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8 Hands, 1 Piano! Watch more!

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In celebration of Frédéric Chopin’s birthday, various decorative title pages of Chopin’s music from our stacks.

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Now and again an echo of Chopin’s music rings in my ears, and this much you have achieved, that at such moments I always think of you and lose myself in meditating about possibilities.

Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Happy Pi Day!

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'Explication of ornaments' given by J. S. Bach in the Clavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. 

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Schubert - Serenade arr. Liszt

Performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Igor Stravinsky (17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971)

"Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it."

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Words to live by…

“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost no such thing as ready. There’s only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I’m about to go bungee jumping or something - I’m not. I’m not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.” - Hugh Laurie. xo Maya

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A directory of themes from all the preludes and fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier, book I.

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"Piano playing is an ideal, all-weather, lifetime hobby or a profitable profession."

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(via Watercolor Piano Art Print by lalunetropbleme | Society6)

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(via Piano Player Art Print by Donghi Nguyen | Society6)

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(via My piano Art Print by Sebastian Govino | Society6)

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(via Piano Death Art Print by Liam Brazier | Society6)

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“If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.”

Robert Schumann

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“Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.”

Francesca Lia Block, Love Magick