Evolution Of The Romantic Period Piano Playing Techniques

In Western music history,"Romantic period" refers to the1790—1910years of this historical stage, that is, before and after one hundred years of the19th century, throughout the entire19th century and continued into the early1900s. This is due to the source starting the latter half of the18th century, European art and literature there is called a "romantic" new style trend, and this respect for personal feelings and artistic expression of thoughts and feelings of the "romanticism" ideology soon influenced the art of music, became the most dominant and guiding the creation of a dominant trend composer.Initially, piano was not to be imperfect by pianist, when the Harpsichord and Clavichord is sought after people mainstream Clavier. With the social development, to18during the second half, the Harpsichord and Clavichord playing has been difficult to meet people’s needs and aesthetic, but this time, through continuous improvement of the piano, because of its expressive power gradually attracted the World attention, in the18th century draws to a close, piano replaced the Harpsichord and Clavichord’s position to become the mainstream keyboards.19th—century piano compared to other instruments more comprehensive features, a rapid increase in the social status of the piano, people are increasingly interested in learning the piano, the increasing demand on piano talents; At the same time, a growing number of solo piano concert, a large number of the pianist appeared in the public eye, most objective performance of the "technical" factors determine the success of a pianist playing a highly skilled pianist or not, the more the more sought after by people. The Romantic period is the peak of piano music’s development and then piano playing into the virtuoso’s era.The evolution of piano playing techniques is not merely reflected in the increase or playing techniques increase the difficulty, and also the following aspects are closely linked:The first is the development and improvement of the piano. Piano playing techniques is reflected on the piano, there would be the presence of piano playing techniques, the development and improvement of the piano but also to promote innovation and perfect expression of the playing techniques.The second point is piano music creation. The composer of the Romantic period by the influence of the arts of literature, painting, theater sister, appeared in large numbers the headline works and literary works related to the genre, such as the creation of the piano works of comedy divertimento, Songs without Words, Ballade. Composer for a more perfect expression of the content of the works, to express their inner emotional sustenance given a different musical language, continue to explore appropriate way of playing as well as extending the existing playing skills. These are undoubtedly contributed to the evolution of piano playing techniques.Finally is skills training and teaching system. Piano techniques to be passed on through the teaching and training, changes in piano playing techniques often reflected in skills training and teaching awareness, while the right skills training methods in line with the laws of nature and teaching will also promote awareness of the playing techniques of fast improve, these two have complementary close contact.It can be seen:the evolution of piano playing techniques are not alone, it is not only the technical difficulty, and the increase of the way of playing, its evolution along with the piano own improvement, the development of the piano music of creation, piano training mode and the establishment of the teaching system’s development and evolution. Among them, musical instrument is the foundation of the techniques, musical works is the carrier of techniques, teaching is the important transfer mode of techniques. They influence each other and development forward.Therefore, this article is based on upper view, from historical books, composer literature and so on, trying to depart from these important factors, comb through and analyze, to seize the key, finishing and dig out more clearly the evolution of the Romantic period piano playing techniques changed significantly, find out which mutual influence factors, hoping for some inspiration and help in the practice of teaching and playing.