Re:Sviatoslav Richter: A Pianist Who Made the Earth Move (2015)
by prvc on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:01AM
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His sense of absolute pitch shifted in later age, leaving him constantly unsure as to the correctness of the notes he was playing. The music was intended to be a check against any confusion arising from this. At least this is what he claims. Would be interesting to know if this was necessarily entirely psychological or not.
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Re:Sviatoslav Richter: A Pianist Who Made the Earth Move (2015)
by SamReidHughes on Sunday March 17, 2019 @08:00PM
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IIRC he forgot a note one performance and put the sheet music in front of him ever since.
It is easy to imagine forgetting which high or low disconnected note you're supposed to start a passage from on a piece you haven't played recently -- or you have the sense of the feeling of a note but might be off by a fourth.