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A snowy day, a quiet room, and Alicia de Larrocha’s Granados. Listening slowly, I found myself drawn not to the famous Nightingale, but to the deeper balance of Goyescas and the improvisatory spirit behind it. A reflection on listening, improvisation, and finding one’s place inside a composer’s world.

What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? A pianist’s practice notes on Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 9, exploring analysis, harmony, listening, and intuition.

Music as an integrated art, where sound, rhythm, emotion, and movement unfold together in time.

Sound followed life. Music came later.

Before words existed, sound carried meaning. A quiet reflection on how singing was born.

Learning a new piece of music begins with listening. A reflection on sound, musical notes, and how music becomes familiar over time.

Sound comes before words. Before meaning, before explanation, music begins with listening.

Listening as memory, history, and voice quietly intersect.

Before meaning, there is sound.

Chopin stands within a long musical lineage. By tracing what he absorbed from the composers before him, we begin to hear how his own language emerged