I know about this from piano tiles

HAHAHHAHAA

Hell yeah, it is. I'm a pianist, as well, and I hate it when I have to play in cold weather. My hands tense up so bad, and my fingers are desperate not to move. 😅

Dangleplums AMEN

This is true

so are you.

but did you smash one last time??

1000000% agree 👨🏻‍🔧

Best comment ever

Great.....

No, he did not believe it, because he took the can to the room with him, it means hope ...

read the book my friend

No. He knew he was safe.

he actually played nocturne in real life i think, but for cinematic purposes, director chose Ballade.

@@iLastStar Pretty sure he's hitting the right notes for the Ballade

Or, knowing his life story (he helped many like Spzilmen before dying in a Soviet POW camp), he was wondering about the people he tried to help and if they were okay.

Doubt it. Probably thought, "fuck it, the war is lost".

yeah i also though of this, like how many young people full of talent and different experience did they just turn into nothing, pretty heart breaking and hard pill to swallow to anyone in the right mind

@@andwhat5248 No not true, learn about him, Wilm Hosenfeld. He helped a lot of jews and poles during the entire war, after his death he was even rewarded the Righteous among nations by Israel

I think he thought of how horrible wars are, and how we are all the same, how we all shine on our own, and how sad our existence can be

Piękna muzyka Chopina w pewien sposób pojednała tych mężczyzn .Nie czują się wrogami.Na chwilę jakby zapomnieli o wojnie.Myślami są na sali koncertowej. Jest to piękna , wzruszająca scena. Będę ją pamiętać do końca życia.

he would have died at a later age

@@TheSeveredTongues youre a big brain lord

pretty old for his age

@@pontikipsito46 No.

Indeed

I agree, but would also recommend the film Children of Men for an equally powerful scene. I won't spoil it and you should watch the film first, but if you don't care the scene is on KZfaq called "Miracle Cease Fire"

It is not an equally powerful scene......... I guess that particular scene reminded you of this one because it's an abandoned building during war time.

Zelina Castro Watch the movie first before making accusations for why I recommended that scene. And the fact you think I would recommend that scene only because the location is in a building and it's during a war shows that you obviously haven't seen the movie because it has nothing to do with why it's so powerful.

***** I've seen it.

Luke Faulkner hey! :)

oh my god I love your music

Luke Faulkner if not more!

Luke Faulkner oh hey its the dude who shamelessly promotes his crappy music in the comments sections of other peoples videos with the same copy pasted paragraphs, over and over again!

@@jrodriguezpiano does he ?

Thank you fpr the insight

The parts he skips are not only the more sanguine parts, but the parts that were interrupted by bombing in the very first scene of the film.

Lol actually he skips some parts cuz I bet they couldn’t fit the whole 9 minute piece into the movie 😭. And three piece from the beginning was Chopin nocturne in c# minor, not this ballade.

@@rhz1089 Sorry, you're right - not quite sure how I managed that mistake (I shall plead tiredness and complacency)! In the original memoire Władysław Szpilman said that he played the Nocturne in C# minor, not the Ballade in G minor, to Wilm Hosenfeld when he was discovered by him, so maybe that has something to do with this brain malfunction! Nevertheless, I do think there is a motif of artistic joy being excised or interrupted in the film - the bombs crash down on the radio station as Szpilman begins to play the 'happier' sounding parts of the Nocturne in C# minor in the opening, this Ballade has been truncated with the more joyful parts ommitted. Until the end of the film (when he plays the grand polonaise), the only music that is either uninterrupted or joyful is played by other people - the Nazi neighbour playing her lullaby during his hiding, Dorota practing Bach's cello suites. Even as a cafe pianist in the ghetto he is constantly being interrupted. I don't think this is all done merely incidentally because of time constraints. There is a theme woven throughout of the horrors of the war and Nazi occupation frustrating art - the Bechstein that must be sold, the violin that must be stuffed full of hidden Zlotys even if it becomes unplayable. And, of course, most obviously there is the piano which he is unable to play during hiding. I read the film as partly a meditation on art as something almost redemptive of the horrors of life and as in some sense ineradicable - that even despite the constant intrusion and dehumanisation of the Nazi atrocities, Szpilman will go on playing even if it is only in his imagination.

@@Samgurney88 God, your writing is beautiful.

yeah this scene is good, he played well but i wish the actor actually played this piece and all of it..... the most beautiful section was cut

Agamaz they prob didn’t have time to have it in the movie also It is a pretty long piece

@@TheOne-pq4ph well then that sucks

@Dave Ciccantelli Well, beyond the opening of it, to help convince the audience that Brody's playing the rest of it and not, as it was in actuality, an expert pianist as the hand model.

yes naimah.......this is mine too.....

Paganini67 the agony and the ecstasy. Life. 😘

I feel ChoPAIN

@@twilightzone1798 Shut up xD

Oh yeah it just must be so painful for the German guy....

Knowing the war was about to end, that officer probably felt regret for having participated in a monstrous machine of death and destruction. Seeing that husk of a man create magic made him realize the consequences of his actions and those of his fatherland. He would later die in a prisoner camp, reflecting on those thoughts until his last breath.

Crimson Tiger, the hardest part is getting the phrasing. With practise, the notes aren’t too bad. Just invest the time 🤷🏼‍♂️

It was Chopin his favorite composition. Its really challenging technically, it has everything in it, especially the coda is a beast. But to me as a pianist the voicing and phrasing is the hardest part of this piece. But as another pianist once said its a journey of a lifetime.

@@numberoneolive2464 yes! I’m 14, and the voicing is pretty hard,

Just mindlessly hitting keys on it should be hard. It’s invoking the perfect emotions that take years to master I think.

Song?

indeed whattttt

The adrenaline

Richter said cold hands doesn't matter once you start playing for an audience, they get warm real fast. At least for him. Sviatoslav.

='(

Playing the piano is like riding a bike. You never forget how to do it.

you never played the piano, have you? lol.

He could have just as easily said “I am... was..” about being a teacher, road worker, or scientist.

about 3 years ago, i used to be able to play fur elise, but ever since we moved, i havent touched one piano. well except for like about 1 month ago. and then when i tried to play fur elise, it didnt work. but im planning to get back into learning how to play the piano properly. I never actually knew hoe to play the piano. i just tought myself how to play fur elise. but it sounded kind of bland. i didnt put emotion into the music

Diego E. Ikr?!

Diego E. but they were poles...no?

+Anastasia Melnikova im not sure. it could be a possibility

Poles , I can assure you .

Michał Kowalski don't be stupid

And so beautiful

That was the driver waiting i think

@@JohnDoe-tw6vr still a great work by photography

The a Major of theme 2 and the coda are my fav parts to play!!!!

I would play Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2

@@mangomerkel2005I would’ve gone with Beethoven’s “Fur Elise”

I'd liked Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 1st movement

@@theretrokid1984💀

great comment my friend !

linasuperdina thank you

Yeah, the piano is important. In the original screenplay he was an expert on the kazoo, but when they did screen tests, it just didn't have the same feel.

Music is a universal art form no matter who you are.

johnnytastetest this comment had me laughing for ages

I LOVE HIM HOLY FUCK

That's actually false. People ASSOCIATE Chopin's music with nationalism because he incorporated traditional Polish music into his music during a period in which Poland was being invaded by foreign powers like Russia. In fact this so called "Chopin's nationalism" was popularly spread posthumously (after Chopin's death) by Liszt, and various Polish writers and artists in order to revitalize Polish nationalism. Chopin himself believed in "absolute music", that instrumental music needed no programme, stories, or literary inspiration to invigorate itself - that it should be able to speak for itself. Yes, the very idea of nationalism being in his music is antithetical to Chopin's own philosophy.

Milton, Chopin was very deeply patriotic Pole, coming from a patriotic family, supporting Polish cause everywhere he could, hating Russian occupiers etc. Nothing ugly or narrow-minded about it. Nobody had to "invent" this part, read something more about him before writing your noble intuitions. There is no contradiction in his Polish patriotism and universal quality of his art.

Ferenc Liszt was Hungarian not Polish

Liszt Hungarian Chopin Polish /Lengyel Magyar ket jo barat :)

what was your background back then?

It baffles me that something so beautiful could be written by one person! One of the most moving pieces of music ever!

Stop bragging, if you were such a real pianist you would have noticed that this scene in the movie was speeded. it is impossible to do that part of the song with this haste, even Vladimir Horowitz is not that quick

@@salimzenini561 Cancerous comment. How do you know if he hadn't or did? He only mentioned that he recognized the piece being played and not at which speed it was being played at. Peanut brain.

@@brandonedwards1181 i stand by your comment until you insulted me, we do not insult we argue !

@@salimzenini561 No, you started with an insult by questioning his background in piano

​ok then... but he was bragging XD

Kenny Tee Yes! Such a beautiful, insightful comment. Thank you for sharing, I remain grateful even as the realization of your words shatter my heart.

Kenny Tee Great comment!

Supiste expresar de una manera magistral la intención de la escena. Thank you for share it

thanks you just help me with my homework... kinda

Probably realised that they’re both people. During the war I wouldn’t be surprised if the nazis thought of the Jewish, polish, Lithuanian, gypsy and all the victims as not human.

I also watched in a class. 10th grade, I believe. Same effect. It was sorrowful, his playing and their expressions, and the underlying suspense of not knowing what the German was going to do once he was done playing.

Spilmann just though,I don't care if I'm gonna die now... Once I will play like I couldn't do for so long and I'll put all my pain on it... I'll give him my story...

Be Water what do you mean?

Be Water okay then..... I don't see where the Marx stuff is coming from but okay.... 😟

Be Water repeating that does not make me understand where Marxism comes into play. Also it was 8th grade, it was a mandatory course, what's the big deal? It was basically history class.

Let us make man in our image

I wondered the same thing. Perhaps his aides were in on it too?

Hhe actually played Chopin's nocturne which is quieter.

Felix Querubin No he played moonlight sonata

@@Mixomatic pretty sure he played C#m nocturne

@@sarahkraus8247 which one are you talking about? I meant the officer played moonlight sonata when the pianist went back to the attic with his tin can. He didn't really see him playing just listened to the music. That scene is just before this one.

Yessssssss

That was the point

It pained me to find out the piano is perfectly in tune in the original film😭Bc the out of tune in this video truly did set the feel of the moment

The piano, oddly, is sharp by almost a semitone. Usually when pianos go out of tune it’s because the strings loosen and therefore becomes lower pitched.

Beautifully explained

nadie éramos el puto chófer que sólamente escuchaba un piano de lejos.Yo como oservador estoy viendo tocar a Szpilman

I think he means the whole Movie and not playing the piano you don't get an Oscar for playing a piano even if it's a really impressive play

Max Walker acud

Max Walker he did win a oscar for this lol

kevin Alvarado he meant he deserved the Oscar he got

Sorry you did'nt understand me.Yes It is Just a Movie I KnowlThat.

No it cant. It would be great if it could but it is simply not true.

what?

TheCrookedPenguin majesty?

Bravo!

TheCrookedPenguin 👍

I;m in the same boat right now! stopped when I went to college and now am reinspired thanks to this movie

I am relearning piano 🎹 and learning classical music 🎶 and modern pieces.

STOP OBAMA!

+Panzer Raven unfortunate for captain wilm hosenfeld, he was sent to a war camp after ww2 and died in 1952 after seven years of hard labour. :( he deserved to live rather than be punished.

+Panzer Raven It's much, much harder to be a human, when you are expected to be a monster. Hosenfold, Franz Stigler... It's funny, they lost their war, so they are called now bad guys. So why we hear more stories about chivalrous Germans, and much less about, for example Russians?

or the firebombing of dresden or the nuking of innocent civilians in japan .

According to Wikipedia, he saved only 2 Jews, but he has also participated in killing many more Jews. He was a Nazi Captain, and you do not get such a high rank for sitting and doing nothing. He was presented as a hero in the movie, but I think that his presence in the movie, was rather linked to the fact, that most of us are somewhat empathetic, soft and humane, when it comes to dealing with certain things, especially the things that we love. He was a nasty Nazi soldier, but he helped a Jew that was in need, and Szpilman played the music that this soldier loved.

One Alexandra I mean... I'm pretty sure we an say the nazi were evil... right?

Juancho Alvarado I know I'm hungarian we were fucked the most and did even less to deserve it but still the actions of the nazis can be viewed as evil and if we decide to be understanding and try to see with their eyes instead of dehumanising them into the cartoon vilains of history we will surely find reasons why they thought they are right but in that case what's the point of even using the words good and evil ever

Try listening to von Oeyen's version

I'm glad this movie is on youtube for free. It deserves to be watched by all.

Wow, You were really lucky

Mr Szpilman...

Well actually apparently he played nocturno but the people decided on ballade in g minor because it represented his loneliness

@@HysteriaVybe yes, when i wrote that comment, i didn't know that the nocturne was played instead of ballade no 1.

Tales lmao

@@HysteriaVybe Still I think it closes well with this "fanciful" part of the movie hahahah. but I confess to be embarrassed, because a grade 6 piano conservatory student like me should know that ahaha

Tales I don’t because I just watched the movie and was in love with it and I only found this out because it was said it the upper comments

+beer patzer how can you honestly say it sucked?!?!?!

fuck you

Each to their own I guess. But I suppose opinion sometimes flirts with fiction enough to warrant a response lol. Beautiful movie in every way.

Very proud to see Alekhine as your photo

Fun fact. He did not played this ballade for german officer in real life. He played Chopin's nocturne No. 1 in C minor. It was changed in the movie.

Thank you!..I am all for historical accuracy!

Kretek why was it changed ?

I've thought I've read somewhere that it was a sonata by Beethoven

Ezequiel Stepanenko well you that article or Whatever is wrong

King Bernard A German officer uniform you mean.

The Wehrmacht wasn't affiliated with the Nazi political party. It was the German Army of the time.

Héctor D P I agree...im half Austrian and half Kiwi...both my Austrian grandparents fathers served in the war...they were forced to...it was either keep their family safe or die...

you're half fruit?

Many Germans risked their lives to save jews from their own government. Being ruled by evil forces doesn't mean that all people living inside thise regime have lost all their humanity.

I wish the best to you and your mother. It was such a horrible time that no living Jews can forget even until this day.

Absolutely! Kindest regards from Argentina.

Soviet army entered Poland on 17th of September 1939 so Hosenfeld couldn't die few months after this, as he actually died in 1952 as far as i remember.

It could be Polanski's interpretation but Hosenfeld said it himself in the movie "it's good to have faith". I believe that he's resting in Paradise now. If he doesn't deserve heaven then no one does.

God does exist...and i am sure he is with him

@@LittleBlacksheep1995 Struggle to commend even his good actions as he was in the Waffen. A truly good man would have refused to serve, and faced the consequences

A little quote:" We think that we should separate us from each other with borders and religions...but Earth doesn't look separated from space."

It has nothing to with intelligence. We have plenty of intelligence, we don't have any love. We are an arrogant, selfish species that shows no compassion. We are godless, self-worshiping, consuming parasite and it will only get worse.

+Onyx Fire Jesus loves you. He loves you so much, that he's giving you the chance to apologize to Him.

+Onyx Fire Seriously, He could easily send us to Hell right now, and give us what we deserve. But, in His mercy, He gives us the chance to repent of our sins, to return to Him, to trust we have been forgiven by Him, because of the torture and death he took for us, and then trust Him to change our hearts. And when we do that--He will give us peace in our hearts, no matter what trials we face.

Jessica Jesus can suck our cocks.

+gazmanmuuh .muhh Me either .A truly masterpiece which states a single truth:Nobody can give you what you never had, and nobody can take what is yours. And don't be upset, maybe someday you won't have any reason to cry.Greetings

+gazmanmuuh .muhh oh you're not the only one, I start crying from this scene until the end... My favorite movie, Adrien&Thomas, my favorite actors

How about over 2 millions of Soviet civilians who died in Germany as a result of forced labour? Would you go back in history and save them? 13,7 millions of Soviet civilians overall? Or at least the Janowska concentration camp orchestra, which consisted of 40 Jewish musicians from Lviv orchestras, and who were all killed while they played before they could be liberated? The German officer died, oh my. He must have come to Warsaw as a tourist, I suppose.

Alexandra Balaur how about i just go in the past and kill hitler ,stalin and chhurchill

I hope that somewhere in a parallel universe this had been done.

Churchill was the chief of the good ones, please don't put him together with psychopaths like hitler and stalin. This man had a perfectly clear view over the world's situation, that's worthy even nowadays.

+TheBimmerfan If his view was seen clear, then what man lets a famine begin under his control?

As in a lot of these comments (not yours)!

I couldnt watch this movie again

AlmondRed Lol, the actual piece is 10 minutes long and i dont think youd want to watch 10 minutes of this piece, as beautiful as it is, it gets the point across the way it is

Just to reiterate what someone else said, this officer was not a member of the Nazi party, it's an important distinction, because a Nazi would not have saved him, however much he appreciated the music, well, that's if they were capable of appreciating anything beautiful, questionable, eh?

Wahaha lol people wouldntwant to see the full 10 mins of this cos its not the main point

They cut it in a way where no happy parts of the piece are heard

bountY the part they cut out sounds too happy/triumphant to me. It’s a shame, I really like that part

That's why he didn't play it. I think, for the purposes of the film, a full 9 minute piece would have killed the dramatic flow of the scene and the film.

sAkram what?

sAkram Exactly bro! Thank you

Nail on the head. That's exactly what they did, and quite well, I must say.

the most popular vide :)

I just watched it on Netflix too. I found it very moving, glad I took the time.

I always thought that was such a nice detail, definitely helped add to the starving and hiding jew image

that actor just has huge nose lol like a beak .. but he was cool in king Kong

All credit to the Director and the Cinematographer on this movie; those minute details can be overlooked, thinking the audience won't appreciate them, but this begs to differ :)

That’s prolly just him

and sadly he's died in soviet labour camp

The prisoners built houses, if that's of any consolation for you. They built houses to replace the ones their army had previously levelled to the ground. One of my friends lives in such a house built by German prisoners. It's very quiet, I love sleeping there.

+Jorsh Jager He didn't hate, so...who cares?

This is the niceist movie i ever seе!!! I аdvise еverybody to watch it :) twitter.com/fb99d4e69bafa7667/status/795841699654213632 Chopin Bаllаde in G Minor Scеne TТTТhe Pianist

stfu

I hope your still going strong.

Thank you! I try! Hope you are!@@asinatrafanatic2697

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agreed i was dissapointed

Human Effigy parts of the song was skipped since when szpilman was actually playing it he played only half then a tank interrupted it After the war he continied the other half

Red Icarus Two different songs bro.

Yeah, I expected more from Polanski. You don't shoosh the most magnificent genius of your own country like that. Completely ruins the film for me -- the disrespect of watering down one of the most important aspects of the story.

A fantastic pianist. I could attend one of his performances in Buenos Aires (2004) Chopin Piano Concerto #2, but I guess that the best version in history belongs to Sviatoslav Richter who never cared about being recorded and chosed to record some works, never coplete editions. A master who was a friend of Sergei Prokofiev's.

Yes, an extraordinary performance of a piece whose technical challenges kept all but virtuosi from exploring its depths of emotion.

Absolutely true. And it is a "half" balade no1

Lol you have perfect pitch?

+Hansen Qin. I had. But I have lost my hearing since the first David Guetta's album...

No but if you know the piece you know it's off

i caught that too lol, i was wondering when someone was gonna call that out. i dont have perfect pitch hearing either, but i know the piece enough to know i was a lil too high