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Originally Posted by josht23musiclover
No I can't. I played the piano as a teenager and did play a couple of Chopin's works, but I had to quit playing for various reasons right when I was becoming good enough to consistently play works by the greats. However, that experience opened my eyes to the solo piano repertory and for a few years after I was obsessed piano music, especially Liszt, but also guys like Chopin, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff. I know quite a bit of their piano music pretty well but I don't return to them that often these days as I'm branching out/exploring.
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As a listener, it takes a long time to get to know a classical composition. When I was a teenager the classical records I bought were predictable: Beethoven symphonies and string quartets and Mozart operas and symphonies. I still generally like the ones I know best the most. Probably not because they’re objectively the best but just because that’s what caught my eye in a record store decades ago.
People who keep dozens of composers and hundreds of compositions in their heads and can identify them after only hearing brief passages have my respect.
On the other hand, I remember when I was in my twenties it blew my mind how people could identify jazz standards so quickly. Now I can do that pretty damn well for a non-musician.