Amédée Méreaux and his Infamous Études 

It's called bravura for crying out loud

@@lerippletoe6893 yes. its also called mereaux 24 though

@riz does stuff but the title Bravura gives the insights into what it's about. You don't call something Bravura and expect profundity, it is about showing off. This case being leaps and hand crossings, the techniques of the etude.

Hah, out of all contemporary composers, Hamelin is not the one to call others "trash". Listen to some of Hamelin's originals. It's ridiculous

@@tomasjosefpiano8902 I don't think Hamelin said that. At least he didn't use the word trash as far as I can see. But anyway, out of all piano music experts, do you believe you are the one to call Hamelin's compositions ridiculous ?

You may not realize it, or else you are too polite - but with what you say here you have disproved the thesis of Mr. Classical Nerd. One may like the music or not, but the composer himself obviously did consider them concert pieces when played in a masterful as well as a musical way. The very fact that he uses the word "caprices" indicates that he intends them as potential concert pieces, just as Pierre Rode's famous technical studies for violin, the 24 Caprices, are themselves of high musical quality (though rarely performed). Obviously if one does not find the music that is in them, one cannot do it, or "it is not worth the effort." But if one does, it will be conveyed to the listeners, or at least some of them. Mr. Seon-Yong Hwang has done this, and his renditions bring out the musical charm of these etudes, some of which are characteristic pieces like "scherzo alla napoletana" and "salterelle". But it is insanely difficult to do this - to conquer the technical difficulties AND bring out the music, yet it is impossible ot bring out the music without conquering the difficulties. No. 60 is a real "monster", yet having listened to it several times, I am starting to enjoy the "monstrous" music even of this one. There are of course purely technical studies like Hanon, or Brahms's 51 Technical Studies, which are truly not intended for performance - or for violin, the studies of Sevcik or Dounis, for example.

Hello. First off, I wrote this because I thought it would interest Classical Nerd, not to disprove his thesis. Secondly, I appreciate and respect anyone playing Méreaux or doing something which centers around Méreaux, that includes naturally Seon-Yong Hwang and Classical Nerd. I realize the difficulties both in technical manners and bringing out the music and I am amazed by anyone who can do so :). Méreaux is a great composer, he composes music like no one else. Of course, everyone has their opinions on this. I do not intend to mock anyone, including Classical Nerd, as I said. I work in The Méreaux Project (a project centered around Méreaux), and in the past weeks I have found information that clearly indicates Méreaux did not intend the etudes to be musical pieces. From halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03090275 , p. 38 ll. 9-11: “The author of this collection did not want to write brilliant pieces for the piano, he intended only to showcase the skill of virtuosos in salons or fashionable concerts. It was not intended to make a fashionable work (…).” -Berlioz Of course you couldnt have known this. But me and many others still see his etudes as musical pieces despite this fact - the music clearly speaks for that -, and even when I wrote this comment I fully agree that they are concert pieces (as you said, they are also caprices, which further indicates that). Again, I apologize if I have upset you in any kind of way or if I made a misunderstanding throughout this comment now. As I said in my comment above, "I dont think this completely means Méreaux wanted his 60 etudes to be concert pieces, since "it can be considered" ", so I only assumed that was the case because it wasnt mentioned clearly.

Good luck ✊👑

Where did you find out about Prokofiev?

@@pawncube2050 I think it was in the liner notes for the Katsaris disk that features Méreaux etudes.

Every fourth video is a composition masterclass, so the next one will be the fifth installment.

Classical Nerd Thanks. I was asking because I sent you a choir piece of mine that I would like you to look at.

I like his mazurka “eleganza” Seon-yong hwang played it

Despite Hamelin's comment on its lack of musicality, I would still recommend listening to Etude No. 60. It's one of my favourite pieces at the moment. As well as this No. 44 is a nice listen sometimes.

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Unfortunately, I don't cover living composers, as-since their careers are not over-it's impossible to do a proper, holistic retrospective. However, there's currently a request for a New Complexity video at lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html and I've added this request to that one.

Plus finnissy is absolute trash and sounds like 12 toddlers running around on a pinao

The sources, at least at the time I accessed them, contained that information. If it's changed since then ... not sure I can help you.

@@ClassicalNerd No, its alright, dont worry. Do you perhaps know what kind of source?

I made this video over a year ago, so any chance of me remembering what particular bit of information came from which source has long since passed (which is why I started listing them in the description in the first place).

@@ClassicalNerd Yes, I understand. I made this comment because I did not find that kind of information, even in the sources you listed. So it must have been changed; however, thanks!

They are more like Czerny's studies but on steroids

Etude no 61 - "Good luck pianists"

Dude I’ve got some bad news

You already requested Carter on the Boulez video. lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html is consistently updated to reflect new requests and you can track the progress of Carter there.