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by **hornplayer** » Tue Mar 06, 2001 8:09 pm

...and hes spinning cause I just practiced his piece for horn and piano, and boy, did it sound like someone was killing something!

by **serge urtizberea** » Tue Mar 06, 2001 8:47 pm

Remember where practice'll get ya!

by **hornplayer** » Tue Mar 06, 2001 8:51 pm

Im thrilled...

by **~Leslie** » Wed Mar 07, 2001 12:41 am

Hornplayer, Tell us about your instructor........~

by **serge urtizberea** » Wed Mar 07, 2001 1:53 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by hornplayer: Im thrilled...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I don't get it.

by **Peter** » Wed Mar 07, 2001 1:35 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by hornplayer: ...and hes spinning cause I just practiced his piece for horn and piano, and boy, did it sound like someone was killing something!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Hornplayer, did you know that the horn virtuoso, Punto, for whom Beethoven wrote this sonata, was, at the time of its premiere, on the run all over Europe from angry creditors. His life was in considerable jeopardy. And you thought YOU had problems?

by **hornplayer** » Wed Mar 07, 2001 3:54 pm

Thank you Peter...geez, there is a lot of cool information floating around here...was he the same Punto as the composer?

by **Peter** » Wed Mar 07, 2001 7:24 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by hornplayer: Thank you Peter...geez, there is a lot of cool information floating around here...was he the same Punto as the composer?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Sorry, Hornplayer, but I`ve never heard of a composer called Punto, so I don`t know; but I`d think it unlikely that they are one & the same.I just listened to your sonata, & I`m interested to know which parts you find particularly difficult. To me, even the very opening horn phrase sounds tricky! Bear in mind that Punto was a virtuoso - it`s not meant to be easy to play!

by **hornplayer** » Wed Mar 07, 2001 9:09 pm

Peter, what will end up happening is I wont be able to play the last, oh, eight bars from the first movement (8 min). However, its the quality of the rest of the piece that counts. All of the high passages are difficult, and the slurs from low notes to high notes are nearly impossible. Punto is not the composers real name...its Johann W. Stich.

by **EJA_2** » Fri Mar 16, 2001 6:16 pm

Hey Hornplayer, Are you still out there? I just thought you'd like to know that Beethoven had trouble playing his own pieces. See my posts under the Nicole Marie section of the bulletin board under the title "Quiz III . . ." -- EJA

by **~Leslie** » Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:28 pm

Hornplayer, Where are you?~

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