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statement: relistening a double LP (FSM 33 056 / 57 FONO Münster 1985) containing compositions of 15 different female piano composers, completely played by pianist Rosario Marciano (female) I was glad to find any information about this pianist. I guess she got enough merrits to spent memory capacity of Wikipedia for an article.

To quote from the record cover: "...first concerts when 6 years old, lived in Europe since 1962, continueing education with Jörg Demus, Alfred Brendel, Paul Badura Skoda,

first prices (not specified) in international contests,

she founded a museum in Caracas accomodating her piano collection of historic instruments,

she achieved obligatory music lessons for pupils in Venezualian schools in 1973, !!!

she was interested in female as composer and identified more then 2.000 female composers."

best regards, Arnim Dexheimer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.14.155.139 (talk) 01:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Frankel, film score composing- I still say, remove the larger category.

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I have scores and recordings of several of his concert works and couldn't agree more- it's through a review of his symphonies on cpo in Fanfare, I believe, that I came to know his music, and I'd heard at least 6 of the 8 symphonies and a number of other works before I heard any of his film music. What did I mean (and I still stand by my deletion)? I meant, that having both categories was redundant, if one was a subcategory of the other at least (and if not, there should be such a link formed). The more specific category gets used. Otherwise, we'd have

Musician
Composer
British composer
English composer
English film score composer
and this is much advised-against. (Having his other musician-related activities- instrumental, conducting, iirc?- no problem there...
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Classical pianists (recorded)

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Dear Ronan, while writing some biographical notes on pianists I have on a couple of occasions added a few to the list of recording pianists. Some I think are legitimate (e.g. Pouishnoff) but others you may think too insignificant. It is difficult to know where the boundary lies. If you think some I have added are outwith the purpose of the list, (easy to check on the History tab), please strike them out as you think appropriate. best wishes Dr Steven Plunkett 01:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

It's not for me to decide, but for you! If you care enough about a pianist, and they have left recordings, then add them, I say. All the best Rconroy 20:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for quality articles around classical pianists, being one yourself, such as Felicja Blumental, Nikita Magaloff, Fei-Ping Hsu and List of classical pianists (recorded), for critically fixing wrong adjectives, for service from 2006, - Ronán, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Thank you for adding to BWV 78. Can you add a source for the details, please? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 8 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

The details are taken from the score, available from IMSLP. I'll reference them in some sort of way. Rconroy (talk) 14:22, 10 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
It's under the external links, you can just frame it as ref. However, things directly from the score are frowned upon here as original research (WP:OR). It would be safer if you found a reliable musicologist who arrived at these observations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:26, 10 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
This brings up an issue that bothers me a litte, Gerda.
It's hard to see how quoting from a score is any more original than quoting from a text. No judgement is required, simply an ability to read. It does not require "any analysis or synthesis of published material that reaches or implies a conclusion not stated by the sources. "
I don't know how reliable I am as a musicologist, but I can score read!
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