Franz Liszt is really my favorite. Just the sheer amount of works that you can explore
and the amount of different styles that all of those compositions encompass. You can also
look at his transcriptions. I mean, Liszt transcribed stuff from Bach, Prelude and Fugue
for organ to completely free fantasies on Bach works to things that are like multi-stylistic,
like this Handel transcription, things based on popular tunes, like a ridiculous amount
of variety, really experimental works. So with Franz Liszt, you're just never going to run
out of repertoire ideas. At some point, you have to really think, how do I want to play
this composition? Or, you know, what do I want to play? And why am I picking it? At
least I think when you get to the point where you can play what you want and how you want
to play, I think that's already a win. Early training is based on restriction, what not
to do. And you also learn by imitation. That's a very good thing up to a certain point. When
you're finally given a completely free pass to do whatever you want, what are you going
to do? That's an interesting, when you get to that point, that's pretty interesting.
What are you going to pick? How are you going to play it? And why?
You know, with the accessibility in technology, and you'll be able to do if you are willing
to do this, take this path, no? Yes, absolutely. You have to, you have to be completely behind
it and then you can't back down. Once you go for it, you go for it. You know something?
When I started investing my own money into this, I started playing better. Really, it's
like a really bad thing to say. But it's like, no, when your own money is on line, you are
absolutely going to prepare to your best ability. So you can create your pathway. It's so awesome.
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