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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:

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Etude in E major, op. 10 No. 3

Ballade in F major, op. 38

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Etude

Ballade

1.34MB 01

1.37MB 04

1.28MB 07

1.37MB 10

1.17MB 13

1.11MB 16

1.17MB 19

1.28MB 22

1.2MB 02

1.1MB 05

1.14MB 08

1.48MB 11

1.42MB 14

1.33MB 17

1.41MB 20

1.3MB Avg.

1.30MB 03

1.41MB 06

1.12MB 09

1.23MB 12

1.44MB 15

1.14MB 18

1.4MB 21

 

2.043MB 01

2.18MB 04

1.931MB 07

2.168MB 10

1.988MB 13

2.006MB 16

2.102MB 19

2.092MB 22

2.12MB 02

1.754 05

2.131MB 08

2.311MB 11

2.368MB 14

2.260MB 17

1.910MB 20

2.2MB Avg.

2.134MB 03

2.269MB 06

2.144MB 09

1.907MB 12

1.983MB 15

1.919MB 18

2.130MB 21

© by Werner Goebl, 1999