Although not very good, I do enjoy playing the piano and of course love to play what I can of Beethoven.
I recently purchased a book of B's music, mainly because it had transcribed most of B's symphonies - it is aimed at easy to intermediate players so obviously nothing like Liszt's transcriptions. But some just don't seem to work very well to me and I think it might be because they have been transcribed in a different key. For example, I did already have a transcription of the first movement of Eroica (in the original key of E flat major) which sounded good, but the one I have just purchased is transcribed into C major and sounds rubbish and is not even easier to play!
Why do transcribers divert from the original key I wonder?
I recently purchased a book of B's music, mainly because it had transcribed most of B's symphonies - it is aimed at easy to intermediate players so obviously nothing like Liszt's transcriptions. But some just don't seem to work very well to me and I think it might be because they have been transcribed in a different key. For example, I did already have a transcription of the first movement of Eroica (in the original key of E flat major) which sounded good, but the one I have just purchased is transcribed into C major and sounds rubbish and is not even easier to play!
Why do transcribers divert from the original key I wonder?
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