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Jeremy Denk

@jeremydenk.bsky.social
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Pianist writer author of “every good boy does fine” nonesuch recording artist lover of many different sorts of music and New Mexican food

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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
perhaps my favorite beethoven joke of all is when he says at the beginning of the last movement of the hammerklavier “fugue with some license” haha yes, no kidding
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
every morning, i read a beethoven letter, to find one hilarious thing, and one tragic thing, and sometimes they are the same
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Some of the most perceptive and hilarious writing on music I’ve ever encountered is in the first fifth of Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ah the joys of that wonderful hall in Worcester
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
overheard: “he was as egotistical as you could get, for a violist”
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
one of the most wonderful piano lessons in recorded history is the opening of the franck quintet as played by cortot … astonishing rubato and color like entering a different spiritual zone, and climaxing with a spectacular cortot wipeout at the opening of the allegro youtu.be/tGrQRP2FOBI?...
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Franck “Piano Quintet in F minor” Alfred Cortot, 1927
YouTube video by Sadanori Kobinata
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I would love to see this opera
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
imagine how furious beethoven would be about this
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
on a grey wintry morning in new york i am getting warmth from the hilarious story of magnificent lola montez scandalizing the inauguration of the long-delayed beethoven monument by dancing on the table, with a side plot of liszt’s colossal ego
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
i really enjoyed writing this one
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
beethoven had many many great virtues but I really don’t think he was this hot
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
one of my favorite musicians in the world, what a joy it has been to work with him these last years, and to connect (in a way) back to my hungarian teachers, who we spent some time admiring together
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
my old teacher, being charming and young and handsome www.facebook.com/reel/1530112...
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12K views · 391 reactions | György Sebők in 1959 playing Hummel’s Rondo favori in E-flat Major, Op. 11, published in 1804. The piece was also recorded by Friedman, Moiseiwitsch, Cziffra, Heifetz even ...
György Sebők in 1959 playing Hummel’s Rondo favori in E-flat Major, Op. 11, published in 1804. The piece was also recorded by Friedman, Moiseiwitsch, Cziffra, Heifetz even wrote a violin arrangement…....
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
wow this is truly a work of art for our age
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Two serious musicians revisiting one of the classics
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
decent view before a day of rehearsals
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“Beethoven unites, confounds, and makes no distinction between the tragic and the comic, the agreeable and the repulsive, the heroic and the howling, the most holy and the Harlequin” (Schubert, diary, 1816)
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
don’t know why this looks so ominous
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Reading Foucault in the LAX Lyft shuttle is peak poser
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Not many airport bookstores have such a solid Foucault section
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Pretentious reading of the day
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
a lesson in overdone music writing
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Halloween sf
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
this is your occasional reminder that every musician and music-lover should own and read eta hoffmann’s life and opinions of the tomcat murr (link in thread)
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
honolulu hotel room 546 am … thinking about the history of the diminished seventh chord
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
On a groggy morning the allemande of the b flat partita felt so good
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Writing about Beethoven and fear
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
After the storm, sf
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
lol
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
i decided to take on the bach jig! you’ll be relieved to know i did not name my essay “the jig is up” (link in thread)
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Walking around gorgeous Portland Maine this afternoon is like ingesting concentrated essence of fall
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I wrote some stuff I liked about Bach and getting out of bed (link in thread)
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
i wrote about one of the most beautiful pieces i know (link in thread)
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
we had fun creating a zany ives band chorus playlist, 70 minutes of who knows what will happen!
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
still makes me happy to run into fans of the book ! i worked hard on it
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
this is so dangerous and terrible and disgusting
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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month! We're celebrating with our newly updated playlist of Nonesuch recordings by LGBTQ+ composers, performers, and allies, including k.d. lang, Magnetic Fields, Caroline Shaw, Ringdown, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mountain Man, Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, and more: nonesuch.lnk.to/Pride
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If you're going to write a bad review, you should do it in grand, slashing style ("Chernow's new biography of Twain is enormous, bland and remote--it squats over Twain's career like a McMansion" wow wow wow).
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Based on this mornings open rehearsal so far you should make every possible effort (short of committing a crime) to hear Giulio Cesare tonight at Carnegie hall
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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 02/05/2025
Hey Substackers, we posted our latest Substack with @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social, @stevereich.bsky.social, @jeremydenk.bsky.social, Randy Newman, @philharmonie.bsky.social news and more. You can read it and subscribe for free at nonesuch.substack.com/p/rhiannon-g...
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Still life: late Beethoven, coffee, sloth, capybara
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It was fun and what’s cool is a lot of the commenters seemed to grasp the existential dilemma of choosing a piano the compromises and questions
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I hate to criticize a great thinker like Edward Said, but what the f@#k is he talking about … ? op 110 is one of the most perfectly paced and designed pieces of the entire western canon
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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“This list may not reflect recent changes”
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
not many people (like Beethoven) can turn their anger issues into great art
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
honestly, this is my favorite publicity photo of all time
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
An incredibly moving thing to see mtt at his last new world concert, after all the crazy cage and wuorinen and Ives and god knows what else… conducting as his final word a simple sentimental and yet heartbreaking song of grieg
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
a classic moment rehearsing with MTT… we got to the cadenza and i asked michael if i should play it … he replied why not? do you have a bar mitzvah to go to or something?
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
i offer you a somewhat redacted postcard from erik satie
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Jeremy Denk @jeremydenk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
never try to outdrink a british orchestra at the end of a tour
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