Paul de Schlözer - 2 Etudes de concert Op. 1 (audio + sheet music)

Paul de Schlözer or Paweł Schlözer (1841 or 1842 - 1898) was a Polish pianist and teacher of German descent. He was possibly also a composer, but the only two works attributed to him may have been written by Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski.
Very little is known about his life. He became the piano accompanist to Pablo de Sarasate and to his own brother, the violinist Teodor (Fyodor) de Schlözer. In 1879 he taught at the Institute of Music in Warsaw, where he succeeded Juliusz Janotha. Ignacy Jan Paderewski mentions him in his letters, sometimes by disparaging references such as "Mr. Paul" and "Pablito". Around 1892 he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his most important pupil was the music historian Leonid Sabaneyev. On 3 February 1894, he performed the Chopin Cello Sonata with the visiting Czech cellist Hanuš Wihan, at the Conservatory.
His niece Tatiana Fyodorovna Schlözer became Alexander Scriabin’s second wife. His nephew, Tatiana’s brother, was the music critic Boris de Schlözer.
He is unknown as a composer except for two études, Op. 1, for piano. The assertion made in reference materials - that Sergei Rachmaninoff used Étude No. 2 in A-flat as his daily warm-up exercise - may also not be entirely accurate (one source refers to this story as a legend). There are several easily available recordings of the étude, such as by Jorge Bolet and Stephen Hough. There is also a famous 1933 recording by Eileen Joyce. The first recording, from 1907, was by the Liszt pupil Vera Timanova. Some historians believe that de Schlözer was not the composer of these études at all, and, given their virtuosity, it is very intriguing why nothing else from his pen ever appeared, or why he did not achieve any sort of recognition as a major pianist himself. The story goes that they were in fact written by Moszkowski, who lost the manuscript to de Schlözer in a card game, who published them as his own works. The de Schlözer Étude No. 2 is longer, more elaborate, and more technically demanding than the 11th of Moszkowski's 15 Études de Virtuosité, Op. 72, but both are in A-flat and in a similar bravura style. However, it may be that these similarities gave rise to the legend that de Schlözer pieces were written by Moszkowski.
(Wikipedia)
Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. Feel free to change the video quality to a minimum of 480p for the best watching experience.
Performer: Lara Ghost
( • Lara Ghost plays Schlö... )
Original sheet music: imslp.org/wiki/2_%C3%89tudes_de_%D1%81oncert%2C_Op.1_(Schl%C3%B6zer%2C_Pavel)

[@f1f1s]

Is nobody going to comment that this is an obvious, yet mysterious digital rendition, but the original audio comes from an even more enigmatic KZbin channel (gullivor) that used to upload rare recordings from great pianists, but is now uploading digitally performed classical music from dozens of non-existent pianists with punny names (Mario Netta, Sarah Cineska, Crisi-de Nervi)? Does anyone has an explanation?

[@thenameisgsarci]

Weirdly, I also tried to search for "Lara Ghost", but nothing shows up either. If so, I must be this desperate to find someone who recorded BOTH etudes. And welcome back, dude! Waiting for an upload from you. :D

[@thenameisgsarci]

Plot twist: it's gullivor himself playing this.

[@lorenzoscocco2019]

The names are all puns in italian. For example "Lara Ghost" is 'the lobster"; "Sarah Cineska" is 'roller shutter'

[@morganmartinez8420]

@@lorenzoscocco2019 "crisi de nervi" means "mental breakdown"

[@AppaLV6]

😂Evidence? And even if digital, so what? Music doesn't care who plays it but care the notes and how the notes are played. Piano is just also part of machine.

[@juleslerenard5278]

magnifique

[@lololyoo5091]

Remember only a Ghost can come up with such a brilliant performance

[@hansdekorver7365]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWeXn2p_lrB5oLs

[@cyndi2342]

One hand at a time. I like the fact that the fingering is suggested. I was given a book full of octaves and played scale work a lot.

[@Kalen1457]

Cute piece; almost sounds like Chopin plus a little ragtime at times; the first one that is.

[@ДаринаБеликова-в3в]

Исполнение блестящее! Невероятная виртуозность! Что касается самой музыки, то , по моему мнению профессионала, она имеет неземное происхождение. Автор её не человек, а существо из параллельного, духовного мира, находящегося на уровне , обладающем более высокими вибрациями. Человеческий мозг с большим трудом воспринимает такое насыщенное ,звучание огромного количества звуков на таких высоких скоростях! Звучит ,вроде бы.,красиво, но могу сравнить восприятие с такой ситуацией, когда вам дают очень красивое на вид яблоко, которое на самом деле лишь имеет вид этого известного фрукта, а на вкус воспринимается, как нечто иное. Произведения такого рода и сочиняются, и исполняются теми, кто пришёл погостить в наше пространство из высших миров.

[@pankats1222]

3:08 Second etude

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

I will listen to this a lot. But I don't think I will ever be able to play it!

[@leif1075]

Why not?

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

@@leif1075 it is very difficult.....

[@leif1075]

@@aramkhachaturian8043 yea bit it's difficult for eberyone even piano prodiges even glenn gould or whoever is playing it so if you just practice little by little

[@pocoloco1200]

I see you everywhere Aram XD

[@niccolopaganini4268]

@@leif1075 why Glenn Gould?

[@mojeo522]

I can clearly hear why people thought this was Moszkowski's.

[@nandoflorestan]

It is so clear when we hear it that... well... are we sure this isn't Moszkowski!?

[@db7sib7m]

1:09 reminds me Moszkovski's piano concerto in E

[@PieInTheSky9]

Oh yes good catch!

[@charlesbluett8195]

It’s also a figure used in Moszkowski’s 4th grand Etude from his ‘School of Double Notes’ op64 - only difference is here the fourth semiquaver of each beat is missing the fourth interval above it

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Greatsarci...great! Thanks for this new one.

[@faust6241]

Perfect etudes

[@cambridgeport90]

Those chromatic sixths in the second etude ... Gods above I can't do that. I wish I could, but I've technically been playing the piano for about 25 years now, and still I never mastered it. I probably never will, then. LOL

[@rafaelgomez-ruiz8569]

What a discovery!

[@hfidler]

Unbeliveable. Must have taken MANY hours of practice.

[@josenildo2189]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃😃😃😃🎶🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵 thank you so much

[@ksholomitsky]

I've played the second etude on my exam last year, it was insanely difficult... Now I'm trying to learn the first etude, I think this is the most difficult piano etude ever :) I hope I succeed... P.S. I think Lara Ghost (pseudonym, ofc) is a real person because MIDI cannot do these mini pauses, accents and intone very humanly at all...

[@FredHMusic-gr7nu]

Amazing stuff!

[@isidoraurekar8281]

So charming 😍

[@thenameisgsarci]

For those wondering, this is a different video from the ones I uploaded 5 years ago: No. 1 (performed by Josef Lhevinne): kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6SmdaB3Z9CIraM No. 2 (performed by Marc-Andre Hamelin): kzbin.info/www/bejne/epvNe2yufMdgbas

[@snorefest1621]

absolute trasure

[@theresaannlopezjackson5338]

the moment a robot plays piano better than almost all pianists

[@eusebiusseo9809]

정말 좋은곡, 어려운 곡 이네요👍👍

[@eusebiusseo9809]

@@zerostein9394 한국사람 없는줄 알았는데 댓글 달자마자 한국분이 답글.... ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ당황했어요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 감사합니다

[@kinda1994]

그러게용...

[@ilovebradmehldau1572]

Wow

[@EddieWinchester]

1st etude sounds like Do Your Ears Hang Low ..

[@anhducduong0105]

The first one is probably most diffficult etude ever

[@dalcassian8351]

Lovely sound would be painstaking practice though

[@김송장-m8m]

How can i get high quality sound track?

[@theresaannlopezjackson5338]

why the hell I like more the interpretation of a robot than a human being?

[@hansdekorver7365]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWeXn2p_lrB5oLs

[@ksholomitsky]

Why do you think that this is a robot interpretation? It can't do these mini stretches, pauses... And look at the reprise in the first etude when there is D2 (when the d flat octave in bass). How robot can do that? This octave is played later then the right hand is played...

[@pawncube2050]

@@ksholomitsky This is totally normal for a "robot" to do, maybe not 30 years ago, but in modern times its quite easy to program, there are plenty of people making realistic midis

[@ksholomitsky]

@@pawncube2050 hmmm, okay, I didn't realize that... However, it's my favourite and most correct recording :)

[@pawncube2050]

@@ksholomitsky It sure is the most correct one haha

[@justdoitsolutions269]

well it is definitely not Josef Lhevinne

[@nikol4y.l]

Yeah this is definitely Moszkowski

[@jetenza2434]

Sound like a Chopin Polonaise.

[@nikb6176]

Geoffrey Tozer could actually play these Etudes... The second is on video of him playing it on KZbin, instead of these ridiculous midi files.

[@AppaLV6]

How is midi ridiculous 😂 do you really know what it is? Your comment is but more ridiculous 😂

[@antonioluissilvapiano]

This is obviously played by a machine. Sounds terrible honestly,

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

This is an actual pianist, not MIDI and not a sample library. You guys are listening through the wrong orifice.

[@j.thomas1420]

You can clearly tell it's a computer just by listen to the left hand of the first bars of the second étude. No human plays like that.

[@hansdekorver7365]

@@j.thomas1420 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWeXn2p_lrB5oLs