Fun fact: In 1832. After Franz Liszt visited Paganini's violin concert, he isolated himself, determined to writed the most virtuosic piano music possible! He studied Paganini's work and arranged it for the piano, a couple years later (In 1834), the first La Campanella was born! Still called "Grande De Fantasie Bravoure Sur La Clochette" It was 15 minutes long. Liszt refined the piece to this version in 1838, calling it "La Campanella" It was not literally banned, but when Franz Liszt realized that barely anyone was able to play it, he revised it to the version that is famous today... Funny enough, the today-famous version is still known for being "impossible"
Robin Pannenberg I’m not playing this piece, I’m just pointing out that “moving your right hand as fast as you can to make the notes seem like they are the same chord” is the same thing as arpeggiating. And even if you can play tenths, to play it as written you need to reach an 11th in the left hand and a 13th in the right hand. Your 10th hands are puny in Liszt-world lol
@@colinmurphy2214 My max hand span, would be an 11th (c-f c#-f# or a#-c etc.), but I'm not really able to use them in a fast or harsh manner, but I build them into some improvisation I did today to celebrate my 4th year as a student of the great art of playing the piano... I recorded it and it'll be uploaded soon ^_^ (It has many errors, but I don't give a ... because It was just for fun) PS: Liszt was A DAMN crazed XD
The first one to actually contain the main theme of the last movement of master Paganini's violin concerto no.2. There was an actual earlier version of the third La campanella. The second and third are the etudes. I think this is just a fantasy containing the theme. Note that this was made before those etudes.
This genuinely might be the most difficult piece ever composed and performed, (by the composer as an attempt to show his skill as a composer, which was apparently and unsurprisingly unsuccessful). However, if there's any appeal to it, it was entirely due to its difficulty and little to do with its musical worth, even for List, (a composer I actually very much adore, even if I must admit he was prone to showy virtuosity in his compositions without sufficient musical worth to justify it). Not only was Liszt at his most superficially virtuosic, but this was composed for pianos with less range and lighter touch, similar to Chopin's studies, (Horowitz himself said Chopin would never have composed his studies for the modern piano), and also similar to Alkan's Le Vent, which is impossible at the indicated tempo on modern pianos. Marc Andre-Hamelin has quite rightly criticized his piece as being empty, but it seems like he took a few measures with little change, maybe some simplification, and added it as part of his own study based on La Campanella.
liszt as u know he had two sides, that of the showman and that of the artist. this one of his showman piece. but as artist he compose something more interesting like the apparitions and even the first transcendentals, even before this.
Not really i really enjoy this la campenlla melody but yeah liszt is showy most of the time but he composed some great pieces like liebestraum 3rd movement or ungarischer romanzero no5
Joan Saniel Are you referring to Alkan? While Liszt may have said that Alkan's technique is better than his own, that doesn't mean alkan wrote harder music. In fact, I think even Alkan's harder works (op 35 & 39 etudes, concerto for solo piano) are not as difficult as Liszt's lesser known transcriptions (tanhauser, sonambula, berlioz symphony fantastique) and other works like the Clochette fantasy.
+Balog Szilárd This is harder than any alkan piece. I can play el contrabandista, and I've attempted this and its far too hard for me. I can play le preux, and this is way harder. alkan may have better technique but liszt pieces are definitely harder.
I thought that La Campanella was based of of Paganini's violin concerto no. 2 in B minor? how is this the first version if it was written between 1831-1832, and the unrevised Paganini etudes were written in 1838?
BrocookiesTRB this is not la campanella, but the melody was borrowed. La Campanella is indeed based on the final movement of Paganini's second violin concerto
'La Clochette' literally means 'La Campanella' in French. The La Campanella etude is based on the same theme as this fantasy but was composed afterwards. There are two versions of the etude, the first one was composed in 1838 and is more difficult than the second, popular revised version which was composed in 1851.
No one actually knows if he ever played it. I can understand he was able to composed this crazy piece. But didn't he just make it for us to feel helpless?
He transcribed this piece in 1832-1833, and played it in a concert a few moments after having done the piece, that was a complete fiasco, some people started to doubt of Liszt abilities A long moment after this concert (I can’t tell how long) he did again the same concert, this time people were amazed Correct me if something is wrong, I’m only telling what I read about Franciscus Liszt (was his original name, but was finally called with the latin version which is Ferenc in Hungarian, and Franz in German [not sure for « Franz » though])
What a troll piece and yet so good, still better than most composer's best pieces. Sounds as if he was improvising just for fun to show off his technique to his friends
It's meant to be arpeggiated, so you'd take the C and G with the 1 and 3, then tuck under to hit the first E with the 1 again, and the top E with the 5.
Of course . He was achild prodigy . A virtuoso who always practiced (even on a train ). Especially after seeing Paganini. His Paganini Etude No 4 (1838 version) is unplayable only he could play it in historym
Patrick Chen Kind of, There are 2 versions of La Campanella the 1st 1838 less popular version, but more difficult. And the later more popular version. But the original La Campanella is a concerto by Paganini. This has the melody in it but its really a fantasie.
Actually it is The guy who made this midi has added a few notes that weren’t in the original sheet that make the piece impossible, as far as I know nobody can reach a 17 th stretch :hyperthink:
This midi is incredibly inaccurate, missing dozens of notes, entire sections and adding a buncha random notes for no reason. This one way better. ruclips.net/video/SvcDR1l5mhA/видео.html
Larisa Lary I'm pretty sure that Franz Liszt had Marfans syndrome that may have given him very large hands. Besides he was the best pianist as Nicolo Paganini was a violinist.
Nicromantico Nicolás Carrillo Imposible de tocar, solo Franz Liszt ha sido el único que lo ha tocado y algunos pianistas, pero ellos lo hacen con errores, Franz Liszt no lo hizo con errores.
I might not know a lot about piano but this to me sounds like pressing some random keys without plan, there's no music, notes don't complement each other, its just a mess by my ear idk bout anyone else but it sounds like nothing to me :/
Liszt's "La campanella" came in a couple different forms. If you look up "Liszt Etudes d'execution transcendante d'apres paganini no 3" you'll find another version of La campanella. All of these are inspired by a violin concert by Niccolo Paganini, with the concerts name being "La campanella".
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Fun fact:
In 1832. After Franz Liszt visited Paganini's violin concert, he isolated himself, determined to writed the most virtuosic piano music possible!
He studied Paganini's work and arranged it for the piano, a couple years later (In 1834), the first La Campanella was born!
Still called "Grande De Fantasie Bravoure Sur La Clochette" It was 15 minutes long. Liszt refined the piece to this version in 1838, calling it "La Campanella"
It was not literally banned, but when Franz Liszt realized that barely anyone was able to play it, he revised it to the version that is famous today...
Funny enough, the today-famous version is still known for being "impossible"
4:03 One of the greatest anime plot twists of all time
3:48 Big N for *BIG NO*
:D Liszt was only 20-21 when he composed this...
OMG Liszt are you crazy?
Yeah but he was hacking
oh....
@@jeff-hd9og he had his piano socks on
@@kingpliar5537 14 on transcendental etudes??????????
And i wonder how much on douze etudes?
Maybe 10????
4:57 Liszt playin' jazz
Lol
Those triplet jumps at 5:30 sound amazing...
3:30 to 3:45
Dude, he said "whoever made this MIDI has added some extra octaves here and there so some parts are physically impossible to play."
0:05 This is so easy
3:47: I am a joke to you?
1:41 is deadass impossible, it's a two octave chord
@@paolo6219 as in the description, roikkeli said there some extra added octave in this midi file which make it impossible. A
Nah, that's not even close to the hardest part of the piece
@@AsrielKujo 13:30 is a lot more difficult but I still wouldn't say that it is the most difficult part of the work.
The worst it this 3:37to 3:47 played whit the weak fingers or that litle absolutely insane passage at 13:10
Boys: La Campanella
Men: La Clochette
Enough said!
... this is a version of the theme from one of Paganini’s violin concerto... and was used in another one of Liszt’s pieces...
That embrasses La Campanella
All bells are created equal
@I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH s.700i isn't hard
also are you that gottschalt was my uncle dude i feel like you changed your name XD
@I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH Omg everywhere
Oh god I can't play octaves that fast
Ludwig Van Beethoven Normally I would say just practice more, but on this one I’ll just agree
@@chrisbenna506 Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement.
Fun fact
Beethoven's hands actually bigger than Liszt's .
石英方塊 No, they aren't? Stop making non-fun facts will ya
@@henrychang5361 No, Beethoven's hands were small.
3:46 This is the power of requiem
3:47 Imagine what Lang Lang's face would look like here. XD
Haha are u referring to his playing of Liebestraum?
Gabin Dupuy Get as good as he is first lol
@Mathews196 lmao
@@ValzainLumivix omg 50 minutes ago lol
@@cislak5669 hmm yes
It is truly wonderful. I wish you could experience it.
13:32 that just scares me...
A Mess same
I got scared too
4:04 is la campanella
@I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH No, 1830
@Skeepy random a very stupid guy
Homework? Never heard of it.
OMG Liszt are you crazy?
@@demikas8943 bro chill
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO REACH THAT BIG OF A CHORD WHICH IS LIKE AN 18TH CHORD AT 1:42
YOURE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A HAND SPAN OF A 13TH CHORD
@@ezeke959 i think the syntesia is wrong nobody can play it
Omg how am I suposed to play this huge chordin the right hand at 1:41 ??
Alexander Scriabin Move your right hand as fast as you can to make the notes seem like they are in the same chord. Or you can arpeggiate.
nsmc99 that’s the same thing
@@colinmurphy2214 I can play 10th chords relatively comfortably,
so just play the chord as an arpeggio first, then the last note...
There you go ^_^
Robin Pannenberg I’m not playing this piece, I’m just pointing out that “moving your right hand as fast as you can to make the notes seem like they are the same chord” is the same thing as arpeggiating.
And even if you can play tenths, to play it as written you need to reach an 11th in the left hand and a 13th in the right hand. Your 10th hands are puny in Liszt-world lol
@@colinmurphy2214
My max hand span, would be an 11th (c-f c#-f# or a#-c etc.), but I'm not
really able to use them in a fast or harsh manner,
but I build them into some improvisation I did
today to celebrate my 4th year as a student of the great art of playing the piano... I recorded it and it'll be uploaded soon ^_^
(It has many errors, but I don't give a ... because It was just for fun)
PS: Liszt was A DAMN crazed XD
8:45 - 10:04 My favourite part :D
the same ;)
my least favorite
imo it sounds a tiny bit later like noise
@Enescu h
@Felis Skalkotris Sorabjitus this is the harder la campanella?
I don't know if there is 1 harder then this
Love the alternate version of La Campanella
The first one to actually contain the main theme of the last movement of master Paganini's violin concerto no.2. There was an actual earlier version of the third La campanella. The second and third are the etudes. I think this is just a fantasy containing the theme. Note that this was made before those etudes.
This is not an "alternate" version. This iS THE version, written by the composer at the height of his perfornance career.
La campenalla is the alternate version
This genuinely might be the most difficult piece ever composed and performed, (by the composer as an attempt to show his skill as a composer, which was apparently and unsurprisingly unsuccessful). However, if there's any appeal to it, it was entirely due to its difficulty and little to do with its musical worth, even for List, (a composer I actually very much adore, even if I must admit he was prone to showy virtuosity in his compositions without sufficient musical worth to justify it).
Not only was Liszt at his most superficially virtuosic, but this was composed for pianos with less range and lighter touch, similar to Chopin's studies, (Horowitz himself said Chopin would never have composed his studies for the modern piano), and also similar to Alkan's Le Vent, which is impossible at the indicated tempo on modern pianos.
Marc Andre-Hamelin has quite rightly criticized his piece as being empty, but it seems like he took a few measures with little change, maybe some simplification, and added it as part of his own study based on La Campanella.
liszt as u know he had two sides, that of the showman and that of the artist. this one of his showman piece. but as artist he compose something more interesting like the apparitions and even the first transcendentals, even before this.
Not really i really enjoy this la campenlla melody but yeah liszt is showy most of the time but he composed some great pieces like liebestraum 3rd movement or ungarischer romanzero no5
The B Minor Sonata alone is enough to prove that Liszt was a true artist who had immense skill for vitruosity and original, musical composition.
7:38 WTF?!
it's just because of the dumb MIDI maker
@A SEVENTH? NO? yeah
@@Liszthesis I was gonna say, if Liszt expected the pianist to be able to reach an eleventh... Lmao
@@itsdarksucks I can reach a 12th and even I can't do those tremolos in the left hand.
This transcription in particular is impossible to play and inaccurate: a few measures are missing where they should be at 8:06.
Yes
I read the sheet music
Wait that's it
yea there are some arrows after and before 8:06
Yes he said that in the description
4:04 - 6:09
Proves that liszt is genius
The beginning sounds beautiful
Not the most pleasing to the ear, but this is certainly a beast as far as technique goes. starting from 5:28 it just gets insane.
anunkans music is way harder than liszt he admitted that anunkans technique is better than his they both were collegues
Joan Saniel Are you referring to Alkan? While Liszt may have said that Alkan's technique is better than his own, that doesn't mean alkan wrote harder music. In fact, I think even Alkan's harder works (op 35 & 39 etudes, concerto for solo piano) are not as difficult as Liszt's lesser known transcriptions (tanhauser, sonambula, berlioz symphony fantastique) and other works like the Clochette fantasy.
I wouldn't even say that just because Liszt once said Alkan had a better technique it doesn't mean he really had :DD
+Balog Szilárd This is harder than any alkan piece. I can play el contrabandista, and I've attempted this and its far too hard for me. I can play le preux, and this is way harder. alkan may have better technique but liszt pieces are definitely harder.
thebenna beast I've made a mistake now I edited it.
I thought that La Campanella was based of of Paganini's violin concerto no. 2 in B minor? how is this the first version if it was written between 1831-1832, and the unrevised Paganini etudes were written in 1838?
BrocookiesTRB this is not la campanella, but the melody was borrowed. La Campanella is indeed based on the final movement of Paganini's second violin concerto
'La Clochette' literally means 'La Campanella' in French. The La Campanella etude is based on the same theme as this fantasy but was composed afterwards. There are two versions of the etude, the first one was composed in 1838 and is more difficult than the second, popular revised version which was composed in 1851.
No one actually knows if he ever played it. I can understand he was able to composed this crazy piece. But didn't he just make it for us to feel helpless?
lo lind
Drom my knowledge Liszt was one of the best Pianists
And he should have been able to play this
He transcribed this piece in 1832-1833, and played it in a concert a few moments after having done the piece, that was a complete fiasco, some people started to doubt of Liszt abilities
A long moment after this concert (I can’t tell how long) he did again the same concert, this time people were amazed
Correct me if something is wrong, I’m only telling what I read about Franciscus Liszt (was his original name, but was finally called with the latin version which is Ferenc in Hungarian, and Franz in German [not sure for « Franz » though])
Liszt practiced long, and HARD. Pretty sure he must have nailed this piece.
@@syxalite wait, they were doubting on his abilities when he played THIS?!?!? SMH
@@manuelbes they didnt like the music not his playing, they thought the composition was bad and liszt a bad composer
9:36, el contrabandista
I was.
13:32 thats sounds weird but nice
"Some parts are impossible to play." :D Some :D Sure :D
これってラ・カンパネラの華麗なる主題による大幻想曲？
What a troll piece and yet so good, still better than most composer's best pieces. Sounds as if he was improvising just for fun to show off his technique to his friends
From 4:03 to 7:39 Campanella.
Samuel Mason Campanella is much harder
+David Yunal na, this is way harder the two aren't even comparable really
+Michel Godschalck which version are you talking about?
+Michel Godschalck also I pretty sure campanella is literally the simplified version of this piece, but I could be wrong.
I can play only "La Campanella" and yes, I'm sure this is more difficult!
10:50 😍😍😍
pretty sure 3:28 is impossible
Mueller Nikolaï, Not for me.
Classical Music u going kidding u wanna stretch 2 octaves
Someone has played this, so it is possible.
Pan Tayanithi who?
rachmaninoff: hold my sheet music
1:37 ??????
Little hands
I hate when people say this is the first ever version written of La Campanella, the only thing similar is the melody!!1
There are notes before 8:06
And?
@Why i need a name? This midi isn't that great tbh. Tonnes of added octaves for no reason, several wrong notes and several missing bars.
1:42 HOW THE HECK ARE SUPPOSED TO REACH THAT BIG OF A CHORD!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
Its just another random day for a liszt player bro wht d u expect
It's meant to be arpeggiated, so you'd take the C and G with the 1 and 3, then tuck under to hit the first E with the 1 again, and the top E with the 5.
Was he drunk or ?
Cocaine.
Liszt practiced long, and HARD. Pretty sure he must have nailed this piece.
Of course . He was achild prodigy . A virtuoso who always practiced (even on a train ). Especially after seeing Paganini. His Paganini Etude No 4 (1838 version) is unplayable only he could play it in historym
@@anythingfortheday6806 No, Nikolai Petrov plays that. Look it up.
@@Santosificationable He doesn't play it at TEMPO
It's impossible at tempo only Liszt could play it at tempo.
@@anythingfortheday6806 he is 5bpm slower than its recommended tempo which is 60bpm.
@@Santosificationable Filipec plays the piece at 60bpm.
4:05 is it la Campanella?
Eduardo Freitas yes, same melody but another version
Patrick Chen Kind of, There are 2 versions of La Campanella the 1st 1838 less popular version, but more difficult. And the later more popular version. But the original La Campanella is a concerto by Paganini. This has the melody in it but its really a fantasie.
MagnusTheRed Wait so is this the harder one, or is it the easier one?
JackStrait This is harder than both versions of la campanella
This is the first version of LA Campanella but Franz didn't like too much, so he tried to make it better.
2:20 These should be F's not F#'s
There are a lot of similar wrong notes
A lot is a bloody under statement.
Close to 4:00 there is so paganini
4:27 that is literally impossible what
I love how alot of this midi is impossible
blame Pepperdine lol
...and now back to my homework.
You guys let me ask you a question, is it harder to play this piece perfectly or 12 transcendental etudes perfectly back to back?
probably this piece
it's pretty difficult but transcendental etudes are also hard
sounds like liszt improvising. too adhd for me lol.
Impossible to play :)
This particular midi is physically impossible, but the actual piece is not
Actually it is
The guy who made this midi has added a few notes that weren’t in the original sheet that make the piece impossible, as far as I
know nobody can reach a 17 th stretch :hyperthink:
There are some good performance by human in RUclips :)
3:02
Mind sharing where you found the midi? Thanks
www.classicalarchives.com/midi/composer/2906.html
@Mathews196 indeed
This mid can be found on the Classical Archives website. There's a better one somewhere tho, can't remember where exactly.
8:10 ? I'm sure it's Arpeggio.
That's the ossia, the main stave is arpeggios.
@@thenotsookayguy really? good information thx
Алькан и Меро: на этом наши полномочия всё
5:24,6:13,7:26,9:50,4:04 la campanella (1838v)?
The whole piece is a set of variations with introduction on the theme from Paganini’s violin concerto la Campanella.
Hello sir , please can you give me this midi link ?
Thanks you.
La campallena older sis
Original
@A SEVENTH? NO? hiii!
La campanella's drunk uncle.
this piece is basically a black midi💀
how do u play 4:27 with two hands its 3 octave
4:04 la Campenella?
all done with one hand?
Na, you use two hands, left hand for natural notes/white keys and your right hand for sharps/flats/black keys
noice
8:04 idir?
la campanella beta testing
4:04 la Campanella
9:36 sounds familiar to me.....
@A SEVENTH? NO? YESSSSSSSS
@A SEVENTH? NO? SAME
4:28 is not possible
This midi is incredibly inaccurate, missing dozens of notes, entire sections and adding a buncha random notes for no reason.
This one way better.
ruclips.net/video/SvcDR1l5mhA/видео.html
7:39 / 8:43 / 10:18
Link? DX
www.classicalarchives.com/midi/composer/2906.html
This doesn't even sound like a composition before the part where it sounded like la campanella
4:27 wtf
@A SEVENTH? NO? Fat
@@thenotsookayguy It's obviously an error, Liszt and Rach could reach a 13th, and those are 15ths.
4:27
*what the heck*
did he play it ? probably.... maybe it was a piano double `? these are the questions....
From 0:01 to 3:06 easy not bad an then.... OMFG HOW A MAN WITH 60 YEARS OLD CAN PLAY THIS FUCKING AWESOME SONG AND IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOO HARD?
Larisa Lary The song isn't the only thing that's hard right now.
True
Rented Mule that's what he or she said
Larisa Lary I'm pretty sure that Franz Liszt had Marfans syndrome that may have given him very large hands. Besides he was the best pianist as Nicolo Paganini was a violinist.
You mean 20-21 years
he had 6 fingers?
Ramer Davey T. Lee lol
StasOnSpb He had ten.
unbelievable
StasOnSpb Pretty much eveyone has ten fingers ._.
lol
Decent piece but garbage midi.
Easy
ling ling can play 4:04
Lolz XD
2019?
Here lol😂
good boys ฅ^•ω•^ฅ
2029
que onda con esta verga?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿??¿¿?¡'
Nicromantico Nicolás Carrillo Imposible de tocar, solo Franz Liszt ha sido el único que lo ha tocado y algunos pianistas, pero ellos lo hacen con errores, Franz Liszt no lo hizo con errores.
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I might not know a lot about piano but this to me sounds like pressing some random keys without plan, there's no music, notes don't complement each other, its just a mess by my ear idk bout anyone else but it sounds like nothing to me :/
Kek, I love the section before the ending tho. Also blame the midi maker for messing this up.
La campanella????
Liszt's "La campanella" came in a couple different forms. If you look up "Liszt Etudes d'execution transcendante d'apres paganini no 3" you'll find another version of La campanella. All of these are inspired by a violin concert by Niccolo Paganini, with the concerts name being "La campanella".
That’s a fake
meh, thats not really music
Phil Lach and you're not a human.
Nick Willon maybe its the audio quality but it doesn't sound good
Nice Troll
Liszt never claimed he wrote music. Pure technique and showmanship were his creed.
Phil Lach In my Opinion this sounds like trash, But you will have to listen to real humans performing it And it sounds like real music!
5:30
5:30
9:34
9:46