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by Fun2WinPrizes on November 28th, 2005

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What is the hardest classical piece for an orchestra to play?

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  • by Aminor on February 7th, 2006

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    If you mean what specific piece, there's really no answer -- no one work that's dreaded by everyone. Experienced professional musicians are just too good. But there's a general answer: the one that's furthest from what they're used to. Usually that will mean something highly modern, perhaps atonal, perhaps stochastic, presented to an orchestra whose accustomed repertoire is standard classical. It's just the expansion to a 70 or 80 people of the problem that any individual has confronting something not only not seen before, but of a type not seen before. And it happens to anyone -- there was serious, seismic-level grumbling from lots of first-rate orchestras when Stravinsky came along. And then when Schoenberg came along. And then when random scores came along, etc. etc. But pros catch on quickly.

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