Obsession With The Piano Research Paper

Gradually, I lost interest in playing piano and the time that I spent on practicing was less and less, and when I was twelve years old, I gave up. I do have musical talent, good family environment, and opportunity. Nevertheless, my attitude and laziness are the causes of my failure.

It wasn’t until that summer I walked across a bright yellow home. Through the windows, I could see an Asian woman was playing a beautiful song on her black grand piano. The sound of her music was like a stream of water running quietly through the green forest. From that moment, I became inspired to learn how to play the piano. I decided to take piano lessons with her and made it a goal to learn how to play the piano. My piano teacher, Ms. Li, was my role model because she showed me that there are unique and fascinating things people can learn to do in this world. As days turned to months and months turned into years, I continued to strive to become my inspiration. Many times, I felt like the Indians on the reservation and just wanted to give up because I felt it was too hard to make it to the top. Eight years later, I’ve completed my piano training. Today, people would always compliment my style of playing when I would play the piano. Sometimes I would come across a very young boy or girl who wanted to learn how to play the piano after they heard me play. I told them, “If you put your mind to it, you can do anything.” My piano teacher has been and will always be my inspiration and role model. Today, I have become a role model and inspiration for many people who want to learn how to play the piano. Role models and heroes are important in shaping people’s personalities and qualities because they provide people with goals to strive for.

Beethoven contributed one of the most significant musical developments through his fifth and ninth symphonies. He used a musical motive as the basic of his entire piece. (Beethoven described the motive as “Fate knocks at the door”.) It was the first time in history that anyone had done such a thing for a multi-movement piece. Beethoven’s contribution has become a norm in the music world, even to this day.

My dream was always to be a concert pianist, however, my dream shattered, after a tragic work related accident, disabled my hand. A machine malfunctioned on my hand, which compressed, cut, and burned me with fire, resulting in fourth-degree burns. Furthermore, after seven surgeries, to save my hand, I was faced, with the terrible news, of amputation of three of my fingers. This was an extremely traumatic and painful experience for me. Fortunately, by

Playing for kings and royalty, Beethoven’s talent was immediately recognized from a young age by his father and other fellow musicians. By his early 20’s, he had composed 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, and a full opera - clearly a stupendous feat by itself, but tragically, a couple years later, he had begun strenuously overworking himself to the point of becoming deaf through idiosyncratic acts like dumping cold water on his head in order to stay awake. However, this did not stop him; "Live alone in your art! Restricted though you be by your defective sense, this is still the only existence for you” (Beethoven). For the rest of his life, Beethoven sacrificed his hearing for his undeniable - and even obsessive - passion for music - ultimately leading to the creation of some of classical music’s greatest compositions of all time. Ergo, with enough dedication and that 1% of talent, anyone - from an everyday student to the legends of the past - can truly be a “genius”.

He did not have much interest in mingling with fellow classmates, everyday he would study music; he was fascinated by music. Even though his father was a cruel teacher, young Beethoven never gave up because he knew that he had passion for it. At the age of 7, Beethoven plays at his first recital. The same age as Mozart when he first performed publicly.

I sat and listened to the beautiful yet invigorating song being played on the piano. I reminisced about the future, when I would be able to play such a complex piece of music. Six years later I sat awaiting my turn to perform this piece of music I had so long dreamed about. I felt butterflies dancing in my stomach, but at the same time I felt a sense of peace and contentment. I played this song flawlessly and from that moment on, I knew that I wanted to use my knowledge and talent of playing the piano to change the world for the better. I desired to impact young, aspiring piano students just as the song that impacted my life so long ago. I long to do so by studying music in college and continue to teach piano.

The Piano is a film about passion, the most basic and primal element of human nature. Passion ultimately cannot be denied. This is something that the characters in this movie learn in different and sometimes unpleasant ways.

During the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, Beethoven was innovating the world of music through various compositions. In particular, Beethoven's works for piano revolutionized and innovated the piano and its performance practices. His compositional works have always been considered to be some of the best works published, but not everyone realizes just how pivotal his work was in this point in music history.

My life has always been tied to the piano in some shape or form. I can remember the first notes I ever produced. They came from a large Cable upright piano that had sat unused and out of tune for decades. From my early childhood and on my relationship with the piano consisted of nothing more than fleeting encounters. Some days I would sit down and simply play notes I thought sounded nice, but mostly the piano acted as a decoration in my home. It wasn 't until moving to Oklahoma to be with my mother 's family that anything serious developed concerning the piano. I had always been far away from my family, so when I met up with my grandmother we took the time to catch up. She mentioned that my mother used to play the piano quite well. Up until that point I had never given the piano much thought, but I began to think about my mother and all the old piano books she had accumulated from her adolescence. That set in motion my desire to learn how to play and an eventual reappraisal of the way I looked at music and the world around me.

He is unable to play because he will give himself away so we instead watch his fingers move across the air above the piano’s keys as whilst the sound plays in his head and too the viewer. Throughout the film we also see Szpilman pretending to play the piano as he taps his finger across his legs. It is moments such as these that help to maintain Szpilman’s willingness to survive by keeping silent, but also how piano gives fills him with the hope that is instrumental in his survival. In other scenes such as when a German officer asks Szpilman to play piano for him, and allows him to live because of his immense talent we begin to realise that Szpilman’s hope – music, does not only help him to survive mentally, but also physically as he can share the gift that he has to others. It is also important to note that Polanski only music by the Polish composer, Chopin is used throughout ‘The Pianist’. His sad and evocative music brings upon a sad mood, yet one with a hint of hope and with this, the director can more vividly express his ideas a way that dialogue or action cannot.

In the December of 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven, an influential musician, was born in Bonn Germany. When he was just four years old, he began studying music. At a young age, Beethoven was unmethodical and melancholy although he was intellectually curious about music. When he was employed as an organist in Vienna, Beethoven wasn’t recognized for his great talent until he became a piano virtuoso. While he was still a teenager, Beethoven played for Mozart who stated that he would have a bright future in Vienna. Unfortunately at age seventeen, his mother who he cherished passed away.

At a very early age, Johann van Beethoven taught Beethoven to play the clavier, a stringed keyboard instrument. Johann was a harsh instructor, and would beat young Beethoven when he hesitated or made a mistake playing. Almost every day, Johann would even beat his son, lock him in the cellar, or deprive him of his much needed sleep so he could get even more practice. Johann arranged for his son’s first public recital “little son of 6 years” (even though

The piano is a beautiful instrument, from the contrast of the black and white keys to the deep sounds off the bass clef and high sounds of the treble clef. The complexity of the instrument attracts any musician, or anyone who values music or talent. It is impossible to completely master the piano. No person, even mozart or Franz Liszt has mastered the piano. Everybody can always get better, no matter how good you already are. While some may say you can completely master any task my assertion is that you can always work harder and become better. In order to grow as a person one must try to do something beyond what they have already mastered, in other words to become a better person one must continue to learn. This is good for many reasons,

As soon as her fingers brushed the keys, I recognized the piece as the first movement of Beethoven’s Pathetique. Ally was a tempest: like gusts of wind, her hands flew violently across the grand as waves of thunder rolled from its open lid. Perhaps it was a few stray strikes of lightning that dropped my jaw when she played. I closed my eyes and felt my body fill with the warmth of her music. Suddenly, the rolling waves of thunder hit a wall, the warmth drained from my body, and my eyes flashed open. Ally was frozen in place. With hesitance she rose from her seat, apologized to her audience, and started the piece again with the use of her sheet music. Her second rendition of Pathetique was played with eloquence and grace. Its final chord reverberated through my body for the few minutes of silence after the performance and clung onto me for weeks to follow. Her error only made me respect her more as I then understood that my idol was, like me,