Word: arnowitt
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Vermont's Michael Arnowitt, on the other hand, is one man who has taken on the ambitious project of performing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas...
Performed by Michael Arnowitt...
This, in itself, is not out of the ordinary according to Arnowitt. One pianist performed all of the sonatas in the span of two weekends at Boston's Jordan Hall, and another plowed through them in one weekend. With an average performance time of 30 minutes each that came to 16 hours...
What makes Arnowitt's undertaking so notable is that he is performing each of the sonatas to coincide chronologically with the age Beethoven was when he composed them. As the German composer wrote his last sonata when he was 52 years old, Arnowitt's project is truly a lifelong undertaking...
...listening to some of those early sonatas and I noticed that he was about 26 when he composed them, so that was part of my motivation in doing this," said Arnowitt, who is presently 26 years old. "I thought it would be interesting for another reason: Somebody could follow me as I get older and watch my artistic, as well as technical, progress...