Not a "minor mistake." Clara Schumann was an important musician who later influenced Brahms in a big way. Clara and Robert's marriage was a legend in its time
Liszt composed 12 etudes, called the "Douze Grandes Etudes". Those however, were too hard, so he ended up simplifying them so that they can be playable, and he called them the *Transcendental* Etudes. That's why none of the transcendental etudes should be here.
I believe that Liszt did that many times ! As other couldn't play ! He wrote a piece that nobody could play but him ! And it's been remained that way to this day & age , but a computer ! I don't know why she didn't talk about that here ! And many questionable choices & misquoting Clara as a sister not a wife so on...take her credibility away .
How about Liszt's Douze Grandes Etudes (S.137), which are much more difficult than the Transcendental Etudes. In fact, only with the exception of no.4, all the other 11 transcendental etudes are simplifications from the Douze Grandes Etudes. Many Liszt's opera transcriptions are also dreadfully long and notoriously difficult. Moreover, many Liszt's early pieces, like El Contrabandista and Grande Fantasie de bravoure sur La Clochette, are almost impossible to play at original tempo. Anyway, thank you for this great video.
Daniel T I wouldn't say they are the most difficult due to their relatively shorter length, but I would say they are much more difficult than all the Transcendental Etudes.
I would love to see the sheet music during the examples of the pieces.... many things can sound difficult but are quite manageable... the sheet music would show just how hard they truly are.
Totentanz won't affect funny girls you know. It conveys the sense of life in many sorrowful ways, which Liszt only was the best at translating. It is RAGE against... It's a total horror and a bless at the same time. And, whoever wrote that, it is not a freaking conCERTO, IT IS THE SYMPHONY OF DEATH (orchestra-wise).
@@calebhu6383, not on all of it, because she was wrong about most people not liking "Sonata in B minor". However, she's right about "Fuex Follets" being one of his most difficult pieces.
@@calebhu6383, yes, I did look something else up and read that after posting my earlier comment. Just so I get my facts straight, alot more people started loving the sonata around the end of the 1800s, start of the 1900s?
Great video! Liszt’s Sonata (aka Grande Sonate) was completed in 1853, though he had been working on its composition for quite some time (years). It was published in 1854.
Un Sospiro should be here. One of the most beautiful etudes ever written. Played the B minor sonata - it isn't that tricky just a marathon... and then there is that passage octaves three pages from the end that makes one concentrate a fair bit! Thank you for sharing!
True. Dante Sonata is not too hard compared with other things in Liszt's repertoire. It's actually 'easy' if you compare it with some opera paraphrases, transcendental etudes etc. Also Rigoletto LOLOL, I played it for my A-levels with 17.
True. The Symphonic Transcriptions some of the big Reminisces are more difficult. But Feux Follets is among the most difficult for its length . But it fails to compare with some of Liszt’s bigger works
Thank you so much for including Mazeppa. I feel I’d it to be quite under appreciated yet it is my favorite performance piece is definitely deserves a spot as one of the hardest pieces to play
@@ajaysandhu4670 , I bet it was jealousy. Sonata in B minor really has some amazing beautiful parts in it. Maybe the piece being so long was why there were some people who didn't like it as much. However, there were people who enjoyed sitting through concertos which were longer, so that's not it. There are a couple of sort of sleepy parts to Sonata in B minor around the middle of the piece, but the fabulous, exciting, and beautiful parts take up alot more of the piece than the couple of little sleepy parts. It is overall an amazing work of piano music
Wilde Jagd, Appassionata, and the Rigoletto Paraphrase are nowhere near Liszt's most difficult works. Neither is the Dante Sonata, really. How much research goes into these videos?
Wilde jagd and appasionata?? Are you joking? They are only warm up pieces of Liszt How about Paganini etude 3,4,6 (1838) Reminiscences de Norma,la clochette and don juan
The hardest Liszt pieces are his transcriptions and later work, His transcriptions of all the Beethoven symphonies (over 4 hours of music) are far more difficult than any of the etudes, his Don Juan piece, el contrabandista, his Rossini, Schubert, and Wagner transcriptions etc... are are also incredibly difficult, off the grading scale basically. For some reason everyone leaves these off the list of his most difficult.His etudes are meant to prepare pianists to play works like the transcriptions. Things like La Campanella, chasse neige, and even HR2 are nothing compared to things like his 4th movement of the 9th symphony transcription. His most famous transcription of Ave Maria is written across 3 staves and is one of the most difficult shorter pieces. They're also the best musically imo.
- Liszt Douze Grandes Etudes S. 137 - Etudes S. 140 - Rondo Fantastique El Contrabandista - Grande Fantasie de bravoure sur La Clochette - Reminiscences de Don Juan - Grande Fantasia da Concerto su Temi Spagnoli Those are all probably more difficult than some pieces mentioned in your list that could be replaced with these. Also, I would argue that the 10th transcendental etude (if that is we are talking transcendental etudes not grandes etudes) is among the easier of the set.
In what ways would you say Appassionata is harder than Mazeppa? Having played them, there really isn't a single very striking technique to outshine the difficulty of Mazeppa.
iCST Mazeppa is easier for me, because it is mostly just banging the keyboard with chords and octaves except that blind octaves passage and b-major section and those are the things i can play very well. Going back to the 10th...idk, it's just how it is Edit. I haven't learned any of transcendentals fully, but only "tried" them, so it may be the reason why i'm saying something like this
Excluding multi-movement works, I believe Liszt's technically hardest piece is his etude no. 4, S. 140. This etude is harder than perhaps any etude even Alkan composed. Another contender is his Great Spanish Fantasy, an uncommon work of astounding difficulty 15-20 minutes long. Both pieces are far more difficult than El contrabandista or Feux follets.
I really love your videos especially the ones that focus on the easiest and hardest works from composers compositions for solo piano, but I would really love to get a video about Scarlatti
Wasn't Reminiscences de Don Juan insanely difficult as well? (I also really like Reminiscences de Norma, but I don't know if it's as difficult). Also, Wieck and Brahms were so wrong about the b minor sonata!
@@samuelrappaport6162 , the wide jumps are what make La Campanella so challenging, the wide jumps are about good hand/eye coordination, which not everyone, including me, have. If la Campanella is a bit easier for you, than you have good coordination. Mine isn't so great though. Mephisto waltz has a part with some challenging wide jumping too.
@@yes7234 it's s 140(études d'execution transcendente d'apres paganini) version could be one of the hardest. Even then however, the 4b of that set is harder
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An interesting fact which you did not mention is the meaning behind the name Transcendental Etudes. They were so named because each of the 12 etudes is progressively more difficult than the previous one. In other words each etude transcends the previous etude in technical difficulty.
I don't understand what you are saying with your comment. I have never attempted to play these etudes myself so I am not speaking from personal experience. Further, I don't know who it was that applied the moniker "Transcendental" to this set of 12 etudes by Liszt. It may have been Liszt himself or it may have been applied by someone else. But I read an article about Liszt and it mentions the Transcendental Etudes and goes on to say just what I said in my original post, i.e. the name "Transcendental" was meant to describe the technical difficulty of playing all 12. The technical difficulty of each etude transcends or is more technically difficult than the previous one. Whether every person who has played all 12 would agree with that description taking each etude in sequence, I have no idea.
Douglas Larson It was Liszt who named the etudes "études d'Exécution transcendante", or etudes in transcendental difficulty in english(i could spell something wrong). I haven't of course played any of the etudes , but i have tried literally every of them and evem attempted to learn nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 (i was too lazy to finish any of them, except feux follets and appassionata, as they are insane). And referring to my last comment, the 3rd one is the easiest of all transcendentals and comparable to Chopin's easier preludes and nocturnes and comes after the short but apparently harder preludio and even more harder allegro molto(may be wrong about the name/tempo), and then...well nothing in the set is harder than no. 5, so your theory isn't the smartest one
This video was about Liszt's hardest works. There are some works by other composers with even tougher works than any of Liszt's. Stravinsky's Firebird, Rachmaninoff's Concerto no. 3, Alkan's Concerto for solo piano, and Schumann's Toccata in C major are some of the hardest piano pieces ever. And, there are a few very difficult Liszt pieces not mentioned in this video; La Campanella, Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, several of his Paganini Etudes, and Mephisto waltz. Liszt's Trans. Etudes Fuex Follets and Mazeppa are one of his hardest though
@@alvexok5523 Liszt wrote a piece that nobody could play but him & hasn't been plaid by anybody but a computer to this date ! Many don't know this fact !
@@alvexok5523 ruclips.net/video/A-TwL2BVcH0/видео.html And I believe Grand Etude De Paganini S 141 No3 G sharp minor La Campanella . I've been trying so hard to retrive the video I watched a while ago for you & another person asking me ! But , unfortunately I can't find it ! Ugh !!! Some dare to say that Liszt never indicated the tempos as even he was not able to play them himself !!!??? LOLLOLLOL Liszt was the greatest pianist/ composer in the history & people , so many many of them witnessed it ( his breathtaking out of this world speedy performances ) & they talked !!! Also Liszt was not a dumb or delusional person to write pieces that he couldn't play at the speed he intended ! That's SO SILLY !!! I know many are still jealous ! Many can't simply believe such a phenomenal human being exists/ existed ! I feel bad for Liszt ! Galileo ( he said the earth was round & spinning itself & then stoned to death by idiots ! ). Liszt probably intentionally didn't write the tempos as he truly wanted others to play w/ o too much stresses or intimidations ! As he was very generous to his peers & pupils !
@@spark_6710, I believe that Liszt was a phenomenal being. He could play difficult works at speeds that most have never been able to do. And, I have read how Liszt didn't always perform his pieces the way they're written while he performed, he embellished parts and added extras to it making them even more complex and exciting sounding. The La Campanella Paginini that you mentioned, I think I've seen that video, where it's played extra fast and many commenters were saying that it was sped up by computer. Liszt may've really been able to play it just as fast as in that video himself
What about El Contrabandista? Valentina Listista said herself that it is one of the most impossible piece to play and it is also said that Listz himself failed at a live performance trying to play it.
Niccolo Paganini She does know what she's talking about, Liszt failed to make it popular, not to play it and if anyone knows Liszt, it's Lisitsa. She simply loves to include such confusing statements She states it to be the single most impossible piece she has encountered, which is really something considering everything she has played. Btw, Liszt has one Paganini Etude that NO ONE is able to perform in Tempo. So, would Liszt be the exception?
James Hakai The one to know Liszt is Leslie Howard, this guy recorded literally EVERY Liszt piece and explained sonata in b minor with every detail. I weren't talking only about s. 140 no. 4b, but some of his transcriptions, paraphrases, reminiscense(i probably fckd to spell this one) and other pieces i forgot to mention, because i don't remember them
I'd personally say No. 6 of that set is more difficult since it focuses on many other difficulties. Also, the both of them don't have any tempo markings.
Also: you shouldn’t have the transcendentals: you should have the douze grandes which were the originals and are far harder than any piece on this list.
Whoopsie on Clara. 😉🧡 Liszt never understood the art of writing compositions that are easy to play. 😂😂😂😂😂 He TRIED with his beautiful Consolations at least. 🤗
Feux-Follets is not "really fast" or should not be; it is marked allegretto. Pianists like Frederic Lamonde who was taught by Liszt or Claudio Arrau who was taught by a student of Liszt play the study allegretto as marked and are able to find more musical expression.
TimeAndChance only some movements are truly difficult technically, and some of the slow movements are perfectly manageable. However doing them musical justice is a very significant challenge
I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH a whole plethora of things, including but not limited to, repeating tenths, stretches larger than tenths, 2+ octave leaps, the iconic chord arpeggios things (i don't know there real name).
I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH even though that no.4 has no real tempo marking, playing it at 1bpm would be cheating, so it would be safe to assume that the closer you are to caprice no.1, the more legit a run would be, even then no.4B is still not that much easier at the lower speed that the performances are at.
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Clara is Robert Schumann's wife, not sister. You mixed them up with Mendelssohn.
His sister?,..... what......?
A C she doesnt know what she is talking about. She is fake.
@@asdfasdf-gm5uk dude it was a minor mistake alright we all make them from time to time. Your not perfect either.
Not a "minor mistake." Clara Schumann was an important musician who later influenced Brahms in a big way. Clara and Robert's marriage was a legend in its time
Non of her compositions were as trascendental so relax, it’s just a mistake
10:42 Last but not Liszt!
No
6:57 And the cat magically becomes a pencil case.
colorful :-D
@@Schlagwerker1988 That might be the spell! 😲
@@astrotsiga it´s transcendental-hahaha
Now We are only missing Alkan edition XD
Oh god
and amédée Méreaux :P
@@iwatchmostlymathvideos yup
All of them
@@iwatchmostlymathvideos Alkan Hard then Mereaux
Liszt composed 12 etudes, called the "Douze Grandes Etudes". Those however, were too hard, so he ended up simplifying them so that they can be playable, and he called them the *Transcendental* Etudes. That's why none of the transcendental etudes should be here.
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I believe that Liszt did that many times ! As other couldn't play ! He wrote a piece that nobody could play but him ! And it's been remained that way to this day & age , but a computer ! I don't know why she didn't talk about that here ! And many questionable choices & misquoting Clara as a sister not a wife so on...take her credibility away .
source?
@@heartresist9734 I don't remember lmao you're a few years late
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Clara Schumann was the wife of Robert Schumann.
How about Liszt's Douze Grandes Etudes (S.137), which are much more difficult than the Transcendental Etudes. In fact, only with the exception of no.4, all the other 11 transcendental etudes are simplifications from the Douze Grandes Etudes. Many Liszt's opera transcriptions are also dreadfully long and notoriously difficult. Moreover, many Liszt's early pieces, like El Contrabandista and Grande Fantasie de bravoure sur La Clochette, are almost impossible to play at original tempo. Anyway, thank you for this great video.
What about Liszt's Études de d'execution transcendante d'apres Paganini no.4 and no.6? Aren't they his most difficult pieces.
Daniel T
I wouldn't say they are the most difficult due to their relatively shorter length, but I would say they are much more difficult than all the Transcendental Etudes.
yik hay wan I wouldn't necessarily agree, but you're right.
yik hay wan s. 140 no 4b is harder than ANY piece, doesn't matter what you say, no one can play it in the tempo of original caprice no. 1
yik hay wan I'd personality say that s. 137 mazeppa is harder than s. 139, but of course everyone is different
YESSS THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!
Love Chasse Neige so much ☃️❄️
I THINK THE SHIFT KEY ON YOUR KEYBOARD IS BROKEN!!!
Currently learning Dante Sonata and loving it!
I would love to see the sheet music during the examples of the pieces.... many things can sound difficult but are quite manageable... the sheet music would show just how hard they truly are.
Check out Feux Follets lmao
Yeah I think so too
Check out Reminisces of Lucretia Borgia you will be surprised
3:40 cat's like "wat?"
What about Totentanz or El Contrabandista?
Totentanz is a concerto!
Crispin
Totentanz has its solo piano version though
you might as well include all his other pieces, they all are v difficult to insane
Totentanz won't affect funny girls you know. It conveys the sense of life in many sorrowful ways, which Liszt only was the best at translating. It is RAGE against... It's a total horror and a bless at the same time. And, whoever wrote that, it is not a freaking conCERTO, IT IS THE SYMPHONY OF DEATH (orchestra-wise).
His études d'execution transcendente d'apres paganini no 6 and especially 4b are harder. They are impossible to play at tempo.
Aren't Liszt's S 137 and S 140 sets of etudes considered more difficult than the transcendental etudes?
They are
Yeah, she didn't do her research
@@calebhu6383, not on all of it, because she was wrong about most people not liking "Sonata in B minor". However, she's right about "Fuex Follets" being one of his most difficult pieces.
@@alvexok5523 When it first was premiered, the B minor Sonata was not well received.
@@calebhu6383, yes, I did look something else up and read that after posting my earlier comment. Just so I get my facts straight, alot more people started loving the sonata around the end of the 1800s, start of the 1900s?
Great video! Liszt’s Sonata (aka Grande Sonate) was completed in 1853, though he had been working on its composition for quite some time (years). It was published in 1854.
Un Sospiro should be here. One of the most beautiful etudes ever written. Played the B minor sonata - it isn't that tricky just a marathon... and then there is that passage octaves three pages from the end that makes one concentrate a fair bit! Thank you for sharing!
You are mostly wrong
There are a lot of liszt Pieces that are harder than the ones listed.
yeah but most of them are not very popular
True. Dante Sonata is not too hard compared with other things in Liszt's repertoire. It's actually 'easy' if you compare it with some opera paraphrases, transcendental etudes etc. Also Rigoletto LOLOL, I played it for my A-levels with 17.
True. The Symphonic Transcriptions some of the big Reminisces are more difficult. But Feux Follets is among the most difficult for its length . But it fails to compare with some of Liszt’s bigger works
@@historywave5776 so true. Kind of sad
Thank you so much for including Mazeppa. I feel I’d it to be quite under appreciated yet it is my favorite performance piece is definitely deserves a spot as one of the hardest pieces to play
I don't know why all those great composers did not like Liszt's B minor Sonata. It's probably my favourite piano piece from the romantic period.
It was probably ahead of its time, because it’s considered among the romantic greats today.
iCST Thats true, but Clara Schumann saying it sounds like "nothing" really does not make sense to me.
@@ajaysandhu4670 , I bet it was jealousy. Sonata in B minor really has some amazing beautiful parts in it. Maybe the piece being so long was why there were some people who didn't like it as much. However, there were people who enjoyed sitting through concertos which were longer, so that's not it. There are a couple of sort of sleepy parts to Sonata in B minor around the middle of the piece, but the fabulous, exciting, and beautiful parts take up alot more of the piece than the couple of little sleepy parts. It is overall an amazing work of piano music
@@alvexok5523 Always jealousy !
@Felis Skalkotris Sorabjitus Thank you very much for the explanation. Now I will finally respect this beautiful sonata more.❤️
Wilde Jagd, Appassionata, and the Rigoletto Paraphrase are nowhere near Liszt's most difficult works. Neither is the Dante Sonata, really. How much research goes into these videos?
Touche
I just looked at the score for Lucrezia Borgia and thought "Yeah... no." I dont think any of the pieces here are nearly as difficult.
Wilde jagd and appasionata?? Are you joking? They are only warm up pieces of Liszt
How about Paganini etude 3,4,6 (1838)
Reminiscences de Norma,la clochette and don juan
The hardest Liszt pieces are his transcriptions and later work, His transcriptions of all the Beethoven symphonies (over 4 hours of music) are far more difficult than any of the etudes, his Don Juan piece, el contrabandista, his Rossini, Schubert, and Wagner transcriptions etc... are are also incredibly difficult, off the grading scale basically. For some reason everyone leaves these off the list of his most difficult.His etudes are meant to prepare pianists to play works like the transcriptions. Things like La Campanella, chasse neige, and even HR2 are nothing compared to things like his 4th movement of the 9th symphony transcription. His most famous transcription of Ave Maria is written across 3 staves and is one of the most difficult shorter pieces. They're also the best musically imo.
Exactly!!! Der Erlkönig is a great example, since the horse's galloping sound is so exhausting to play. Your other references are also great examples.
She's talking about Lizst and I can't even complete a level 3 Bach's piece!! 😂
Great video by the way. I learned from you a lot. Thank you for that. 😊
Well, Bach is very difficult….. in a different way, but believe me, you are playing very difficult music if you’re playing Bach so congrats to you 😃
Loving that cat in the background ahahahha
It's Liszt's cat :)
If it's Liszt's cat, it's MY cat.
I love Liszt and I love your videos.
El contrabandista?
His études d'execution transcendente d'apres paganini(The original paganini études) are harder
They are impossible.
@@dhruvsawant9234 the 4th B is
@@randmgenericname5077 the 3rd and the 6th ones haven't been played at tempo either
@@dhruvsawant9234 I only know about 4B but 6 maybe. Btw, the transcendental etudes are simplified version of liszt's Douze Grandes Etudes.
@@randmgenericname5077 I know, but I think 4b of the d'execution transcendente d'apres paganini is harder than all the douze grande études.
Great pieces, I'm gonna Liszten to them right now!
Apassionata and Transcendental Etude is the same thing, gotcha.
Mi Les wot
How on earth can anybody mixed up the Appassionata and Transcendental Etude ?
Lar M I think he means transcendental etude no. 10
Apassionata is also the name given to the 10th Transcendental Etude as well as the Beethoven sonata. Pieces can share the same name.
yes apassionata was in fact a transcendantal étude
Without this video I would of never known about such a great piece like Dante sonata
I love your background cat. This is a fascinating video, as a novice when it comes to music I've really enjoyed your content
- Liszt Douze Grandes Etudes S. 137
- Etudes S. 140
- Rondo Fantastique El Contrabandista
- Grande Fantasie de bravoure sur La Clochette
- Reminiscences de Don Juan
- Grande Fantasia da Concerto su Temi Spagnoli
Those are all probably more difficult than some pieces mentioned in your list that could be replaced with these. Also, I would argue that the 10th transcendental etude (if that is we are talking transcendental etudes not grandes etudes) is among the easier of the set.
Jakob Huntington The 10th transcendental depends on ones abilities and technique. For me personally it is harder than mazeppa
Jakob Huntington No. 10 is considered among the the fifth most difficult of the set; wouldn’t call that the easiest.
Niccolo Paganini How so? Either you have basic technical weaknesses in arpeggios or you aren’t playing Mazeppa correctly.
In what ways would you say Appassionata is harder than Mazeppa? Having played them, there really isn't a single very striking technique to outshine the difficulty of Mazeppa.
iCST Mazeppa is easier for me, because it is mostly just banging the keyboard with chords and octaves except that blind octaves passage and b-major section and those are the things i can play very well. Going back to the 10th...idk, it's just how it is
Edit. I haven't learned any of transcendentals fully, but only "tried" them, so it may be the reason why i'm saying something like this
I've been looking for a top 10 hardest piano w/o Liszt, and there's none.
Do Mozart next
His concertos are like: omae wa mou shinderu
You should do a video of the hardest pieces you have played.
Excluding multi-movement works, I believe Liszt's technically hardest piece is his etude no. 4, S. 140. This etude is harder than perhaps any etude even Alkan composed. Another contender is his Great Spanish Fantasy, an uncommon work of astounding difficulty 15-20 minutes long. Both pieces are far more difficult than El contrabandista or Feux follets.
I really love your videos especially the ones that focus on the easiest and hardest works from composers compositions for solo piano, but I would really love to get a video about Scarlatti
Wasn't Reminiscences de Don Juan insanely difficult as well? (I also really like Reminiscences de Norma, but I don't know if it's as difficult). Also, Wieck and Brahms were so wrong about the b minor sonata!
Bacchic Bachian Yes. Extremely hard.
Don Juan is just about harder than everything she's listed and Norma is about as difficult as the Dante sonata.
One of the my's favourite's composer!
Did you know that Liszt means fluor?
You forgot the etude no6 s140
What is your cat checking out in the beginning of the video?
What about La Campanella
@Robin Wohner 8AK Uglegårdsskolen it is, the technique is insanely hard
@@yes7234 no I can reach an 11 so for me it's pretty easy
@@samuelrappaport6162 , the wide jumps are what make La Campanella so challenging, the wide jumps are about good hand/eye coordination, which not everyone, including me, have. If la Campanella is a bit easier for you, than you have good coordination. Mine isn't so great though. Mephisto waltz has a part with some challenging wide jumping too.
@@yes7234 it's s 140(études d'execution transcendente d'apres paganini) version could be one of the hardest.
Even then however, the 4b of that set is harder
@@yes7234 It's not compared to harder works. Nobody said it wasn't difficult.
Brahms really like the b minor sonata. He fell asleep because of jetlag: but he was a big fan.
Can you please do one about Scriabin? And these piano videos are so great to watch! Keep up the great work!!!
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what about his hungarian rhapsodies?
zaya
They’re really not that hard (assuming you are that level of course, additionally simplified versions exist and is as low as level 6)
Even Hungarian rhapsody no. 2!?!?!
Ghawk Gaming nope
True HR2 is not that hard compared to some of liszts hardest pieces
An interesting fact which you did not mention is the meaning behind the name Transcendental Etudes. They were so named because each of the 12 etudes is progressively more difficult than the previous one. In other words each etude transcends the previous etude in technical difficulty.
Douglas Larson i wouldn't say that due to the 3rd and 7th one
I don't understand what you are saying with your comment. I have never attempted to play these etudes myself so I am not speaking from personal experience. Further, I don't know who it was that applied the moniker "Transcendental" to this set of 12 etudes by Liszt. It may have been Liszt himself or it may have been applied by someone else. But I read an article about Liszt and it mentions the Transcendental Etudes and goes on to say just what I said in my original post, i.e. the name "Transcendental" was meant to describe the technical difficulty of playing all 12. The technical difficulty of each etude transcends or is more technically difficult than the previous one. Whether every person who has played all 12 would agree with that description taking each etude in sequence, I have no idea.
Douglas Larson It was Liszt who named the etudes "études d'Exécution transcendante", or etudes in transcendental difficulty in english(i could spell something wrong). I haven't of course played any of the etudes , but i have tried literally every of them and evem attempted to learn nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 (i was too lazy to finish any of them, except feux follets and appassionata, as they are insane). And referring to my last comment, the 3rd one is the easiest of all transcendentals and comparable to Chopin's easier preludes and nocturnes and comes after the short but apparently harder preludio and even more harder allegro molto(may be wrong about the name/tempo), and then...well nothing in the set is harder than no. 5, so your theory isn't the smartest one
There are lots of other piano works more difficult than the works you mentioned.
This video was about Liszt's hardest works. There are some works by other composers with even tougher works than any of Liszt's. Stravinsky's Firebird, Rachmaninoff's Concerto no. 3, Alkan's Concerto for solo piano, and Schumann's Toccata in C major are some of the hardest piano pieces ever.
And, there are a few very difficult Liszt pieces not mentioned in this video; La Campanella, Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, several of his Paganini Etudes, and Mephisto waltz.
Liszt's Trans. Etudes Fuex Follets and Mazeppa are one of his hardest though
@@alvexok5523 Liszt wrote a piece that nobody could play but him & hasn't been plaid by anybody but a computer to this date ! Many don't know this fact !
@@spark_6710 , which piece was that?
@@alvexok5523 ruclips.net/video/A-TwL2BVcH0/видео.html And I believe Grand Etude De Paganini S 141 No3 G sharp minor La Campanella . I've been trying so hard to retrive the video I watched a while ago for you & another person asking me ! But , unfortunately I can't find it ! Ugh !!! Some dare to say that Liszt never indicated the tempos as even he was not able to play them himself !!!??? LOLLOLLOL Liszt was the greatest pianist/ composer in the history & people , so many many of them witnessed it ( his breathtaking out of this world speedy performances ) & they talked !!! Also Liszt was not a dumb or delusional person to write pieces that he couldn't play at the speed he intended ! That's SO SILLY !!! I know many are still jealous ! Many can't simply believe such a phenomenal human being exists/ existed ! I feel bad for Liszt ! Galileo ( he said the earth was round & spinning itself & then stoned to death by idiots ! ). Liszt probably intentionally didn't write the tempos as he truly wanted others to play w/ o too much stresses or intimidations ! As he was very generous to his peers & pupils !
@@spark_6710, I believe that Liszt was a phenomenal being. He could play difficult works at speeds that most have never been able to do. And, I have read how Liszt didn't always perform his pieces the way they're written while he performed, he embellished parts and added extras to it making them even more complex and exciting sounding. The La Campanella Paginini that you mentioned, I think I've seen that video, where it's played extra fast and many commenters were saying that it was sped up by computer. Liszt may've really been able to play it just as fast as in that video himself
My piano teacher wants me to learn the fourth Transcendental Etude. I'm learning Hungarian Rhapsody in C#minor by Liszt.
Mazeppa, TE #4, now that's a challenging one
I absolutely love Mazeppa
Also to mention that the theme of "apassionata" was taken from a chopin etude
Jérôme Schmitz From which etude?
Op. 10 no. 9
Jérôme Schmitz Yeah i could expect that
What about El Contrabandista?
Valentina Listista said herself that it is one of the most impossible piece to play and it is also said that Listz himself failed at a live performance trying to play it.
Ethan Lam She doesn't know what she's talking about. Liszt could play anything he wanted, literally everything, he just failed to popularize the piece
Ethan Lam Btw. Liszt composed plenty harder pieces, which he could play
Niccolo Paganini She does know what she's talking about, Liszt failed to make it popular, not to play it and if anyone knows Liszt, it's Lisitsa. She simply loves to include such confusing statements
She states it to be the single most impossible piece she has encountered, which is really something considering everything she has played.
Btw, Liszt has one Paganini Etude that NO ONE is able to perform in Tempo. So, would Liszt be the exception?
James Hakai The one to know Liszt is Leslie Howard, this guy recorded literally EVERY Liszt piece and explained sonata in b minor with every detail. I weren't talking only about s. 140 no. 4b, but some of his transcriptions, paraphrases, reminiscense(i probably fckd to spell this one) and other pieces i forgot to mention, because i don't remember them
I wonder also how high would you rate Lisitsa in piano world, because i would personally never call her as one of the best living pianists
What about The friska in Hungarian rhapsody 6
You should've mentioned Reminiscences de Don Juan!
i can only play this with a computer , therefore liszt was a computer ,
The B minor sonata is quite a challenge but compare to The Ghost Ballad it is twinkle twinkle little star !
What about Mephisto Valse?
Not this hard (though it is harder than appassionata)
please do a "The music of Mompou"
Why include Transcendental Etudes but not the Earlier/Harder Grande Etudes?
What about the impossible Liszt / Paganini etude no.4 ?
I'd personally say No. 6 of that set is more difficult since it focuses on many other difficulties. Also, the both of them don't have any tempo markings.
and then you have the liszt paganini original 1838 etudes! especially no 4
Impossible except for lizst! I think she wants real examples of playing
your videos are great!
What about Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini no. 6?
Next on the LISZT!
Well done!
I’m convinced that liszt main goal was to make fun of other pianists
Great vid! Wish you could add the sheet music along with the audio samples. Thanks!
5:27 so nobudy is going to talk about the cat? Ha?
Everyone is talking about the cat...
Also: you shouldn’t have the transcendentals: you should have the douze grandes which were the originals and are far harder than any piece on this list.
Whoopsie on Clara. 😉🧡
Liszt never understood the art of writing compositions that are easy to play. 😂😂😂😂😂
He TRIED with his beautiful Consolations at least. 🤗
klavierstucke, his later religious works, etc
Grand galop chromatique?
It's tough but it's possible.
Feux-Follets is not "really fast" or should not be; it is marked allegretto. Pianists like Frederic Lamonde who was taught by Liszt or Claudio Arrau who was taught by a student of Liszt play the study allegretto as marked and are able to find more musical expression.
5:16 ," wow that wall looks good " ... if u know what i mean .. xd
What about El Contrabandista?
what is your cat looking at :D
Totentanz?
The cat haha, my chubby ginger one will jump onto the piano whenever I play too...
Clara is the daughter of Frederich Wieck, and she married Robert Schumann.
How about Carl Tausig The Ghost Ship Ballad ?
No hungarian rhapsody no 2???
I did my own version . What do you think
How hard are Liszt's piano transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies?
TimeAndChance only some movements are truly difficult technically, and some of the slow movements are perfectly manageable. However doing them musical justice is a very significant challenge
The feux follets : hehe im impossible
What about la Campanella?
Ghawk Gaming that's easier than the other pieces
I know but it is an extremely hard piece
Keep up the great work and tell mike I said hi
what about his ballade? or any of the rhapsodies?
the orage of annees de pelerinage should be added.
Appasionata, and Chopins prelude in C major and Tarantella in Ab major. Tell me if you hear it too.
*paganini etude 4 1838ver* lol
I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH i hate minions too.
not overrated
I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH a whole plethora of things, including but not limited to, repeating tenths, stretches larger than tenths, 2+ octave leaps, the iconic chord arpeggios things (i don't know there real name).
I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH even though that no.4 has no real tempo marking, playing it at 1bpm would be cheating, so it would be safe to assume that the closer you are to caprice no.1, the more legit a run would be, even then no.4B is still not that much easier at the lower speed that the performances are at.
make a history of schumman please
fuck i love your channel
The Hexameron?
Please make a video about grade 6 trinity
Your cat is beautiful
isn't the first version of his fourth etude based on paganini themes impossible
6:20 lmao s 140 is much harder
You mean S.137?
@@thenotsookayguy no i mean 140
Oh, okay.
@@thenotsookayguy S140 I think is the transcendental Paganini
@@SCRIABINIST I know it is, but I was talking about the Grande Études s.137
What's the title of the music
im 29 and play piano lil bit i want to become professional is it possible now ?
Clara Schumann was Robert's wife, not sister.
What about the Mephisto waltzes, or contrabandista?!?!? Or even some of the Hungarian rhapsodies
What about the Remininscences de don juan
the first aka The Dante Sonata