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06/10/2007

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This is a dangerous subject. I don't intend to discus generaly about musical training and teaching but I'll focus on the particular case of contemporary music, because it takes less place in the education than it deserves, when it's not completely "forgotten".

In conservatoires and universities, If you must study Beethoven's sonatas, Bach's fugues, romantic pieces, you're not forced to play Berio, Stockhausen, Manoury and so on... When exams are coming and a contemporary piece is in the program, students are stressed because they are not used to this music, or simply think that they can do what they want: nobody knows.

However, for us pianists, studying contemporary music is fundamental. It enables to get with anonther view onto piano, and especially to acquire all the possibilities of piano, of which precious little people are aware.

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