Some truth, but not really convincing. We all have our regrets but he did well enough to be remembered with love for the pleasure he gave us and the legacy he left. We are still listening Vlad. You might not have been rememered for your compositions, but your lifetime skill and perfection at the keyboard will continue to inspire many.
I am sorry too, but i cant take this seriously. Horowitz was indeed a legend, he had tremendous technique and his interpretations were brilliant. BUT as far as I know he was not a good composer and improvizer. After some years living in USA, he had more than enough time to compose. He even had a break of 10 years, no time for composing? lol
I think the problem in his low self esteem and expectations from himself and the audience regarding his compositions. Horrowitz becamse famous from a very young age because of his piano play, even the great and highly praised composer Rachmaninov admired his skills at the piano. As a perfectionist I can imagine that Horrowitz perfectionism stopped him from making and publishing more compositions (at least known to the public).
I think Horowirz is alluding to his days in Russia before he escaped. Rachmaninoff will undoubtedly be the last of the great composer-performers. He played for the money and composed for the soul.
OMG... What would popular concert repertoire have been if only Horowitz composed as much as Chopin/Rach/Liszt and the other masters whose virtuosity he matched or exceeded??? If there's anything I'm frustrated about, it is that we are without any of Horowitz's original music!!!
GrandPatzer - he always derided it., and in some ways he was right. i'd like to have seen him really apply himself - he did not seem to know how to extend form over a long period. the carmen is a structural marvel though - notice that the long 1957 version is not so much.
hes a great , great pianist, but this talk about composing? well, I just cat buy it- has wasnt that busy in the later half of his life. sorry, Vlad, cant go with you on this
He did do some composing - the only surviving things are his transcriptions and a ragtime piece he wrote, though :-( He did stop, though, in the later part of his life, as you said.
In some way...everyone of us has some kind of religion or spirituality, everyone.
In one way we are happy, in another way we are unhappy. The human is born that way.
I have my own - you think I have everything now "Ooh he's the greatest in the world, making money" - but I wanted to be a composer. And ...when I was 13-15, I had so much music which I had composed myself.
When my father and mother lost all their money, my father was an important engineer in Russia, but he lost everything.
So I taught myself, and start to concertize, and that continues until today.
I'm firstly a composer, and transcription is easy...this morning I changed my Carmen already, and added 4 or 5 new bars, because last time it was too soft.
{cannot understand most of this bit}
So that's why I'm not (pop music?) because I don't want to be a transcriber, in my heart I am a composer.
@vdmerwe In the bit you miss Horowitz refers to his transcription of 'Pictures at an Exhibition', which he says he never wrote down 'so I cannot play it now as I do not know what I am doing...'
This is what I hear hi say: Pick whatever that I didn't put down and I cannot play it. For instance the Mussorgski Picture Of An Exhibition. I didn't put it down, and I know what I am doing, because by the records, you can not doublicate it, impossible!
So,that's why I'm not publishing...
And I think he means (but that may be totally wrong, and if so, please correct me), that he didn't need to write his transcriptions down , until he forgot them, but refuses to seek them out from the record?
How amazing is that! But it's not surprising. The greatest interpreters were composers. I think of Furtwaengler, Kempff, Mahler, Rachmaninov, even Kreisler (nt to mention Liszt and other 19th century figures). Horowitz is in that tradition. I guess that's how he can play music from the inside, from the creator's perspective. Unlike with most modern interpreters, the composer is a colleague for Horowitz, not an alien.
Some truth, but not really convincing. We all have our regrets but he did well enough to be remembered with love for the pleasure he gave us and the legacy he left. We are still listening Vlad. You might not have been rememered for your compositions, but your lifetime skill and perfection at the keyboard will continue to inspire many.
noteworthy99 1 month ago
Is this really him or rocky balboa?
tjtheplay 3 months ago
hahahhah rocky balboa!!
decemberbenjamin 5 months ago
Interesting.
gerardbedecarter 10 months ago
I am sorry too, but i cant take this seriously. Horowitz was indeed a legend, he had tremendous technique and his interpretations were brilliant. BUT as far as I know he was not a good composer and improvizer. After some years living in USA, he had more than enough time to compose. He even had a break of 10 years, no time for composing? lol
musicioso 1 year ago
@musicioso
I think the problem in his low self esteem and expectations from himself and the audience regarding his compositions. Horrowitz becamse famous from a very young age because of his piano play, even the great and highly praised composer Rachmaninov admired his skills at the piano. As a perfectionist I can imagine that Horrowitz perfectionism stopped him from making and publishing more compositions (at least known to the public).
RemovdSande11 11 months ago
I think Horowirz is alluding to his days in Russia before he escaped. Rachmaninoff will undoubtedly be the last of the great composer-performers. He played for the money and composed for the soul.
smb12321 1 year ago
OMG... What would popular concert repertoire have been if only Horowitz composed as much as Chopin/Rach/Liszt and the other masters whose virtuosity he matched or exceeded??? If there's anything I'm frustrated about, it is that we are without any of Horowitz's original music!!!
GrandPatzer 1 year ago
GrandPatzer - he always derided it., and in some ways he was right. i'd like to have seen him really apply himself - he did not seem to know how to extend form over a long period. the carmen is a structural marvel though - notice that the long 1957 version is not so much.
writerspleasure 1 year ago
Sylvester Stalone does a very good Vladimir Horowitz impression. Or is it the other way around?
pookiehohn 2 years ago 12
duhrr.
kasyapa 2 years ago
lolololol
mosdomo 1 year ago
hes a great , great pianist, but this talk about composing? well, I just cat buy it- has wasnt that busy in the later half of his life. sorry, Vlad, cant go with you on this
Mike1614b 2 years ago
i'm sure he'll survive. :)
kasyapa 2 years ago
hate to break you the bad news
Mike1614b 1 year ago
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Mike1614b 1 year ago
hate to break you the bad news
Mike1614b 1 year ago
He did do some composing - the only surviving things are his transcriptions and a ragtime piece he wrote, though :-( He did stop, though, in the later part of his life, as you said.
synesthetically 1 year ago
@Mike1614b Hey Jackal, Horowitz composed too.
Umby64 1 year ago
thanks a lot for the transcription !
lola020202 2 years ago
God...now I'm feeling a lot of frustration!
My english is not very good and I can't understand what is he saying and I would like to know!!!!
Can somebody help me with a little translation???
even in english -I can understand better if I read it, but it's truth: here he sounds like Rocky Balboa...
thanks...
leonengard 2 years ago
i'll give it a try when i have some time. :)
kasyapa 2 years ago
You know, I must tell you something...
In some way...everyone of us has some kind of religion or spirituality, everyone.
In one way we are happy, in another way we are unhappy. The human is born that way.
I have my own - you think I have everything now "Ooh he's the greatest in the world, making money" - but I wanted to be a composer. And ...when I was 13-15, I had so much music which I had composed myself.
vdmerwe 2 years ago 3
When my father and mother lost all their money, my father was an important engineer in Russia, but he lost everything.
So I taught myself, and start to concertize, and that continues until today.
I'm firstly a composer, and transcription is easy...this morning I changed my Carmen already, and added 4 or 5 new bars, because last time it was too soft.
{cannot understand most of this bit}
So that's why I'm not (pop music?) because I don't want to be a transcriber, in my heart I am a composer.
vdmerwe 2 years ago 3
For your time and your kindness,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
leonengard 2 years ago
@vdmerwe In the bit you miss Horowitz refers to his transcription of 'Pictures at an Exhibition', which he says he never wrote down 'so I cannot play it now as I do not know what I am doing...'
piano4tay 2 years ago
This is what I hear hi say: Pick whatever that I didn't put down and I cannot play it. For instance the Mussorgski Picture Of An Exhibition. I didn't put it down, and I know what I am doing, because by the records, you can not doublicate it, impossible!
So,that's why I'm not publishing...
And I think he means (but that may be totally wrong, and if so, please correct me), that he didn't need to write his transcriptions down , until he forgot them, but refuses to seek them out from the record?
vlotjah 2 years ago
In some way, all we're sitting here (ev'rybody that's sitting here), everyone of us has some kind of a little frustration. Everyone. (...)
So I told myself, they gave it to me, I'll have to give it back, so I started to concertize...
(That's what I make of it, but I don't speak better english than Horowitz...)
vlotjah 2 years ago
Interesting, thanks for posting this
Sam26100 2 years ago
OH, thanks!
that can be an extra job for you!
And also thank you VERY MUCH for all those wonderful Horowitz videos.
leonengard 2 years ago
He was a wonderful man. He was actually extremely witty. It is wonderful to hear this.
cattleman6420012000 2 years ago 5
he sounds like rocky balboa haha.. great pianist though :D
Jhobbs5546 3 years ago 38
LOL! Oh jeez, that's so true.
boomzxz 2 years ago
Rocky Balboa's a great pianist?
paganiniGOGO 2 years ago 6
LOL!, you motherfucker. Now I won't be able to stop thinking about that when I hear him.
mrpossibilities 2 years ago
truly inspiring
damagecontrol85 3 years ago 2
How amazing is that! But it's not surprising. The greatest interpreters were composers. I think of Furtwaengler, Kempff, Mahler, Rachmaninov, even Kreisler (nt to mention Liszt and other 19th century figures). Horowitz is in that tradition. I guess that's how he can play music from the inside, from the creator's perspective. Unlike with most modern interpreters, the composer is a colleague for Horowitz, not an alien.
Mortimer123 3 years ago 8
thanks for posting this documentary , he was the best amazing, GENIUSS
catutaaa 3 years ago 3
you are very welcome - hope you enjoy the rest of my horowitz recordings. :)
kasyapa 3 years ago
Thank you for this very interesting document!Best regards.
argerich68 3 years ago 2