I Miss Music

To be precise: I miss playing the piano. I’m listening to Wilhelm Kempff playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 (the Moonlight Sonata). True masters, both of them. I used to play that piece a lot. I love it, really. But after moving with my friends (and leaving the piano at my parents’ house) I didn’t play a single note.

I never was very good at it. Average, maybe. But I didn’t play for others to listen to me. I used to play for myself. Mastering a new passage pleased me immensely. I had forgotten how much I had poured into music and how much I had gotten in return. Until tonight…

My parents sold the piano years ago. So now I long for a new one. There are more important things that I should save my money for and there are other things that I’ve been wishing for for a long time. But what I really want now, at this moment, is to get back to playing.

Maybe, dear readers, you used to play an instrument yourselves but don’t do so anymore. Maybe, then, you can understand my feelings.

If you want to listen to Kempff playing the sonata, look here for the first, second and third movement. The last one is absolutely stunning and a piece that I have never been able to master.