Lang Lang on Kuhlau: Piano Sonatina in C Major, Op.20 No.1: 1. Allegro 

Beautiful I love how Lang Lang plays the best melodies in history.

When you mix up Debussy and Billy Joel as the greatest pianist alive I guess I can mix up all notes in everything I've ever played

I've always admired Lang Lang but could never relate to him until I saw him playing this piece. Most of his performances sound and look like something I could never do, but this was one of the first songs I learned when I was a young student. I still don't have it mastered (because I don't practice enough). Like him, I am also a big fan of C Major songs! Ha! P.S. Looks like I have been playing the "dry" version all these years.

the childhood feels omg. this song is a standard intermediate piano bible song. thank you for giving it the royal treatment

Kuhlau is sadly often pooh-poohed as a composer, because most people, even most classical musicians, know him only through his 19 piano sonatinas, but he also wrote 19 full-blown piano sonatas, and some of these are quite complex and challenging. A new four-volume edition of them was published in Japan a few years back, and I managed to pick these up in Tokyo. I'm especially fond of his three op. 26 sonatas--which have never been recorded or put on RU-vid, a fact which just blows me away, considering their quality. The first of these is also relatively simple, but very high-speed (Molto allegro and a relentless Prestissimo, a "perpetuum mobile"); it's the most "manic" sonata I've ever encountered. The second and third are technically very, very demanding, and their slow movements are gorgeous. But Kuhlau was under pressure from the various publishers in his region to write simple piano pieces, because they sold well; his op. 127 sonata was written early, but he never got it published in his lifetime because the publishers thought it too difficult. It's likely that he had actually written a lot more than we'll ever know about, because his house went up in flames, together with all of his scores and unpublished stuff. He died not long after, probably from the effects of smoke inhalation. As a child, my first introduction to sonatinas and sonatas included Kuhlau, of course, and these were my favorites among the other "usual suspects." As an adult, I stopped playing the piano for twenty years (constant moving), and then picked it up again, so when I wanted to "get my fingers back," I went on a steady diet of Czerny and Kuhlau for a while.

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Lang Lang how could you play that piece in 2:07 so beautifully??? It sounds so different and enjoyable when you played it. It seems I always got the dry sound though.

Spending with your piano music at the end of that day is almost spiritual healing for me.🥰Thanks you, Lang Lang❤❤❤

Maestro. Easy for you, not so easy for us. You are a natural musician, one of a kind, your talks are inspirational love them. So happy when I find you on U Tube or Facebook xxx

There are so many dynamic changes in the Kuhlau piece. I had the same experience with mixing up Mozart and Kuhlau pieces, playing them about the same time! Lol. Love lang lang

Without any doubt: You are the Master of the Keys - it is extraordinary to have this load of emotional sense in hands and fingers. I am pretty sure you are a music magician 💫🌟✨ I could spend all of my time listening to your explanations and teaching - you are a wonderful precious personality. Have a nice Christmas Season 🎄😘🌺

Classical music is one of the best types of music! Lang is my most favorite musician ever! (Also I know no one else besides Lang Lang soooo....)

I'm playing this sonatina right now, the Andante is beautiful too

Lang Lang going off on a tangent was quite fun!

How I wish you would post the whole piece. I’ve heard this many times, but you brought it to life.Thank you, for this and the Beethoven P Concerto 4. Wonderful.

Outstanding!

I’ve been looking for this piece for awhile. I’m glad I found it. I played it in childhood. 🥰 it sounds like Mozart, but easier to play with both hands.

Lang Lang would you please make an online masterclass? Would love that.

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Ahahaha I remember I played this piece when I was a kid and there were so many pieces that I could hear inside...it was so funny😂

Beautiful sound！

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I've just got back into playing and this is the piece I've been practising lately. There's something so inspiring about such a wonderful pianist celebrating these accessible pieces.

Love it 😊

Thank Lang Lang!

Thank you, so cute and smart, then inspirational.

So funny! Same here. I learned Mozart’s Sonata Facile first too then asked to do Kuhlau, and I’d mix it up 😆 Can’t go wrong with C Major - no accidentals mean less accidents!!!

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what a joyable video thanks

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Good job lang lang!!!

How amazing! It’s absolutely beautiful🤩 I’m learning this piece recently, it’s really challenging in the 16th notes part 😶

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Same hereee! When I first tried learning Piano Sonatina in C major, Op. 20 No. 1: 1 Allegro I thought it sounded too much like Mozart. Eventually soon after I learned Mozart.

Thank you Lang Lang

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2:24: how I used to play it as a little kid

For Elise is A minor, but the subtitles said it was E minor, which was wrong.

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Hi! I would like to know which henle level is this piece. Thank you!

I wanna Lang Lang be my teacher 😍😍

Lool... Love the confusion part

Summary: u have to play it elegantly and light

When I here any music, it’s kind of exciting to me.

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Für Elise is not in e minor and I think he is also saying a minor !

Me encantaría, escuchar en español, todas las explicaciones, de Lang Lang. Ojalá se pueda. Gracias!!! Argentina.

I just wanna tell that for new pianists, kids etc is not that easy to be so relax, even if you like the song. For example, me, I love this song but I have tried very much to play it in a relaxing and joyful way (im not sure if even now I can play it in good).

Its like comparing the beginning of Clementi’s Op. 36 no 6 with Mozart’s Rondo alla turca... XD

1:59 he messed up. All the confidence I need

Hello. I needed a little help. It's been 3 years that I've been playing the piano. Since, I believe, 4 weeks ago my teacher has told me to practicing this piece. I've practiced it a lot. I tried different techniques and slower tempo but I still can't play those semiquaver notes fluently. I would really appreciate it if you could give me a tip on what I should do.

Jejeje! Esta pieza es muy bonita pero bien tocada, como lo hace Lang Lang....

0:33 BEST JOKER EVER!!

He really can say anything musically . Buniatishvili can anyone play te Schumann the way she and Mehta did such freedom too fast but amazing musical wise . I would luv to hear what Lupu , Argerich & Barenboim ,Brendel think of such unbridled but very Schumanesque freedom !

I would like to meet this master atleast on video call .lots to learn from him

Wow

I'd recommend Jacqueline du Pre's version. (Yes, you read that right, and it's not transcribed for the cello.) It's from a documentary and she's being watched by her husband, Daniel Barenboim, and others. He seems to approve. She really brings out the joy in the piece.

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when did you first started playing piano untill you get to who you are today ?

It is fun.watch it.

Kuhlau's piano music is great, like a mixture of Bach and Mozart. Check out Jano Jendo's CD on Naxos, these relatively unfamous pieces worth a listen.

As a Chinese, I can feel the Dongbei humor in his soul. hhhh

I made the same mistake today when my mind wandered and when I looked up at the music score I realized the notes were different ... duh! Yep ... playing the standard Mozart. Now back to Kuhlau ... which is gorgeous if played with the dynamics of Beethoven.

Its really amazing to know that Lang Lang was Inspired to play piano by a cartoon cat Tom

good introduction

Lang Lang, as the spokesperson for VIP Peilian, You can't do anything for profit. Take the VIP's advertising endorsement fee, and work with the VIP sparring business organization to defraud the parents of their money. Defrauded millions of parents and ran away with billions of dollars. However, Lang Lang deleted everyone's messages with no conscience, and did not stand up to speak for everyone.please STAND OUT for teachers and kids! So many people buy this program because of you!!

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Never thought I'd ever hear billy joel and debussy in the same sentence.

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谢谢朗朗

what is the song at 01:00

"fur Elise" is in a minor, not e minor.

前段莫札特，后段挺贝多芬的

Is fir elise in e minor?

The 30 people who put thumbs down on this video SHALL BE CAUGHT!

Hehe hehe

i played this song before

fur elise is not e minor, it is a minor. And a minor is the relative minor of C major which is a related key, but e minor isn't.

Haha! Fur Elise is E Minor?

Für elise is actually in a minor lol he said ist right but the subs are wrong

I PLAY FUR ELISE I DANT HAVE PIANO SONATINA IN C MAJOR OP20 NO11 ALLEGRO I THAT SONG BOOK

classical music is boring only when its played boringly

the transcript is a bit wrong - Fur Elise is in A minor - not E minor...

Most definitely he cannot play it as bad as I can!

I made a mass

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I love this great artist, but I believe it is time for him to take infantory of his mothers words: "someday all of this wont be worth anything" since the full recovery of his left arm is medically highly unlikely.

Fur Alice is A minor

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Not sure if anyone would have the thought that he/she can play as good if we could lay our fingers on Steinway keyboard....(ok, jz kidding..)

That kid is me

Eh...he's OK. His hand and elbow positions make me nervous. Not sure why everyone thinks this guy is such a genius. He's just playing other people's music. Big whoop.

Lol

Spends his whole life building one of the greatest names in classical music: mixes up Billy Joel and debussy Me: so he's human too💀

Really funny

I always confused 😕🤔 two of these songs. He is realky right. 😂😆

Hahaha