Accept it: you and I are technical inferior to Beethoven and early 19th century pianists in general. Period. Seems hard to believe seen the evolution on all aspects of life since the early 1800's. But yet, it is the only practical implication possible if we would bring the claims of our musicologists to practice (which they themselves will never do). 15 notes a second, according to their interpretation must have been the absolute 'normal' for the average (beginning) piano student. That leads to another absolutely ridiculous claim that is based on nothing but backwards reasoning, namely that musical tempi during the 19th century became slower and became slower drastically. We are supposed to believe that Beethoven in 1805 played incomparably faster than Rubinstein end of the 19th century, and way faster than any virtuoso today, or that beginners in the time before the Industrial Movement begun easily outperformed the Rachmaninoffs of early 20th century or the Pollini’s, Lisitsa’s or Yuja Wangs of today. In this video we put things a little bit in a more solid context and we'll feature one of the forgotten 19th century musical giants, according to Franz Liszt one of the pillars of piano playing, Ignaz Moscheles.
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