My Favorite Composers

I like music. However, I like some music more than other. My favorite eras of music were the romantic and the impressionist ones; out of which Chopin and Debussy are my favorite composers (well, there is also Mendelssohn). What are your favorite genres of Classical Music?

I now proceed to post my favorite interpretation of perhaps the most famous Chopin piece: that of Yundi Li.

I have a funny story to tell about this lovely piece.

When I was little, my mom, being an interior designer, would remodel our home to be more beautiful and functional. Thus, we often had contractors work on our home. One day, they were in the basement, and I was practicing upstairs on our digital piano. This piano had a lot of built-in demos. They were full pieces, and the pieces were amazing. Fantasie Impromptu was one of these.

Fantasie was my favorite demo to listen to: it represented the difficult and impressive qualities of music that are speed and expression. So, I would often listen to it. When I had finished playing some song at the time, I turned the demo on and left to go do something else.

The contractors were stunned. When my mom came home that day, she was told that I am a child prodigy and that I should be playing in concert halls. Mom, in a confused manner, asked what this was all about (I was good for my age, but not even close to THIS good. I still haven't learned this piece). When they explained, she told them what really was going on.

There is nothing especially meaningful to this story, I just find it funny that the contractors actually believed that I was playing this song. I wish.