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Apart from playing trombone in the school band and the usual radio pap, I discovered music in a serious way at a relatively late age – when I was around 12. That was around the time I went crazy over an abandoned piano and thought I could learn to play all the Ludwig van Beethoven sonatas in a year or so “if I applied myself.” At least I didn’t lack for foolhardy ideas about how music actually works. A year or so later I began my first attempt to compose a symphony — to “prepare the way” for the opera on "King Lear" for which posterity had destined me — when I discovered with horror that my main theme in E major had been stolen by Anton Bruckner. But I’ve been trying to make up for lost time ever since, and music is a passion inseparably ...more

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Reflecting on the 2025 Honens International Piano Competition

Élisabeth Pion was named Gold Laureate at the 2025 Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary (Tim Nguyen)

My report on the 2025 edition of the Honens Competition, which I attended in Calgary in October, has been published here by International Piano magazine.

For a few days in October two leading piano competitions overlapped. In Calgary, gateway to the Canadian Rockies, the 2025 Honens

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Average rating: 3.78 · 64 ratings · 9 reviews · 131 distinct works

	Decoding Wagner: A Basic Guide into His World of Music Drama 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The tragedy of Antigone, the Theban princesse. Written by T.M. (1631) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das große GodmodeTrader-Handbuch: Die besten Strategien der Toptrader by Thomas May (editor), Jochen Stanzl (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two tragedies viz. Cleopatra, Queene of AEgypt, and Agrippina, Empress of Rome / written by Thomas May. (1654) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophy Books 1982-86 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friends Under Construction: Leader's Guide 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Asa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Organisationskultur: Zur Rekonstruktion und Evaluation heterogener Ansätze in der Organisationstheorie (Studien zur Sozialwissenschaft 189) (German Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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