First, listen to No. 32, the last of the last three piano sonatas.
Up until now, I had been popping in small pieces of music to study MIDI. However, a former colleague of mine, a pianist, was going to play this piece as the main part in a recital, so I decided to tackle the piece recklessly. Fortunately, he kindly agreed to give me remote lessons so that I could learn how to create the sound. It took me more than half a year to finish the song, at least at a preliminary level. I guess my MIDI inputting skills and music level were too low.
Looking at my lesson notes from that time, I found that I had to "correct" almost every single measure. In addition, I struggled with how to make the teacher's suggestions concrete in MIDI. For example, around the 23rd bar of the first movement, he said, "It should have a swell like a rugged potato rolling around...!" What shall I do...?
But the most difficult part of No. 32 was the Adagio in the second movement. The problem was the interpretation of "L'istesso tempo," which is written each time a new variation is introduced. I felt that I was too focused on the content of the variations and neglected the tempo that runs through the entire piece.
(2020,0918) Well, as is always the case, when I listen to it again now, I am concerned about areas that could be fixed a little more. I'm going to fix it little by little and have you listen to it again. (Rev.1)
Title: Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111
Sound Source: Vienna Synchron Concert D-274
Audio file format: mp3