SonateHarder

Inspiring love for the piano since 2011.

[julialukedesign]

Andy Warhol, early drawing

[quietlotus]

“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”

— Alan Watts

[florenloren]

Next on my what I've been listening to is On an overgrown Path by Janáček, 'the Madonna of Frydek' is absolutely wonderful and 'Good Night' is really lovely too,

But as always what I've really been listening to is Debussy and Grieg Lyric pieces, because they make me happy.

[kryzim]

Krystian Zimerman having a bit of fun in Mozart Sonata no. 10 in C Major, K 330

Mozart would’ve liked that.

[florenloren]

I don't know how I didn't know this but apparently Erik Satie never had anyone in his apartment for 27 years, like nobody at all, and when he died it was entered, 2 grand pianos were found on top of one another the top one for storage, and like a huge collection of over 100 umbrellas. I find this stuff weird when it's shown to other people, like "Hey look I stacked a piano on a piano!", but the fact that he never told a soul of this makes it so funny. He truly believed the double piano tower (or tower pianissimo if you will) was a good interior design choice. What a great man.

[florenloren]

My favourite thing ever is listening to a performance of a piano piece and as we get to the climax hearing the performer breathing really heavily, either they're stressed or a little too into the music. ..I get it though.

[florenloren]

My current list of pieces I'm learning is La fille aux cheveux de lin January (Tchaik) La cathédrale engloutie Oiseaux tristes My mum has complained to me that they're all too "intense" ):< even the quieter ones like la fille have quite strong bits, does anyone have any suggestions for like more consistently relaxed (but still musically interesting) pieces? I was thinking an arabesque from Debussy, I aspire to perform it one day as well as @leonardbirdstein did (GENUINELY IT WAS AMAZING) but idk! Any suggestions from the world?

[sonateharder]

maybe one of the Schubert Impromptus would work

[sonateharder]

Erik Satie’s Apartment by Gary Westford | Stefani Art Gallery

Erik Satie’s Apartment by Gary Westford

@florenloren

[darling-chris]

Christine McVie

[florenloren]

Y'know how Debussy used to title his pieces at the end, leaving just a roman numeral at the beginning? Could this be considered the original vagueposting? Here's a pentatonic scale and oo look uh- was that an 11th chord? If you guys knew what this song was about you'd go crazy..

[soundgrammar]

Dutch pianist, harpsichordist, and composer Guus Janssen (born May 13, 1951)

[thevisualvamp]

Play me a tango

[periodinteriors]

Johann Nepomuk Hoechle (Austrian, 1790-1835), Beethoven's Room at the Time of his Death [Beethoven's study in the Schwarzspanierhaus, his final residence, painted three days after the composer's death], 1827, ink and wash.

[nonesuchrecords]

Happy birthday to pianist Jeremy Denk!

[bhardwajmusicacademy]

For thousands of years, humans have been listening to the wind through trees, to waves, to heartbeats, and to thunder. Music began as an act of attention—an attempt to translate the living rhythm of the world; a joyful joining into nature’s rhythms and teachings.

Nature has always been the greatest teacher.

You can study sheet music and notes; you can master scales; you can analyze harmony until your brain glows like a laboratory experiment.

But the essence of music remains untouchable.

You cannot hold it.

You cannot smell it.

You cannot see it.

You can only feel it.

This invisible force somehow travels through centuries… shaping cultures, defining eras, and carrying emotion across time.

Because music, at its deepest level, is not merely a human invention. It is a direct conversation with the pulse of the universe.

Humans often believe we invent culture, but much of culture is, in many ways, an imitation of nature. Rhythm mirrors the heartbeat; scales echo the physics of vibrating strings and air columns. Even harmony follows mathematical relationships already embedded within the structure of sound itself. The Greeks recognized this and called it the “music of the spheres” — the idea that the universe itself is ordered like a vast harmonic system.

In that sense, great musicians are less like engineers and more like translators of the cosmos. Quincy Jones understood that instinctively.

Speaker: Quincy Jones

Join us at @bhardwajmusicacademy for thoughtful reflections, musical insight, and deeper explorations into the art, science, culture, and timeless language of music.

#music #nature #wisdom #art #human

[jareckiworld]

Frank Diaz Escalet (1930-2012) — Collision. Monk & Dolphy, What If! [acrylic on board, 1996]

[gaellesadaune]

Extrait de mon récital autour de la musique russe qui s'est déroulé à Montravers !