{"id":12421,"date":"2024-01-10T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12421"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T23:10:14","slug":"imogen-cooper-on-a-lesson-with-alfred-brendel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12421","title":{"rendered":"Imogen Cooper on a lesson with Alfred Brendel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>He was a wonderful teacher. He is extremely articulate and very demanding. He made no concessions to my age. In my first lesson, I was playing a Schubert piano sonata, and the first chord took 20 minutes. I played it again and again, and Brendel wandered around the room saying: &#8220;No, balance of sound wrong \u2026 Too much bass \u2026 Not quite the right colour.&#8221; I started hearing from inside his head. Eventually, I played the chord and he turned around and said, &#8220;Thank you,&#8221; and I knew it was right. But then, so help me God, I had to play the next chord.<\/p>\n<cite>Imogen Cooper, &#8220;A Master Bows Out&#8221;, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, 15 December 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2008\/dec\/15\/alfred-brendel-pianist-classical-music1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2008\/dec\/15\/alfred-brendel-pianist-classical-music1<\/a>, (Accessed 10 July 2024).  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was a wonderful teacher. He is extremely articulate and very demanding. He made no concessions to my age. In my first lesson, I was playing a Schubert piano sonata, and the first chord took 20 minutes. I played it again and again, and Brendel wandered around the room saying: &#8220;No, balance of sound wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1628,1627],"class_list":["post-12421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-alfred-brendel","tag-imogen-cooper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12423,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421\/revisions\/12423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}