georges Cziffra/Liszt) and/or pass their life to improve to them Interprétation of these parts.

Many forms of Western music can call upon the piano. The pianists thus have an enormous repertory in Classical music, without speaking about the Jazz, the Boogie-woogie, the Blues, the Ragtime, etc For a few decades, certain popular and/or traditional musics have also used the piano, like certain tendencies of the Arab music, of the Irish music,…

Traditional pianists

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