You may not have known I was pregnant for several reasons. 1  You canât see me so you couldnât tell I that was already having problems tying my shoes. 2  It never really came up in a blog post. 3  With a couple miscarriages under my belt, I take my time on making baby announcements.
The story is told that Beethoven cut off the legs of the piano so he could hear the vibrations of the piano. This is perhaps not necessarily true, as many pianos of the time were made with removable legs so they could be carried into the various courts of the kings and emperors for performances.
There you have it. Also, in an article published in 1895 in the famous Etude magazine, there was a survey done among the leading professors of piano at the Paris Conservatory, as to the hardest piece of piano music ever written, and the winner was Balakirev's Islamey. But of course, this predates all the music of the 20th century.