Research On Musical Style And Performance Of Piano Concerto No.2 By Saint-Saens

This paper focuses on French composor Camille Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No.2,mainly studying the style of this composition and probing into its performance in different aspects. Based on sincere analysis the paper writer firstly discusses the technical performance of this composition, then its style, therefore providing effective techiniques to perform this typical concerto. In order to comprehend its style deeply, the paper writer also analyzes different recorded versions of this concerto performed by different pianists, thus giving some help for us to study both its musical and performance style thoroughly.There are four parts in this paper.The first part discusses Saint-Saens's life and the four phrases of his musical career to show the influences of his experiences and changes in life on his ideas and style of his career.The second part carefully analyses the concerto in order to grasp its style and characteristics of Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No.2.The third part further studys concrete performance style and emphases of this concerto in order to grasp its style in performance and therefore to show the original concerto in great extent.The fourth part studys the individual performances of this concerto through different recorded performance versions, comparing the performance style of different pianists including their technical characteristics, aesthetic value, artistic treatment in order to guide our research, performance and teaching, and to improve our ability in artistic appreciation.