Is that Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor? I thought Schroeder was more of a Beethoven man.
Perhaps it took him a few years to develop his musical tastes.
I was not familiar with Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor. I just listened to it now, and enjoyed it. Thanks for recognizing it and sharing the name.
I'd never heard it until I followed your link, so thank you for posting it. I didn't recognize the piece, but used a reverse image search on just that portion of the comic that held the notes. The search came up with no exact matches, but a couple looked promising and I followed those until I found a possible name. Then, on Wikipedia I found this image. It appears to be a match, but I admit I could be wrong.
It really surprised me though that recognizable music was even used at all. He could have just thrown any complicated looking set of notes up and been done. I guess he didn't want to risk the wrath of letters from piano students everywhere
EDIT: Ha! I didn't see that in the original post that Rachmaninoff was mentioned until just now. I thought I was adding new information. I could have saved myself the bother entirely.
It's pretty fun to play too. It looks a bit daunting but the easy parts (the first few pages) are not that bad and it's easy to make sound great.
This is it! This is the moment! We were all here to see it!
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