Listen to 22 pianists playing Frédéric Chopin

Update Jan. 2017: the data has been published openly under the title “The Vienna 4x22 Piano Corpus”, doi: 10.21939/4X22.

In 1999, 22 highly skilled pianists from the Vienna area performed these two excerpt from pieces by Chopin on the same Bösendorfer computer-controlled grand piano. This high-quality performance corpus was collected for my master thesis and subsequently used in several scientific studies:

• Goebl, Werner (2001). Melody lead in piano performance: Expressive device or artifact?
  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110(1), 563–572, doi: 10.1121/1.1376133.
  
  
• Widmer, Gerhard (2001). Using AI and Machine Learning to Study Expressive Music Performance: Project Survey and First Report. AI Communications 14/3, 149–162
  
  
• Stamatatos, Statis and Widmer, Gerhard (2005). Artificial Intelligence 165/1, 37–56, doi: 10.1016/j.artint.2005.01.007.
  
  
• Dixon, Simon (2005): Live tracking of musical performances using on-line time warping. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx’05), Madrid, Spain, September 20–22, pp 92–97
  
  

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Etude in E major, op. 10 No. 3	Ballade in F major, op. 38
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Etude

Ballade

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03 06 09 12 15 18 21 © by Werner Goebl, 1999