Mozart: 12 Variations "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman" KV 265 (Clara Haskil)

[rgrant023]

I was just thinking how cool it would be to redo twinkle twinkle.. But no, apparently some douche all ready did 200 + years ago. Bah!!

[fordorish]

You don't actually play the variation at this speed. Ruins it really.

[Penrbrown]

I'm not Asian. I can play most of this. it's a beautiful piece.

[yooandabooya]

i can barely play the theme -_-

[nardaf]

Clara Haskil remains to this day one of the best Mozart interpreters. It's a shame that she did have such a hard life, and (I think) never really owned her own piano!

[cuteythunder]

i can play the first two versions:P

[ScotsmanRex]

All i can say is great job playing this. I played trumpet for 23 years and a little piano as well but not as advanced as this music.

[MsLazycatt]

# 8 really reminds me of bach for some reason.

[ExaggeratedCool]

Holy shit, wow.

[vince10220]

yes why ignoring

[Jessica616ify]

I'm going to learn this!! It's so beautiful..

[senseofvertigo]

I never knew Twinkle Twinkle Little Star could be this EXCITING! :D

[ScotsmanRex]

@senseofvertigo this was also used for the popular nursery rhyme baa baa black sheep

[MEIYOSI]

I need these sheets , may I have these sheets please?

[xXxJustForFunxXx95]

@MEIYOSI type in Ah, vous dirai-je, maman sheet music and it should be there

[Blackrose09x]

There should be a "love" button

[TheMagnificoo]

why there are 6 dislikes?

[JasonWong3838]

@TheMagnificoo Click the wrong button

[blinxwang]

Difficulty level: Asian.

[ruth880723]

i will play it for my recital on january 2012~~

[TheUNIONSKATEvideos]

6 dislikes? what can you dislike about this? theres nothing offensive or any thing? i don't get it.....

[nosrep09]

@TheUNIONSKATEvideos they can't play the piano ;)

[xeNduRaNcex]

one day... one day..

[utrinisan]

Really nice. Thank you.

[WhatsGoingOnGuys]

thumbs up for music students listening to this learning theme & variations!

[rawrimadinonpianox]

As it goes on you lose the main theme of the song. Its like its varied itself into something different.

[dudearanamie]

challenge completed.

[anokomfan]

I'm trying to learn to play this but I don't know how to do the freakin trill thing :P

[jen1989z]

@anokomfan trills have their own techique. remembe to play them soflty and with grace. it s not easy i know. i m still working on them too :P

[anokomfan]

@jen1989z Thanks :D

[ijdoti]

clara has skill indeed...

[godwhyisthistaken]

those last two variations are my favorite

[Vesivian]

OMG THIS PIECE IS ATCL, DIPLOMA LEVEL O.O

[anohbey]

wonderful! just wonderful!

[12icey34]

@anohbey wonderful ? its a song about a girl telling her mother she was seduced.

[anohbey]

@12icey34 i don't care about the story the song tells. fairy tales, other children's stories, and what not have various levels of political incorrectness and sordid stories to tell. we cannot judge their content using present day standards. they were written in a different context and time. besides, i was commenting on the beauty of the piano paying. the comment was also directed towards the pianist and mozart's genius!

[MsPandaRosa]

@12icey34

that's a new variation, where'd you hear that? when I saw it in a book of French nursery rhymes it was about a little boy crying over the math problems his dad makes him do, and he does not enjoy it one bit,

[wflynn01]

Your welcome CCU form and analysis. 

[wflynn01]

var XII 6:50

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var XI 5:49

[wflynn01]

var X 4:59

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var IX 4:30

[wflynn01]

var VI 3:00

[wflynn01]

var V 2:30

[wflynn01]

var IV 2:04

[wflynn01]

var II 1:30

[wflynn01]

var II 1:00

[wflynn01]

var I 0:35

[FryChicken]

Nice job to whoever put this together!

[classiccandle27]

Variation VIII! I was looking for a minor variation for my first composition~ thank u mozart!

great variations

[Tsume81]

why ignoring the repetitions, why...

[kypsterx55]

@Tsume81 totally agree

AABA.... who are we to question the master??

[Montyleeny14]

@Tsume81 For your information, the passages are repeated. :-)))))))

[Tsume81]

@Montyleeny14 Oh no they are not. Look at the repeat signs and use your ears: the first section is repeated, the second one is not. Don't you feel that each variation leaves you wanting for more, for something missing? He put the repeats for a reason.

[Montyleeny14]

@Tsume81 Oh.

[ZAznGirlZ]

0:35

Ok whoa.

[nanioushka]

I could imagine how much fun Mozart was having while composing this.

[anohbey]

@nanioushka mozart did not "compose" this, he created variations of an already composed theme. heheh

[Michelangelo61]

sublime music as well as playing. folks, it doesn't get much better than this.

[Michelangelo61]

sublime music as well as playing. folks, it doesn't get much better than this.

[The03Show]

It was my homework to listen to this exact video.

[PR7ification]

@The03Show yea me too lol



[The03Show]

@PR7ification That is why the music course in college is great.

[TheClaux97]

was my first piece! what beautiful memories ... :D

[violadude0987]

4 people don't recognize genius when they hear it....

[Mogansss]

why do I find it annoying that he plays tr that is not there?

[roxasmanable]

@Mogansss don't you see those 2 awesome letters above some of the notes :o

[Mogansss]

@roxasmanable I do, but it seems like Clara Haskil sees a bit more of them than there is on the sheet :o

[roxasmanable]

@Mogansss oh i see what you mean. :) (or is it hear? :d) lol

[foreverdream1]

I adore this! This is a perfect song to play at a party too. First 15 seconds: aww it's so cute and simple! Then the rest of VAR I comes along and you're like WHOA! Then comes VAR II and you're just blown away.

Mozart is fabulous!

[Jesusfreak88888]

Its amazing! She's got the perfect feeling for it, i can hear againg and again, doesnt bore me

[huckfinn135]

Clara Haskil could really play Mozart!

[Thedinosaur999]

i like it but i don't like her interpretation of it... she follows her on thing instead using the markings already printed

[ngocco2]

wow It's wonderful



[Waltzhybrid92]

hwee

[grobmit1992]

I LOVE variation 8

[Youhko]

@grobmit1992 Yeah, Variation 8 is niiiiiiice.

[Mostlyharmless1985]

I could totally picture Mozart composing this just to be a jerk to preschoolers.

[Plasternik]

The VII variation has a somewhat metal feeling going on \m/

[ballan12345]

hey i m playing this song

[DavidMumo]

this piece makes me happy somehow

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa I was simply answering in an orderly manner to your orderly exposed rant.

You talked about me "SOUNDING" to you, so I just followed your logic in my writing. If you find it all dumb, then don't start the game in the first place.

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa 1. I didn't. I simply said that you were as cocksure in your wrongness as people who make a living on being authoritatively clueless. 2. You may have an ear/hearing problem if I "sounded" to you more snobbish than yourself or than anyone else. 3. You admit you do not know much about Mozart, not even the 5-year-old Mozart you were referring to. 4. Again, you may be having a hearing problem if showing that you are totally reinventing Mozart makes me a snobbish expert.

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa It's precisely the contrary what I said, if you care to read it, and my point was that if you can't tell the difference between what he wrote at 5 and what he composed at 25, it's normal that you believe these variations were composed by him at 5.

I'm still waiting for you to say exactly what are the "style" differences or similarities that you detect between K300e and, say, K330.

[SadaharuUchisawa]

@haranoe no, i can tell the difference in what he wrote at 5 and what he wrote at 25, but your point was thats i couldnt tell the difference between the minuets he wrote at 5 and the a vous dirai-je maman that he composed when he was 25, and i repied with something like: "i didnt listen to the minuets", so therefore your arguments are irrelevant. and as for the PIANO SONATAS (k330-333)we were talking about, then here you go



[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa Not as irrelevant as your pretension that by saying that you can tell the difference between Mozart's first pieces and the variations in question, when you insisted that both were composed by him at 5.

The point is not so much whether you can tell some difference, as what exactly are the differences you claim to distinguish between both compositions: everything can be said to be different from and similar to anything else, but not all distinctions are equally relevant.

[SadaharuUchisawa]

@haranoe i never said i could tell the difference, if you read the text, it says i cant because i never heard his minuets, and as for the the stuff i said about his variations, you asked for the differences in the pieces, not composers, so stop bringing haydn into this. and "flow like oil" was Mozart's own words, so dont "facepalm" it.

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa Mozart composed, he did not care to analyze. I facepalm the insistence of throwing vague phrases as if they had a clear and definite meaning, and as if they could not be applied to cases overall more dissimilar than similar.

As for pieces and composers, we use labels as "Mozart" or "Haydn" to refer to the a body of compositions characterized by certain features, which is exactly the topic we are supposedly discussing here: the "differences" between pieces and, then, composers

[SadaharuUchisawa]

@haranoe sooo, your saying that mozart just composed random pieces, of course he analysed his pieces before they were published and performed, otherwise there would be more faults in his pieces then in you... acctually, maybe not. And i still dont think you should have brought other composers into this... of course, just my opinion.

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa You are mistaking the instinctive use of skills used and shared by dozens of technicians (musicians in this case) with the erudite academical analysis of why and how those technicians did what they did. You don't think I should have brought other composers into this because it simply helps clarify the discussion and go beyond the simplistic and ultimately meaningless feeling in the guts that this guy is just right and the other is just wrong.

[SadaharuUchisawa]

@haranoe wooooah, now your confusing me, what guys right where others are wrong, cause if your refering to mozart and other composers, then the other composers arent wrong, but i still dont get it...

and didnt i imply for you to stop replying??

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa I was referring to you, Mr. "5-year-old" .

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa Ok.

[SadaharuUchisawa]

@haranoe k330 childlike and "happy". k331 un-sonata like, starts with variations and ends with rondo with ABCBAB form. k332 sudden "mood-swings". k333 features "cross-influences" and the melodies should "flow like oil" in all three movments more so than the others

[haranoe]

@SadaharuUchisawa "Childlike and happy": a subjective impression that can be applied to a work of Mozart, of Haydn or your little niece's. "Variations, rondo, ABCBAB": like in thousands of compositions of hundreds of composers of the same era. "Sudden mood-swings": again, are you describing Haydn, Mozart or just babbling pretentious "expert" vacuity?. "Cross-influences": pretty much the most typical description of virtually all XVIIIth century music in the German area. "Flow like oil": facepalm.

[funnyNickname]

OMG facts...yep...hit that shit

[DoubtingTheChic]

I love 8 and 11!

[horace10]

Nodame



[SycrosD4]

0:35

SHOWING OFF...

[thatsexywhiteguy]

@SycrosD4 3:03 more showing off...

[YellowUbi]

One day... one day, I will learn how to play this on my clarinet. One day.

[KevinJGraham100]

i love 4 and 8

[KevinJGraham100]

my favorite is 4

[jzye23]

I could listen to this all day long. -3

[AerynnMikhial]

i love 8 and 10 <3

[konanparty1]

I want to learn this~ c:

[SourExplosion]

I love 5 so much

[Diablodave363isawsum]

AlL i can hear is the abc's and ba ba black sheep

[singingstudio05]

im pretty sure i saw this on my wife and kids

[domino248]

I love this music (I'm french!) I love mozart: the song is very easy and his variations a monument. clara Haskil plays it wunderfull. I love this recording.

[gaaraisthabomb]

and to think i'm meant to play it like this for my exam in 5mnths time... (T .T)

[bmk2kmb]

I like either 3, 5, 7, 8, 12. They are all amazing

[aoazulemi3]

My ULTIMATE favorite variation is #8. I love the minor key it's in. It's so beautiful. Very nice work!

[arahavez08]

@aoazulemi3 Agreed! I always love minor key variations, they have a different sort of beauty altogether.

[MMCtaspe]

wow, it's amazing

[MMCtaspe]

wow, it's wonderful



[MrConvivator]

Danke, habe Link gesetzt

[luigiperso]

amazing command of the technique

[Plumedore]

It's beautiful, i loved so much clara askyl...

I always asked myself why, at the third variations, she doen'st play a trille and play an another note that is writed on the partition. Is there two differents versions ?

(sorry for my bad english, i'm french ^^)

[KMRockwell]

@Plumedore I've heard a number of people each play this slightly differently, especially when it comes to the trills. Many pianists choose to omit some of them. Basically, there are as many versions of this as there are pianists. Since the piece as written is expected to be playful, I think that it is the theme that is important rather than any specific passage.

[Plumedore]

@KMRockwell i totally agree with you ^^ that's beautiful and that will beautiful ! so it's pianist"s choice, and not a error of partition... thank you !

[Plumedore]

@KMRockwell i totally agree with you, that is beautiful and that will stay beautiful ! so it's the pianist's choice and not a doubtfuness on the mozart's write. Thank you !

[Catlovertea4]

Alright students - this would be the finger exercises required by Heir Mozart if you were his student.

[hjiuhfhrehui]

a cristal clear recording.

[xoNickJisaCutieox]

@hjiuhfhrehui how do they do that?

[hjiuhfhrehui]

@xoNickJisaCutieox

practice practice and more practice :P

[xoNickJisaCutieox]

@hjiuhfhrehui i meant get a recording of it lolll

[Mozart1593]

wow truly amazing piece. My favourite variation is 7

[churami1]

Beautiful! I've been listening to this all day.

[psychofish25]

Where can I get all of these as a big fat pdf file?

[flamingspinach]

@psychofish25 imslp.org has it, I bet

[whoslayedgoliath]

@psychofish25 msgme;)

[colourfulwithaU]

@psychofish25

On IMSLP. Have you found it yet? If not, I can send you a link.

[Mostlyharmless1985]

@psychofish25 Try your local library, I know the system where I live has massive amounts of sheet music available to check out. It's in deadtree format though, but hey, it's free, and legal!

[Waltzhybrid92]

@psychofish25 You can download the sheet music free from the Petrucci Music Library. I tried sending you a direct link to save you time but couldn't paste the link for some reason.

[Simonechisena]

@psychofish25 You will find it on the International Music Score Library Project website (imslp.org).

browse through all the Mozart works available and you'll find it! :)

[metstudioversions]

@psychofish25 IMSLP, search it in google ;)

[MusicalSheyzz]

I Love This!!

[PurpleQuote]

Were studing this in music for our exams at the momentt

[AreWaJesuDes]

This is my favorite piece! I keep listening to it every day, never bores me...

:-)

Genuinely masterful!

[natesquared]

I'm play this in my colleges clarinet ensemble, it's really fun! I'm playing the bass clarinet!

[MrBean69er]

I love it. Best interpretation?

[metteholm75]

The favourite recording in my world. I played it myself many years ago, - having little idea of what I was doing, so I´d like to have a go at it now. The piece is very good on harpsicord too.

[Moose225777]

Absolutely brilliant. I love this song. I'm learning it now.

[PinguYH]

yay..great music :D

[lavamaster530]

does this get harder as the variations change? like variation 1 = easy and variation 12 = hard?

[baroque500]

@lavamaster530 not exactly, the pieces are just in an order that makes sense theory-wise and musically, for example, the contrast between 4, 5, and 6 makes it interesting.

[raraandraja]

@lavamaster530 the other way around

[stagesix6]

@lavamaster530 not really....

[schnisha95]

oh God. how does she do that?????

[ruellan2003]

Awesome performance, Clara could teach us a lot about being a great artist!

[WilltheTowelie]

VIII and X were probably the best two, although I like XII and XI as well (The 32nd/64th notes in XI were amazingly well thought out). They're all genius though.

[TheNaveOfCharlemagne]

Variation VIII is totally awesome!

Mica, mica, parva stella,

Miror quaenam sis tam bella.

Super terra in caelo,

Alba gemma splendido.

Mica, mica, parva stella,

Miror quaenam sis tam bella.

[Mozart1593]

I love variation 7, it is a work of genius in itself

[xXGuYzXx]

AWESOME

[KardOfHeart]

Back after 6 months! And guess what? I can play all of them! Whew~

(I did not practice for 6 months; I practiced on and off, balancing homework with piano practice).

[brasilcarioka]

perfect