What does music mean to you?

“You don’t become a musician because you can but you become a musician because you cannot without” what a great distinguishing fact!

Daniel Barenboim best Beethoven interpreter in my opinion

as a composer one of the things i love most about music is the simple fact that creating a new melody almost seems like introducing a new flower, or tree or animal onto the planet that no one has ever seen or experienced before - of course abstract painters and sculptors broke the bounds of expressing reality in a representational way, i think, precisely to enjoy this same kind of creativity - at any rate, all life is art as all good living comes from a creative place - for example, almost everyone can identify with the experience of having a wonderful conversation with a good friend where neither person is aware where the conversation is going or what topics will arise or who will talk less or more than the other - but it all flows beautifully because it is simply allowed to happen and create itself - the so-called 'artist' is engaged in the same kind of 'dance' with life - and ultimately it is really about the 'dance' with oneself - therein lies true wisdom

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

Smartness and humility. Winning combo

Barenboim is a treasure for the whole mankind.

Gracias Maestro Daniel por tener a tan gran Actor ! Saludos desde 🇦🇷 Argentina

How wonderful to discover this channel. Thank you Maestro!

As a pianist, aficionado of these two fine artists and a lover of a good philosophical conversation, I'm gonna go out and say it: The conversations between these two are more complex than a nuclear power plant wiring system. I even dare to say it doesn't make sense most of the time or go somewhere in a meaningful way, but by leaving my conscious plane, it sounds like music to me. Which means I have arrived at the theme of this conversation, pondering what does music mean to me.

Interesting interview. Love it when different profession respect each others like this.

Thank you, Maestro. These days I feel like I’m witnessing the end of all arts, not just performing arts ( stage arts) but altogether. Today’s kids are exposed to the world much earlier than ever. Before they enjoy fully “to be a kids”, they have to see things we use to experience in our adult life. We all benefit from this pandemic, for example to be able to hear your performance online, at the same time “free or charged webinar” everywhere where people talk about things like we used to have conversations with our friends or even someone who at the next table at the coffee shop. Metropolitan museum might have to sell their own collection to finance themselves ( it hasn’t finalized yet) . I’ve already seen some concert hall in Europe sold their own arts in the hall to pay their employees. On the other hand, we already know “ who “ made billions on this pandemic. It is crazy. If we replace “music” to “life” in your question, we can see your point really clearly. SNS became new monotheism.....

I didn't understand anything from all of this, but this topic is important

Web connection is giving us the huge opportunity to let them our most beloved celebrities how much we care, how much they mean to us and ... it's a very classical feeling, making smart promotion, those who need to discover the classical music from now on, because... it's worthy, big loving hug Maestro Barenboim, never stop believe in, you are doing a great job indeed

What a pleasant surprise to better my day!

"Music is the melody whose text is the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

Cannot live without.

I would like to be able to speak or write to Mr. Barenboim just for a second or two just to tell him that his interpretation on CD of the Bach 48 Peeludes and Fugues is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. I had the good fortune to hear him play live several times in London, indescribably wonderful experiences: Schumann, Beethoiven Sonatas more meaningful than ever -one felt the relationship between the movements and every trill had a real significance.. I thought I didn't like Liszt but he converted me with Liszt's big Sonata. Once when I went backstage he was very rude to me. He was alone speaking to a woman who was a friend. I asked him whether he intended to record the Schumann Sonatas and he replied with a forceful NO which also dismissed me from his presence. Of course I have forgiven him. The Schumann Sonatas contain some of the most beautiful music written for the piano, unique, miraculous works.

¡¡Bravo Daniel !! ¡¡ De ❤ muchísimas gracias Sr. Daniel Barenboim por tan simples y bellas palabras sobre el significado de la Música !! Hermosa su frase: "You don't become a musician because you can, but you become a musician because you can not without". Cuando un piano y un pianista, cuando un músico y la música 🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶 se unen en un sólo alma eso pasa... ❤🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶... magia..., es difícil describirlo con palabras ... es sentimiento puro... ¡¡ Muchísimas gracias también por todas sus interpretaciones !! Desde Buenos Aires, ¡¡ Qué Dios lo bendiga con muy buena salud !! 👍💯💯💯💯💯👏👏👏🎶🎵🎶🎶❤🎶🎵🎶👏👏👏👏💐🌹🌸💮🏵🌹🌸💮🏵💐🍀🍀🍀🍀🤗

You don't need to know facts. Just listen intently and the music will do something to you, whether you like it or not. If you don't like it, it has affected you, if you do like it, it has done more than that!

Passion? Depth and intense. It must carry the spirit through performance.

People become musicians not because they can, but because they must.

Name a more iconic duo, I will wait. He should have played some waltzes though.

fan of both

The thing is that the “meaning “ of music , it will only be explained with music itself, not in words.

Dear Maestro Daniel (from Buenos Aires) I agreed with you, I think was Stravinsky who said “Music must be seen “. Perhaps in that moments are what the “meaning “ comes to us.

Mr. Waltz is quite wrong about non-expert listeners being ignorant and knowing nothing. During my childhood so-called classical music did not exist and was disliked. On my own I, aged ten to twelve, discovered a bottom drawer with records my grandfather left.. I started listening and loving this music ever mnore. I played it to friends and said listen to what happens here and here. I had a long way to go but I knew something and that something eas important, eternal. At first I played the records of Schubert's piano Trio in B falt in any order, than I realised there was an order and a relatioship between the movements. That first experience has remained with me forever even after I studied music Unforgettable the ineffable simple beauty of the second theme in the first movement, not to mention the slow movement.

invitation to beauty & mystery of existence

Music - which is just a name at the end of the day - means everything. It seems to transcend everything else. We have musical theory, which helps us to understand, write and perform music to some extent but it is nontheless just theory. Music can not fully be explained away by science. It suggests something more, something greater as it can express what can be spoken or written or shown. However, you can not capture what music expresses in writing, speech or visuals.

Wonderful.

Music means transcending oneself

Music most fundamentally is any sort of arranged sounds in time. To ascribe "meaning" to it is rather pointless, it just is what it is. The only reason it's to tempting to talk about "meaning" in it is because music can include A. SINGING with WORDS, which takes it completely outside the realm of just "arranged sounds" and can then relate to nothing BUT "meanings" and their relation to things, B. Singing and the relationship with our natural linguistic tendencies and relatively universal sounds associated with all the various states of being (happy sad excited romantic playful funny fearful stressful nervousness expressing pain or joy etc etc etc) and C. the fact that music is intertwined with other media and potentially any particular moment or activity in people's lives, particularly movies and television, that do in fact ascribe direct objective meanings to music based on what the meaning of the thing it is associated with or associated with to you

Hallo. Schönen Abend ihr beiden. This was very cool. I have been listening to quite a bit of symphony again and been loving it. Especially some Bruckner, Chopin and also some Mahler. Music means a whole lot, and I could come up with my own words, but I thought, like it or not, I would paraphrase what I once heard from Celibidache -- "The goal of music is not necessarily to be beautiful. It is, however, the ultimate truth." That is something like Bruckner's music. It is somewhat God-like because it represents sort of what is inhuman; not down-to-earth, instead of the more human qualities of a Chopin, Beethoven or Mahler. That is what makes Bruckner's music, for example, almost quite revelatory in ways.

What does music mean to me? A dream never to be reached! Yet, I like to listen to it. My consolation is that the big Freud was atone also.

Where can I find part 2 of this conversation ? But Barenboim says much more when he plays music than when he talks about it.

Thank you thank you!!!

Bravo!

Everyone is hating on Christoph but I think not everyone understands what he meant. We are seeing a musician and an actor talk about their approaches to music. Of course the musician will give a point of view in which music is different, rare, unique and changeable depending on the context and situation, and thus you learn different things even if you play the same piece over and over again. And you learn even more if you ignore routine and attach yourself to the abstract part of music, which has millions of combinations and words and notes and rythms and intentions. On the other side, what I think Waltz meant is that, when you work in films, theatre or any other dramatic art, music is neccesary, even if you don't know anything about it theorically, because it can help to express the feeling, situation or mood of the scene or film it is included in, or it can even help predict events that will occur.

Fantastic!!!

hello Daniel, very well said.

This is one of those rare cases where you press "Like" before the video starts.

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I appreciate both gentlemen extremely and I have also observed their art, but please, hopefully the following parts are less monologue. In the end, Christoph Waltz got to the point, which I have been thinking about for myself for a very long time. The childlike innocence - I am now 54 - with which I began to love classical music and especially Beethoven as much as one can love from the age of 13, tears flowed when listening to his pieces and exuberant, overwhelming deep feelings came to light, the imagination a deep understanding with a devotion like a Werther shortly before his suicide, I miss this “carefree” depth of emotions today sometimes. And it was, just as Mr. Waltz put it, innocent and certainly still “little” knowing at the time, but therefore not less intense or less valuable, just a child with his enthusiasm. The extensive knowledge about and dealing with a piece can, like a poem in school, detach it from its magic when it is discussed. Like a piece that you have to listen to all the time in the chocolate or mobile phone advertising, something like that should actually be forbidden to protect the music and our person. I am probably a very typical Libra, if you can believe the zodiac sign here in the basic character. Greetings from Bonn, Germany.

Love him!!!

Golden Words

❤️ thank you

Hola Maestro Baremboin me daría un consejo para memorizar las obras. Solo me gussta tocar el Piano y lo disfruto mucho. Agradecería su Respuesta lo admiro mucho y le tengo gran cariño s pesar que no le conosco. Creo que el universo nos conecta a todos De una forma o otra todo esto es muy extraño.

(FACTS OVA FEELINGS). MUSIC IS WATT TELLS US THA THE HUEMAN RACE IS GREATER THAN WEE REAL-EYE

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the arch enemy of music is routine 🤯

YOU SHOULD MAKE A VIDEO ON THE PERSON THAT IS RELATED TO FRANZ LIST. HIS NAME IS MICHAEL ANDREAS.

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The arch enemy of *life* is routine

More significantly we live in the Covid period, rather than 1771+250. And of course music exists elsewhere, eg in our minds. We are one of him, he one of us - yes. Along with the spiritual base.

The intro and outro piece names should be in the description :)

Daniel Barenboim what did you mean by musics arch enemy is routine????

One thing I really don't like about this is that Daniel Barenboim acts as though he's giving facts when he is really just talking philosophy. There are many different kinds of music, and if one is being honest, most musicians cannot make a living off of music, so it isn't really a "privilege". As someone who got an undergraduate degree in music, I play a lot of music in community ensembles and at home alone in the form of etudes, but I don't make enough money with it to pay for even 1/3 of my rent, and I live in relatively cheap housing (rent is $1,020/month). The money I do make in music comes from being in an Army National Guard band. I am just about to pursue a second career in cyber security by going back to college for a second undergraduate degree in computer science, and then a Masters in cyber security. I feel that music has given me nothing but personal growth. It is not an ideal career choice for the majority of musicians that cannot make a decent living in it. Daniel Barenboim is the exception, not the norm.

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NEGLECT THE BOIM AND ITS DISSIDENT PRECEPTS

What is the intro piece?

Music is exploration of our unconscious psyche.

Or does.

hello pradas

What is Waltz doing there? Barenboim could as well have had a monologue or a podcast for himself talking about music

Familiarity blinds.

I find this conversation fascinating ...not for the reasons one might suppose. Were listening to two educated men discuss a subject which in the case of the maestro is the substance of his professional life...and yet the observations are soooo dreadfully narcissistic and frankly uninsightful. If music must be heard live...poor Ludwig apparently never really appreciated music or....whatever. Right now...in my head I can hear Edvard Grieg's piano concerto...in my head...sans Daniel. No orchestra...not live...it is bona fide stupidity to make the claims that are made. They are only the vacuous assumptions of a technocrat. Music exists independent, apart and independent of musicians in a music hall. It has an exist that is in the truest sense eternal and substantive...without the accidens of batons, or cadences or slurs...Danny you somehow think that Rembrandt is just brush strokes on a particular canvas at a particular moment and place. Wow. So freaking stupid.

In spanish please 🤷🏼‍♂️

I'm quite frankly not impressed by the non sequiturs of Christoph Waltz. Much of what he says is meant to sound intellectual without being so. It's the artifice of the actor that is being constructed here. Waltz is twisting himself into verbal knots and Barenboim is composed and logical.

Hans Landa and a Jewish...

@Daniel Barenboim : please hear my french canadien supplications : Quelle plus beau chant du cygne pourriez vous chanter que la sonate de Julius Reubke? Pourquoi ne pas tout abandonner de la vie publique et vous vouer corps et âme pour une utilme dédicace à cette génération? Je me place devant vous les genoux au sol, en ces temps de confusion et d'aliénation générationnel... Je vous ai connu par mon père qui avait de vos enregistrements de Schubert dans les années 70, mais tout cela est derrière nous. La sonate de Reubke synthétise une expression ultime de l'oppression que subissent nos contemporains dans ce monde superficielle. Si Wagner à été perçu comme le chant du cygne de la décadence occidentale, Reubke ne demande qu'à être interprété par un maître de Beethoven tel que vous. Je m'humilie à l'extrême à vous supplier de vous plonger dans le texte de cette sonate. Ne serait-ce pas l'œuvre la plus abilité pour vous, à transmettre un dernier cri, un chant d'alarme pour les âmes qui sont victimes de l'abrutissement générationnelle? Je ne suis qu'un enfant de 47ans ayant un père né en 1931, et qui se meurt de voir notre cilivisation sécher dans le marasme du consumérisme. Monsieur Barenboim, considérez, malgré votre âge, de donner au monde cette sonate. Votre Tristan und Isolde de 1995 fut un moment historique pour porter jusqu'à nous le génie du 19eme siècle. Lisez le texte de la sonate de Reubke, je vous en supplie. Pour le reste et les raisons du pourquoi je vous supplie à ce point... Lisez le texte, je n'ai pas d'autres mots. C'est pour l'amour de la vie, c'est plus que la fatalité wagnériennes, je vous propose votre lègue ultime. Un chant du cygne ultime. Je suis un simple père de 6 enfants, québécois. Paix à vous. frederic.pageau@yahoo.com (bien que je ne désire rien pour moi-même, voici mon adresse, pour prouver l'authenticité de ma suplication)

yikes, he must of been nervous talking to the jew hunter...

I'm not particularly impressed by this Waltz guy. Rather Barenboim talk to other musicians or intellectuals in other fields.

Worse still, career

Barenboim is full of himself. I wonder if he was poor and didn’t go to school what kind of hobo he would have ended up being.

Barenboim eloquent, intelegent and interesting. Waltz just trying too hard to look and sound smart. Acting will not help you with this one boy

Nonsense, why does the listener know nothing! This is the inverse of the Ashkenazy interview. Fasle dichotomy, expert expertise.