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Franz Liszt is really my favorite. Just the sheer amount of works that you can explore

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and the amount of different styles that all of those compositions encompass. You can also

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look at his transcriptions. I mean, Liszt transcribed stuff from Bach, Prelude and Fugue

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for organ to completely free fantasies on Bach works to things that are like multi-stylistic,

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like this Handel transcription, things based on popular tunes, like a ridiculous amount

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of variety, really experimental works. So with Franz Liszt, you're just never going to run

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out of repertoire ideas. At some point, you have to really think, how do I want to play

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this composition? Or, you know, what do I want to play? And why am I picking it? At

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least I think when you get to the point where you can play what you want and how you want

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to play, I think that's already a win. Early training is based on restriction, what not

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to do. And you also learn by imitation. That's a very good thing up to a certain point. When

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you're finally given a completely free pass to do whatever you want, what are you going

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to do? That's an interesting, when you get to that point, that's pretty interesting.

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What are you going to pick? How are you going to play it? And why?

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You know, with the accessibility in technology, and you'll be able to do if you are willing

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to do this, take this path, no? Yes, absolutely. You have to, you have to be completely behind

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it and then you can't back down. Once you go for it, you go for it. You know something?

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When I started investing my own money into this, I started playing better. Really, it's

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like a really bad thing to say. But it's like, no, when your own money is on line, you are

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absolutely going to prepare to your best ability. So you can create your pathway. It's so awesome.

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