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Anyone with a good ear could likely pick out a simple Chopin nocturne with time, but I'd really like to see someone pick out his first scherzo, or the coda to the fourth ballade. That would be part of the fun, finding out just how good your ear is. The first scherzo would be extremely hard to do.
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Mozart....dead?????  Yes(!)³ 
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He's going to haunt your dreams Damon...trust me...you don't want that to happen.
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Anyone with a good ear could likely pick out a simple Chopin nocturne with time, but I'd really like to see someone pick out his first scherzo, or the coda to the fourth ballade. That would be part of the fun, finding out just how good your ear is. The first scherzo would be extremely hard to do. And the coda of the fourth ballade would be even harder, because of the sheer speed and the dense polyphony.
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..learned a classical piece, of intermediate or higher difficulty, entirely by ear? For the record, I haven't but I'm thinking about doing it for fun. Mozart has. (He famously learned Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, the setting to music of the fiftieth psalm, just by listening to it in the Sistine Chapel, and he copied it down from memory when he returned home). But I don't think this is what you had in mind? There is some interesting information about that Mozart story towards the end of this scholarly paper.
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I was really smitten with the Medtner Second Concerto the first time I heard it, and I spent some time working it out by ear while I was waiting for the score on order from Zimerman in Germany. The actual piano part turned out to be very different than the way I imagined it! Which is why, if anyone says "Yes" to the OQ, I would want to hear recorded proof of the deed. It is slightly easier to make peanut butter fudge than it is to make striped ribbon candy.
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Mozart has. (He famously learned Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, the setting to music of the fiftieth psalm, just by listening to it in the Sistine Chapel, and he copied it down from memory when he returned home). But I don't think this is what you had in mind?
Well no, because he is dead and not a member of this forum.  Mozart....dead????? Yes, according to my latest information. But I don't like discrimination, even against dead people.
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Mozart has. (He famously learned Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, the setting to music of the fiftieth psalm, just by listening to it in the Sistine Chapel, and he copied it down from memory when he returned home). But I don't think this is what you had in mind?
Well no, because he is dead and not a member of this forum. The question was: "has anyone ever ... ". My answer it seems was correct, but not what was intended. But let me not distract any further from what is a perfectly interesting opening question in this thread.
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