Ten Great Original Melodies by Franz Liszt
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2019
- Liszt: this one word sparks so much controversy among musicians and scholars. Most view Liszt as nothing more than a showman, and a second-rate composer of empty virtuosity. However, I, like many others, disagree. This video was my attempt of showing people amazing melodies written by Liszt. I have not included famous melodies such as his Hungarian Rhapsodies or Paganini Études (which are composed using existing themes from gypsy music in Hungary and the Italian violinist Paganini respectively) and to present some lesser known of Liszt's original melody writing. As a composer, Liszt revolutionised harmony and structure more than melodies, but there are many gems to be found scattered among his virtuosic transcriptions and pieces of his youth.
In no particular order (a.k.a my order :P):
10. Romance in E Minor, S.169 (Jeno Jando) [teodor son]
9. En Reve, S.207 (André Laplante) [musicanth]
8. Wild Jagd, S.139/8 (Evgeny Kissin) [Ashish Xiangyi Kumar]
7. Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S.534/2bis (Clemens Muller) [Medtnaculus]
6. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude, S.173/3 (Steven Hough) [Ashish Xiangyi Kumar]
5. Eglogue, S.160/7 (Aldo Ciccolini)
4. Dante Sonata, S.161/7 (Vitaly Pisarenko)
3. Piano Concerto No. 1, S.124 (René Duchable) [Bartje Bartmans]
2. Valse Oubliée No. 2, S.215/2 (Goran Filipec) [Andrei Christian Anghel]
1. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.178 (Alexei Grynyuk) [Ashish Xiangyi Kumar]
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This video is over two years old, and of course in my deep research of Liszt and greater understanding of his works, this video is decent but sort of obsolete. Thanks for enjoying it and subscribing to my channel!
Liszt is simply the greatest composer to ever live.
@@nicholasyanis1348 Yes indeed.
Nice
how would you update this list with newer melodies that you have discovered or revalued?
@@nicholasyanis1348 Liszt is incredible but this statement just isnt true
The wilde jagd melody/passage is incredible
The people who denigrate Liszt are those who only know a dozen or so of his pieces. Or, those who just won't ever get over Mozart.
So many people just get a real superficial, almost meme-y, understanding of LIszt and then think that that's all there is to him. His famous Hungarian Rhapsodie, Lisztomania, and really fast piano playing make up much of his modern day perception.
He was in truth an incredible composer who was incredibly innovative, especially in the later periods of his (very long) life.
That’s a very good way of putting it :) he wasn’t just revolutionary in his late period, but pieces like his early S.154 and S.155 show that Liszt was experimenting from the beginning. Thanks for your comment!
very true its crazy how little respect he gets seeing how impressionistic so many of his harmonies and pieces are, and some decades before that was a thing
7:45 is my favourite.
Very magical, I remember when I first heard it :)
I would include ballade in b minor for sure.
The recapitulation of that piece has to be one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking melodies in the history of romantic music
I ought to have, yeah :)
In addition to pieces already mentioned here and in the comment section, I also like the melodies in La Leggierezza, Ricordanza (Transcendental Etude #9), the piano concerto no.2 and Mazeppa symphonic poem
1:08 it is so beautiful. I've played it and it is very easy but you need to understand it...
Jeux d’euax a la villa d’este is amazing too, probably his best original work, and liebestraum 3 deserves to be in this list, no pun intended
It’s difficult to pin down Liszt’s best original work, but I feel it would be something more like his Sonata than Jeux d’eau. They are nice melodies too :)
The counter melody of Dies Irae in the 1st variation in "Totentanz" played firstly by the bassoon is really great. It's even so great that you can use it as a fugue theme.
Update: meanwhile I wrote a double fugue using the melody and an inversion of the first phrase of the Dies Irae, but I want to record a professional piano first before publishing it.
The theme can be used in strettos as well. It’s very unfortunate that Liszt didn’t exhaust the possibility. He really missed an opportunity. The fugato later in Totentanz is great though.
Thank you for making this video, I'd also like people to understand Liszt better, he is such an underrated composer. Of course he has show-off pieces but that's why when he creates such nice melodies, my soul can resonate with him, I kind of think of myself the same.
You’re welcome :)
How many octaves do you want?
Liszt: Yes
It is those people's incompetency and being incapable of playing pieces on the harder side of the spectrum that makes them arrogant enough to call his music "emptily virtuosic". They are all subordinate to those who show the manifest juggernaut of the composer, and it is not only the searing melodies that count, but also parts that are scherzotic or dramatic or diabolic, that is why Scherzo und Marsch is one among my favourite Liszt works. And lastly, Liszt was a showman (what's wrong with being one? xD)
Hey you mind if I use your message to send to people who say his music is emptily virtuosic?
@@LisztAddict absolutely fine
Harmonies du soir are too good.
8:18 Too good!!
Some parts of the first movement and the second movement of the 2nd piano concerto also include such beautiful melodies!
This is the music of transcendental genius, his second movement of the first concerto, gives the form of heaven it's shape, who teaches someone something like that, where do you start?
Un magnifique best off du piano de Franz Liszt !Mais des coupures intempestives surprenantes !
Apparitions no 3
Valse de concert
Caprice valse no 2
Faust symphony mvt 2 piano version
Petrerach sonetto 104
Vallee d'obermann
Yep, they’re all really good too, it’s difficult compiling a list of only ten!
This sonata is awesome, and this interpretation is very good fantastic
Part 2? 🥺
hmmmm i wonder if james has seen this video
I like Hymne from Harmonies Poetiques Et Religueses S.172a
Spanish Rhapsody should be in this list too imo.
Liszthesia I contemplated to include the Spanish Rhapsody, his Petrarch Sonnet 104 and Vallee d’Obermann and others, but had to cut the list down to ten pieces. Thanks for watching!
@@TheModicaLiszt Les Jeux D'eau à la villa d'este would have been nice too! The main of it is very beautiful :)
SamuelSaarikivi Yes, I personally think that Liszt was the true father of Impressionism in music, not the French Debussy.
Franz Liszt-Chopin Yeah, Liszt was
oh lol i forgot the theme was from spanish traditional folk music
Sonetto 104 petrarca?
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude, is my favorite
It was my favourite for a long time through early 2019 😌
Liszt really nailed his Sonata
Yes he did :)
Nailed it to the ground where it's incapable of moving anymore because god damn it's directionless.
@@Whatismusic123 ?
@@glauberglousger6643 This person is a troll, just ignore them.
@@glauberglousger6643he’s a troll don’t worry about him
Liszt is genius.
Indeed he was :)
1:02 noo my favorite part
3:21 2nd bar you can see, isn't that crochet (1/4 note) C bad spaced? Shouldn't it be 2 semiquavers (1/16ths) before (if we maintain the rhythm)?
i thinks so, but minus 3!
the liszt fans united will never be defeated
Thank you :D l like Liszt so much
You’re welcome :))
Where would you rank Sancta Dorothea?
The melody is very simple and crotchety... . whike I like the piece, I thought other melodies would show a more holistic range of what Liszt was capable of as a melody writer
10. 0:00
9. 1:04
8. 1:44
7. 2:50
6. 3:52
5. 5:10
4. 6:51
3. 8:18
2. 9:34
1. 10:50
11:43 😍
Liszt era unico! ❤❤❤❤❤
I'd definitely say to add Reminiscences De Norma, which is in my opinion Liszt's best work.
Erm, mate, the melodies in Norma aren’t by Liszt, but by Bellini. Sorry to burst your bubble. If I were to put in a Liszt operatic fantasy, it would be Lucrezia Borgia anyway which is superior.
@@TheModicaLiszt Oh are they really? Wow. Never mind then
@@jamespeterson101 Liszt’s Reminiscences and Fantasies use music from popular operas as their basis.
@@TheModicaLiszt AHhhahahahalrighty, I just listened to all 23 mins of Lucrezria Borgia and boi oh boi. I didn't think De Norma could be beat, but dang. I definitely preferred some parts of De Norma, but when it comes to the overall, in general better song, I do have to agree. Borgia is surperior.
@@jamespeterson101 Norma is iconic and really amazing, saying one is superior is meant to be a little lighthearted and subjective, but I’ve very glad you’ve discovered new music. Lucrezia Borgia is one of my favourites :) Thanks for subcribing!
Mazurka brilliant,1 ballade,mazeppa,au lac de wallestadt)
To leave out the Second Piano Concerto and Un Sospiro is ridiculous. Also the Consolation number 3 is one of his most beautiful Melodies. This list is very haphazard.
I’ll gently direct you to the title of the video, which implies that it contains a selection of ten great melodies.
It is not a “top ten” list. Therefore I’m not leaving out melodies of unquestionble greatness in this video.
Mepfisto waltz is too very originály and great.
:)) Yeah, a lot of people overlook them, but I think they’re so catchy
Yes, this is true.
Polonaise brillante has a really catchy melody too
Are you thinking of the deux Polonaises S.223, or the Mazurka Brilliante S.221?
@@TheModicaLiszt No this ruclips.net/video/FJfQTLOnXTg/видео.html
@@F1r2ify That is not an original melody by Liszt, but by Carl Maria von Weber
i cant believe u didnt add ricordanza its one of the better etudes
Harmonies du Soir has a cracking original melody
😮Were are "benediction de diens dan la solitude" and "reminiscences de norma"?
Norma is not an original tune
No Ballade 2? :(
What a superb original melody that is!
Yay, finally some love for Valse Oubliee 2 (which I think is better than the first). One thing I’ll say though, I think the melodic section in the middle of Aux Cypres de la Villa d’Este No.2 is definitely one of Liszt’s best melodies, I would just put that into top 3 honestly
Great list! My favorite melody by him is the 2nd part of the Ballade #2. That melody is just so warm.
ruclips.net/video/m90vsN3SjvM/видео.html
Ballade No 2 is so epic, I ought to have included it looking back.
ballade d'ukraine?
To be frankly honest, I hadn’t listened to that before I made this list. But it likely comes from folk melody anyway, so isn’t an original one from Liszt :)
It's the harmonies that drive these works... not so much the melodies
Liszt wasn't a great composer of melodies, but he was amazing at functional harmony
Few of his time reach this level
Fake melodies if I copy others i go to the jail but if Liszt copies he becomes a genius a titan I think he is a cuckoo bird
So you don't consider Chopin a genius either?
Most of the melodies, especially the nocturnes, are based on other songs from the same period.
You must be one of the people who only listen to Wagner, Mahler, Prokofiev and composers considered """original""
(I'm not criticizing, Wagner, Mahler and Prokofiev are among my favorites)
True Chopin was inspired by the Irish composer but never took his themes see the difference ?Chopin is the category of Mozart and Beethoven Liszt is the category of Alkan Thalberg and Czerny
@@pianista-mediocre
@@vincentedelmond5404
I'm not equating Chopin and Liszt, I'm not stupid. I'm just saying that saying they are "fake melodies" when the greatest piano composer also does this is a bit strange
@@pianista-mediocre all I'm saying LIszt cannot make music MUSIC I didn't say ur stupid please stay in the context go and make the best of Liszt let's see how many viewer you will have
@@pianista-mediocre don't bother arguing with this dilettante
Romance is not a Liszt original composition
It is though
@@TheModicaLisztIts based on a song called "O pourquoi donc" . Search it
Tell me who the original composer was then?