Learn Piano with Zuzana Lenartova

Tchaikovsky’s life was turbulent and complex.

He was homosexual at a time when it could cost you everything in Russia - exile, shame, destruction. He fell in love with his own students, knowing it was something he couldn’t act on. So he did what society expected: he married. It was a disaster.

He spent his whole life at war with himself.
He died at 53. Officially, it was cholera. But even today, historians aren’t sure - it may have been su***de. We may never know.
What we do know is that all of that pain went straight into his music.

Part 8 of my Love Notes series is live on Patreon - where I explore the real love lives of the composers behind the music.

Only $5 - the price of a cup of coffee ☕

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Learning a new piece isn’t just about knowing how it should sound - it’s about knowing how to get there.

I see so many adult students stuck in the gap between vision and reality. They can hear the destination in their heads… but they don’t have the road map.

In my latest Patreon post, I share the 5 stages I teach every student - from learning the notes all the way to making the music truly yours. Each stage builds on the last, and you really can’t skip one.

(Heinrich Neuhaus, teacher of Richter and Gilels, knew this too - vision without structure is just dreaming.)

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