Have you ever heard of Pianomania? Pianomania is a 2010 German-Australian Documentary/Musical. A man named Stefan, a piano tuner from the piano company Steinway & Sons, and his famous clients search for the perfect pitch. In the film, Bach’s The Art of Fugue is set up to be recorded. The movie begins one year from the recording. This entertaining quiz will play a key role in helping you understand Pianomania.
Tangerine
Watermelon
Orange
Durian
...contrasting articulation.
... contrasting dynamics.
... contrasting timbres.
... such a large range of pitches.
Janissary pedal
Una corda pedal
Crescendo pedal
Accelerando pedal
W.A. Mozart
Frédéric Chopin
Claude Debussy
Sergei Prokofiev
Yamaha
Kawai
Steinway
Bösendorfer
Borosilicate glass
Crystal
Gold
Titanium
True
False
Martha Argerich
Maria João Pires
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Mitsuko Uchida
Solo piano
One piano, four hands
String orchestra
Symphony orchestra
The shape of the instrument.
The number of keyboards.
The way the sound is produced.
The layout of the keys on the keyboard.
True
False
Mozart
Chopin
Saint-Saëns
Britten
Mozart
Beethoven
Poulenc
Lennox Berkeley
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Muzio Clementi
Sigismond Thalberg
Franz Schubert
Brahms
Liszt
Rachmaninov
Tchaikovsky
It was commissioned by a pianist who lost his right arm in the First World War.
Ravel wanted to write three piano concertos - one for both hands, one for the right hand, and one for the left hand; but he never completed the concerto for the right hand.
Ravel was inspired by Czerny's 24 studies for the left hand titled 'Ecole de la main gauche'.
Ravel wrote it for his pianist friend who was born without a right hand.
Leopold Godowsky
Franz Liszt
Marc-André Hamelin
Ferruccio Busoni
Daniel Barenboim
Vladimir Horowitz
Artur Rubinstein
Emil Gilels
J.S. Bach
Beethoven
Schumann
Prokofiev
Dinu Lipatti
Alfred Cortot
Evgeny Kissin
Claudio Arrau
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