+PMAPN I've read that he actually intentionally wanted to make this piece as hand-breaking as possible, а bravura for the end of concerts, but, dig this, gave up probably because it was too much even for him. Now basically nobody plays this.
+Yavor Chomonev well i kinda doubt this was too much for him hence some of his douze grandes etudes are way harder like feux follets or no.10, anyways i read somewhere that its not that he failed or couldnt play it, it was just that the piece was never a "hit" with the crowd.
Anonymous Literally the only major pianist currently playing it regularly. Mikhail Pletnev himself was eager to play it, but gave up because it was "unplayable". And no offence mate, but I'd take his word on it.
+Yavor Chomonev There are some impossible pieces od Liszt that noone can play them.This can be the hardest piece that is played but It is not the hardest piece in all.
+Abel Lifschutz There's only one person who I know, can play this completely and it's Lisita. Pletnev gave up trying to play it saying it was 'unplayable' fair enough though. lol
@@pleasecontactme4274 Funny, because evertime I show this piece to a musician and tell them that I want to play just like that they all say that I need jesus.
It's funny you say that because I literally got mental images of sailing boats during this whole song! It's soo fresh and outdoorsy sounding, clear blue waters, sunshine and boats with white sails. That's the energy I get from the piece
Franz Liszt: _"I'll make a piano composition, and I'll play it at the end of my concerts!"_ *makes **_Franz Liszt - Rondo Fantastique "El Contrabandista"_* 24 hours later.... : nobody plays it on concerts.
take a look at etudes d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini and especially no 6 , the first version, i mean the S. 140, only Nikolai Petrov played it and actually not up to the real tempo as its written. In my opinion the hardest thing a human can achieve
3:58 I don't know how to feel at this part but yet my ears feel blessed to hear it feel sad and happy at the same time....this part runs the music strongly through your veins Just love this part.....👌👌
Well you know... Nobody can play für elise well... It is easy to play, thats true... but that piece sounds like bullshit when children play it (too fast)
waldemar waldwald ikr. It's such a beautful pece, but nobody realises that t's not just the music that's beautiful. If some self taught kid (whom you may find many claiming 'i learned liszt's etudes all from synthesia with no lessns' sure you did) it's just notes, and everything's off. I remember when i was in school, just stsrtng to teach myself piano as i had just gotten into it (i then got lessons, and realised the world of music you CAN'T access from being self taught. It's not just a slower process, it's impossible. It's like being a self taught physicist, or self taught surgeon, you can't do it) whenever we had music and we'd have a piece arranged for everyone to play, i would never get to go on the piano because this one kid said 'i need to practice this', he was practising fur elise. Four years later, i've forgotten fur elise more times than there were notes of it he could play, and he gave up on it. It's clear the gap between somebody who thinks they understand music, and somebody who does. I thought i was sick of claire de lune, i hesrd it five hundred million times and it just make me physically ill to hear the first chord. Then i hesrd arichter play it, and i realised just how important the performer is in making a piece of music sound good. Fur elise has a lot of potential. In reality, a beautiful piece of music is just a piece of music with a lot of potential to be beautiful. But people just think 'i'll play marriage d'amour and make everyone cry', and it may work on the school level. But if a trained pianist were among the audience they might've had a stroke about how uneven everything is, and how the phrases don't flow, and how the rubato's turnin their brain to mush. It takes a smilled performer to make a piece like fur elise in a way that gives credit to the piece of music
Well he was a prolific drinker and smoker ...playing piano whilst drunk is almost impossible, but who knows what he was smoking xD though I find smoking weed increases musical creativity but also reduces playability. Compose whilst high, play whilst sober and then just relax with a nice drink after to rest your hands :P
If i find mistakes in my own MIDIs i will sometimes correct them and upload the video again. In this case this isn't my own MIDI but i wasn't happy with the editing.
99% final fantasy boss/battle themes are "classical pieces" in terms of style. If you like FF soundtracks, then you certainly will like classical music too.
8:44 to 9:26 is my most favorite part. Although its very difficult to play fast repeated notes alone but adding chords along side it is even more difficult. I saw Val play this piece and my jaws dropped. I read somewhere that Liszt couldn't play all the note with his hands so at one point during the piece he used his nose to hit some of the notes. LOL
This is Liszt in his youth when he was the most energetic and craziest. Sadly he never made a revision of this, I mean sadly not because the music isn't beautiful itself but because it is so hard few pianists have decided to bring this music to life.
Liszt played this piece for george sand and praised it, and was even hailed by berlioz as one of liszt's finest works, yet liszt didn't even play it to his recitals at all. The pieces he could've played in the finale of his recitals (which was the intention of Rondo fantastique) instead were the Spanish Rhapsody(in late years, since the rhapsody was composed in 1858)or probably some of his etudes and reminiscences. Liszt could play this no doubt for those wondering if liszt himself could or saying that even himself cannot because of the difficulty, it's just that he hardly played it for the public maybe because there were other pieces he played and he just forgot about this one? Idk that's my guess.
If there is one technique that makes this piece annoying to play more than the others, it's the repeating notes The trills are manageable The jumps are harsh but achievable The hand co-ordination is very tricky but comes with a lot of practice. But those repeating notes are honestly just meant to be a joke at this point
@@HilbertXVI 1, this isn't an Étude. It's a Rondo. 2, etudes are studies. They're essentially exercises, not specifically for showing off, though you can show off with them, technically.
Also remember guys that his hand was so big and that he could reach lots of octaves so it was natural that his songs are complicated but I don't know if I could play them but I really want to though so hopefully you Gus know why his songs are complicated
Thanos: "Haha, I got all six infinity stones"! Liszt: "OK, now play this one". Thanos: "Where is the 7th infinity stone? My mom told me there is one, let's go find it".
dario alcibar Lisitsa said this, didn't she? Well, that seems very questionable at best. I haven't found any source or biography of Franz Liszt that mentions anything about that. So Lisitsa must've said that just for marketing in order to get more views on her performance. :/ And it justly says so, as if she mentioned stuff like that, it would've implied that she was better than the composer himself :/ . And must've been for marketing. She claimed that this was never performed publicly except for Pletnev, but I've seen it performed publicly on youtube before she uploaded that. And what's never even mentioned, was that Liszt himself performed this piece in front of George Sand herself; and she praised the work publicly. Furthermore, this piece doesn't even look as hard as his other pieces like his Spanish fantasy or Don Juan which are many times harder than this (and a fun fact was that Liszt ALWAYS played Don Juan in his concerts and even Robert le Diable many times), so I don't know what the living hell was Lisitsa talking about. :/
I agree. This piece may have its difficulties, but I personally think works such as Islamey and Gaspard are harder. El contrabandista is really just difficult for the jumps and the fluid finger work at a high speed. It doesn't have the intense polyrhythms or voicing difficulties that many other hard pieces have. If Liszt was known to have sightread Islamey, I would be surprised that he could not play this piece from sight. Even many of his own pieces, like the fantasy on La Sonnambula and Tannhauser, are harder imo.
Jonny Vango Hi Johnny Vango. Contrary to your reply, nope, there's only one version of this piece, unlike the many other versions of his many other pieces, like the Sonnambula, the Lucrezia Borgia fantasy and the Clochette Fantasy where the first version of that was which he oddly lost. Furthermore, unless you heard that "Liszt wasn't confident enough to play the piece" from a biographical source about Franz Liszt, I will render that comment false. Out of all the biographies I read about Liszt, I've never caught sight of anything related to that. He played the piece to George Sand as well as another critic (I believe it was Schumann?) and both praised Liszt's playing of the piece in public. So if he was so confident in playing the piece in front of them, he'd certainly be confident to play this piece in public, and regarding the fact that he progammed this piece for his concerts, there's no doubt he could certainly play this. Anyway, from what I've heard, Valentina Lisitsa tried to indeed correct her fans' error by saying she meant "Liszt failed to make this piece popular, and then later replaced it with the Spanish Rhapsody" - even though I'm sure he made an earlier, more difficult version of the Spanish Rhapsody which was called the "Spanish Fantasy". But many of her fans missed this correction unfortunately..
Franz Liszt oh, maybe I was wrong because I cant really remember where I read that (maybe in the video of valentina lisistsa playing this song in the street)
GUYS! That's not the hardest Liszt piece! Because a lot of people think this. There are a lot of pieces harder of this like the paganini etudes (1838 version) Number 6 and 4 or the Grand' Fantaisie de Bravoure sur la Clochette de Paganini.
I think people say that this piece was hard cause the length and also on how "hard" this piece is.For anyone who want to play this piece i recommend to strength youre hand muscles,cause itll be LOONG and alot of HARD parts goodluck ;)
I always feel like Liszt is making pieces so hard to play on purpose. This piece could've had the same rhythm and the same tone even if he didn't add these unnecessary octaves and other hard irrelevant bits. Look at some of Beethoven's work. The actual sound of the piece is so comforting and great, but the piece itself isn't so complicated like the very famous and relaxing piece: Fur EliseHowever, Liszt adds all these extra notes to make the piece harder than it should be... Maybe Liszt just hates pianists and wants to create the hardest piece that no one can play lol.
+Dinkelstein Kerman I know how you feel because, 'til recently I too used midi files to learn pieces, but than I learned to read sheet. You will not believe how much easier it is to learn pieces if you can read it
Bo Bramer Ugh I find this piece to be so over rated because of valentina lisistas description in her piece. Im not annoyed by you but this piece isn't nearly as hard as most people think. That part is hard, but I can play it pretty easily. Many people say this piece is the hardest piece ever, ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE. All the reminiscences and the 1838 paganini etudes 3 4 and 6 and LA CLOCHETTE are WAY harder than this. Now that my rant is over, my point is that I'm tired of people saying that the" triple" octave jumps are nearly impossible. They are quite easy to the crazy jumps in 1838 paganini 6.
1:49 "N" for "Nope"
Somehow I never noticed that, but lol
Somehow I never noticed that, but lol
Somehow I never noticed that, but lol
Somehow I never noticed that, but lol
Somehow I never noticed that, but lol
Just remember, if its not hand breaking/ mind-boggling, its not Lizst
+PMAPN I've read that he actually intentionally wanted to make this piece as hand-breaking as possible, а bravura for the end of concerts, but, dig this, gave up probably because it was too much even for him. Now basically nobody plays this.
+Yavor Chomonev well i kinda doubt this was too much for him hence some of his douze grandes etudes are way harder like feux follets or no.10, anyways i read somewhere that its not that he failed or couldnt play it, it was just that the piece was never a "hit" with the crowd.
Anonymous Literally the only major pianist currently playing it regularly. Mikhail Pletnev himself was eager to play it, but gave up because it was "unplayable". And no offence mate, but I'd take his word on it.
+Yavor Chomonev There are some impossible pieces od Liszt that noone can play them.This can be the hardest piece that is played but It is not the hardest piece in all.
Anonymous There are no impossible pieces. He never wrote anything he couldn't play.
It's like one of those "joke" midi pieces no one's really expected to be able to play
+Abel Lifschutz There's only one person who I know, can play this completely and it's Lisita. Pletnev gave up trying to play it saying it was 'unplayable' fair enough though. lol
Yeah lik e circus galop
You need to see his transcendental etudes 4 and 6 from 1838 😂
His paganini etudes no 6 and especially 4b (the 1838 versions) are harder, because they're impossible
@@dhruvsawant9234 at tempo at least
Liszt was a sadistic, masochistic beautiful man This piece is incredible.
Sadomasochistic*
@@MinidouxButReal lol
I feel like he wrote this to annoy someone he disliked. Who played piano probably.
yeah to annoy Chopin probably
+Eyhab Youssef chopin died before liszt composed most of his music. When chopin was still alive, liszt became friends with him.
yergaderga
Ekhem...Chopin...Ekhem...
It was to impress judges at a piano recital but then he ended up completely butchering the whole performance.
@Canc'y liszt:cries
This is like a bunch of etudes compiled together
Ahh, 11 seconds. Just 10:50 minutes left and I will be one of the 4 that can play this!
+Revodon3s hhhhhhhhhh goo luck with that
After 9 months, have you given up?
Have you given up already?
I haven't given up. I am just going to have a VERY long break.
Took me eight months to do the first 2 minutes.
I'll have what Liszt was having when he wrote this, please
Satan
@@pleasecontactme4274 Funny, because evertime I show this piece to a musician and tell them that I want to play just like that they all say that I need jesus.
Son, i don't think you can handle it.
Uhm uhm, handel it. Staka dish
"I consist of Satan, Mephistophles and all other demons."
~Franz Liszt
Funny he carried a copy of The Holy Bible wherever he went.
I know this is a difficult piece and all but can we appreciate how much it *bops* from 3:59 to 5:16
This is exactly what I'm thinking
@@funnyuser2796 I think it's by far the greatest part of any song ever written
@@legacygains5742definitely amomg some of my favourite passages
0:23 the only part that i can play
Its like its sating liszt liszt liszt liszt
Liszt's compositions always remind me of sailing.
It's funny you say that because I literally got mental images of sailing boats during this whole song! It's soo fresh and outdoorsy sounding, clear blue waters, sunshine and boats with white sails. That's the energy I get from the piece
contrabandista means smuggler so i guess he was thinking of a smuggler's ship
The ostinato at 0:26 reminds me of a crew trying to hold a steady rhythm but not quite being able to hit the same note nor at the same time
Franz Liszt: _"I'll make a piano composition, and I'll play it at the end of my concerts!"_
*makes **_Franz Liszt - Rondo Fantastique "El Contrabandista"_*
24 hours later.... : nobody plays it on concerts.
+Eyob Sisay (Edge) Thats a big lie,he could play this just didn't perform it.He performed harder pieces he wrote.
Anonymous Seems like it.
+Eyob Sisay (Edge) Pieces like la campanella(3rd ver.) or Hungarian rhapsody no 2. arent anything next to this,I purely know that.
+Eyob Sisay (Edge) Feux Follets
take a look at etudes d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini and especially no 6 , the first version, i mean the S. 140, only Nikolai Petrov played it and actually not up to the real tempo as its written. In my opinion the hardest thing a human can achieve
i think listz was born with 4 extra hands.
no6
Asad Javed Believe me, Liszt was only going for a 3 hand effect on most of his pieces
No, he had tissue hands. He was able to compose more notes til his calm stage
@@marlenebennett4677 wth
Actually born with extra long fingers
3:58 I don't know how to feel at this part but yet my ears feel blessed to hear it feel sad and happy at the same time....this part runs the music strongly through your veins
Just love this part.....👌👌
I just cant comprehend how this is actually playable. Good god.
***** It is. People have played it before. Look it up.
Valentina Lisitsa has a wonderful live recording of her playing this flawlessly with no slip ups
It's not playable to you because you a creeper
And here I am still finding Fur Elise hard to play ;-(
+Jerrin Thomas so did you end up getting fur elise?
Well you know... Nobody can play für elise well... It is easy to play, thats true... but that piece sounds like bullshit when children play it (too fast)
I’m working on Prelude in C# minor
General Grevious there are about 50000000 preludes in c# minor, which one?
waldemar waldwald ikr. It's such a beautful pece, but nobody realises that t's not just the music that's beautiful. If some self taught kid (whom you may find many claiming 'i learned liszt's etudes all from synthesia with no lessns' sure you did) it's just notes, and everything's off. I remember when i was in school, just stsrtng to teach myself piano as i had just gotten into it (i then got lessons, and realised the world of music you CAN'T access from being self taught. It's not just a slower process, it's impossible. It's like being a self taught physicist, or self taught surgeon, you can't do it) whenever we had music and we'd have a piece arranged for everyone to play, i would never get to go on the piano because this one kid said 'i need to practice this', he was practising fur elise. Four years later, i've forgotten fur elise more times than there were notes of it he could play, and he gave up on it.
It's clear the gap between somebody who thinks they understand music, and somebody who does. I thought i was sick of claire de lune, i hesrd it five hundred million times and it just make me physically ill to hear the first chord. Then i hesrd arichter play it, and i realised just how important the performer is in making a piece of music sound good.
Fur elise has a lot of potential. In reality, a beautiful piece of music is just a piece of music with a lot of potential to be beautiful. But people just think 'i'll play marriage d'amour and make everyone cry', and it may work on the school level. But if a trained pianist were among the audience they might've had a stroke about how uneven everything is, and how the phrases don't flow, and how the rubato's turnin their brain to mush. It takes a smilled performer to make a piece like fur elise in a way that gives credit to the piece of music
What did he just smoke before he wrote this ? I mean... You can't just write this like "oh it sounds well, let's go ahead !"
He probably did the heaviest drugs in the world and then said to himself: I'm going to create the musical reincarnation of Satan.
+Gijs Wolfs LOL
Well he was a prolific drinker and smoker ...playing piano whilst drunk is almost impossible, but who knows what he was smoking xD though I find smoking weed increases musical creativity but also reduces playability. Compose whilst high, play whilst sober and then just relax with a nice drink after to rest your hands :P
Lol, I wonder that's why he called this piece like that "El Contrabandista"
Gijs Wolfs no u idiot go to 🏫
4:00 beautiful section
7:31 sounds like an explosion of notes!
If i find mistakes in my own MIDIs i will sometimes correct them and upload the video again. In this case this isn't my own MIDI but i wasn't happy with the editing.
Yes
00:25 it's like a pirate song
7:11 La Campanella Confirmed
This piece is beautiful
That's one hell of a finale.
i wonder why no one likes this song its a good masterpiece.
+KTofficial Because it's no one can play it other than Valentina Lisitsa! lol
Trent Not even her lol
@@tcv19982people play it in competitions all the time, Valentina made that up to promote herself.
its not. rather boring in everything other than technique.
The left hand sounds like its repeating "Lizst, Liszt, Liszt" over and over for the entire song
You can see hints of each of the transcendentals in this piece... huh
interesting ! explain :)
La vérité
at 0:54 that sounds like Feux Follets, at 1:46 Sounds kinda like Transcendental Etude no 4, just some examples. the technique is similar.
yeah and also from TE2 with all the octave-jumps
Love this piece, starts to sound like a royal British composition at around 3:10. Ahh my favourite part too.
Ah yeah me too!!!!
those left hand chords made it beatiful
Liszt é sempre fantástico. Que bom que todos possam vê-lo através da tecnologia, o que é melhor ainda.
Sounds like this can be adapted into a Final Fantasy battle song.
99% final fantasy boss/battle themes are "classical pieces" in terms of style. If you like FF soundtracks, then you certainly will like classical music too.
Sephiroth Bahamut this is mid-romantic era, not classical era
@@sephirothbahamut245 Whoa definitely not 99%. Especially for the earlier games, where most battle music was inspired by 70s prog.
Is anyone else scared of the two trills at 1:05
Im scared of the whole thing
Best ending I’ve seen for one of these hard pieces. May not be the hardest but the most dramatic nonetheless and still ridiculously hard
I saw your comment regarding the S.140 4b.
I'm Five YeaRs Old AnD I CaN PlaY THis
And thats what we call "BULLSHIT"
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1:54 holy shit this sounds so freaking epic!
My favorite part
8:44 to 9:26 is my most favorite part. Although its very difficult to play fast repeated notes alone but adding chords along side it is even more difficult. I saw Val play this piece and my jaws dropped. I read somewhere that Liszt couldn't play all the note with his hands so at one point during the piece he used his nose to hit some of the notes. LOL
Omg just imagine him randomly smacking his head to piano 😂😂
Where'd you read that?
So many comments about the hard it is and no about how beautiful it is
Sounds like Mozart at 3:57
It sounds like a part from Mozart's K545 Sonata
Ikr
Very strong notice 😍
Lol I commented this when I was 12, I was such a classical music nerd when I didn’t even play an instrument
3:57 sounds like Mozart's K545
Conni oh I was searching for someone who said this XD
Mozart at 3:57 : I made a piece for piano beginners!
Liszt at 3:57 : I made a piece for aliens!
A SEVENTH? NO? I'm talking about the whole piece lol
Thats actually 8:44
@Schuyler Bacn 2 So you are Sorabjitus !!
This piece has it all
Polyrhyth
Octaves
Scales
Trills
Jumps?
Hey, you missed something, it has:
Liszt
@@something2b445
7:21
I just feel like Liszt hated pianists and wrote stuff accordingly lol
+RudeGamer He was a pianist. And a damn good one too. This is the only song he wrote that even he (possibly) could not play.
+steven hamlin well i hope he was atleast able to hear it performed because I can't forget it
This is Liszt in his youth when he was the most energetic and craziest. Sadly he never made a revision of this, I mean sadly not because the music isn't beautiful itself but because it is so hard few pianists have decided to bring this music to life.
+steven hamlin He played harder oned just he didnt perform this
Pieces like reminiscences de don juan or grande fantasie sur la clochette are harder than this and he performed them!
Skill level : Liszt
CJ Follow the damn train
-you
Liszt played this piece for george sand and praised it, and was even hailed by berlioz as one of liszt's finest works, yet liszt didn't even play it to his recitals at all. The pieces he could've played in the finale of his recitals (which was the intention of Rondo fantastique) instead were the Spanish Rhapsody(in late years, since the rhapsody was composed in 1858)or probably some of his etudes and reminiscences.
Liszt could play this no doubt for those wondering if liszt himself could or saying that even himself cannot because of the difficulty, it's just that he hardly played it for the public maybe because there were other pieces he played and he just forgot about this one? Idk that's my guess.
He played it in concerts a few times.
you can't even begin to imagine how hard this is to play until you actually start playing it.
I made it 2 minutes in a year. I fucking give up.
Liszt was secretly the flash
2:30
*Melody changes to “We are number one”*
If there is one technique that makes this piece annoying to play more than the others, it's the repeating notes
The trills are manageable
The jumps are harsh but achievable
The hand co-ordination is very tricky but comes with a lot of practice.
But those repeating notes are honestly just meant to be a joke at this point
Playing it at times 2 speed
Sir, Liszt was a mad, mad man. This is the correct tempo...
+jaythejo hahahha
And thet told me that my Requiem in d minor had to many notes! lol...
Lisitsa isn’t the only one who is good enough, but only who wanted to learn this. Trifonov, Czriffa, Lang Lang etc. Could probably learn this too
I agree, CMV!
@Franz Schubert Yes.
Look up the channel lisztcompetition, many contestants have played this.
@@ValzainLumivixI was about to say that
"Look, it's raining blue and green stones"
Liszt: "No problem, I'll use my third hand then"
liszt just wrote pieces to show off his skills as a pianist
Johnathon Shakovits Yep, and that's what an etude is
and that is wrong?
Szia
Says the man himself 😂
@@HilbertXVI 1, this isn't an Étude. It's a Rondo.
2, etudes are studies. They're essentially exercises, not specifically for showing off, though you can show off with them, technically.
Piano is fun they said
A wonderful experience they said
Exquisite!
3:20 is fucking sick!
True
4:43
Also remember guys that his hand was so big and that he could reach lots of octaves so it was natural that his songs are complicated but I don't know if I could play them but I really want to though so hopefully you Gus know why his songs are complicated
3:57 so sad! 😔
Win Heber Goklas Sianipar 5:56 is more sad
Thanos: "Haha, I got all six infinity stones"!
Liszt: "OK, now play this one".
Thanos: "Where is the 7th infinity stone? My mom told me there is one, let's go find it".
10:55 sounds like a whole orchestra
its the effort to master this that puts me off trying to learn it... i just don't have that much 'be-botheredness'!
Got it on the first try
cookie?
Sure you did
it's a fucking joke
@@Souls_p_ yes... It is.
I'm saying that cause of the people saying "bull shit!" and "cookie?"
dario alcibar Lisitsa said this, didn't she? Well, that seems very questionable at best. I haven't found any source or biography of Franz Liszt that mentions anything about that. So Lisitsa must've said that just for marketing in order to get more views on her performance. :/ And it justly says so, as if she mentioned stuff like that, it would've implied that she was better than the composer himself :/ .
And must've been for marketing. She claimed that this was never performed publicly except for Pletnev, but I've seen it performed publicly on youtube before she uploaded that. And what's never even mentioned, was that Liszt himself performed this piece in front of George Sand herself; and she praised the work publicly.
Furthermore, this piece doesn't even look as hard as his other pieces like his Spanish fantasy or Don Juan which are many times harder than this (and a fun fact was that Liszt ALWAYS played Don Juan in his concerts and even Robert le Diable many times), so I don't know what the living hell was Lisitsa talking about. :/
I agree. This piece may have its difficulties, but I personally think works such as Islamey and Gaspard are harder. El contrabandista is really just difficult for the jumps and the fluid finger work at a high speed. It doesn't have the intense polyrhythms or voicing difficulties that many other hard pieces have. If Liszt was known to have sightread Islamey, I would be surprised that he could not play this piece from sight. Even many of his own pieces, like the fantasy on La Sonnambula and Tannhauser, are harder imo.
ive heard that liszt wasnt confident enough to play it in his recitals, and im pretty sure lisitsa plays a slightly modified version of this song
Jonny Vango Hi Johnny Vango.
Contrary to your reply, nope, there's only one version of this piece, unlike the many other versions of his many other pieces, like the Sonnambula, the Lucrezia Borgia fantasy and the Clochette Fantasy where the first version of that was which he oddly lost.
Furthermore, unless you heard that "Liszt wasn't confident enough to play the piece" from a biographical source about Franz Liszt, I will render that comment false. Out of all the biographies I read about Liszt, I've never caught sight of anything related to that. He played the piece to George Sand as well as another critic (I believe it was Schumann?) and both praised Liszt's playing of the piece in public. So if he was so confident in playing the piece in front of them, he'd certainly be confident to play this piece in public, and regarding the fact that he progammed this piece for his concerts, there's no doubt he could certainly play this.
Anyway, from what I've heard, Valentina Lisitsa tried to indeed correct her fans' error by saying she meant "Liszt failed to make this piece popular, and then later replaced it with the Spanish Rhapsody" - even though I'm sure he made an earlier, more difficult version of the Spanish Rhapsody which was called the "Spanish Fantasy". But many of her fans missed this correction unfortunately..
I totally aggree with you, but that report from Lisitsa is copied from Wikipedia :))
hey mazeppa this information was actually taken from a lizst biography.it was not made up by Valentina
Hi I'm a beginner and I'm going to learn this piece
Stupid Tutorials I wish you luck...
Have fun lol
Stupid Tutorials lol gl
Stupid Tutorials GOOD LuCK for us!
Stupid Tutorials how is it now?
Now play Salieri
:)
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Apparently, Liszt repeatedly banged his head at the piano, spamming the keys and made a masterpiece.
I aspire to be this level of extra™
Valentina Lisitsa has the best recording of this IMHO on youtube.
She is definitely one of the best pianists alive today
More like she has _the_ recording of this on youtube
@@toprak3479 Sergey Belyavsky, 2019 Busoni Competition
Skill level: God
I think Liszt made this just so he can give the sheet music to some pianists and scare the heccing world out of them
2019 someone?
Btw 00:00-00:01-11:01 is my best moment
this piece is stil easier than the typical hardness of Liszt
Spring Nuance this is the only piece he wrote that he couldn't play
Polo 10k he was plated this a lot, but he was unable to play this with the original tempo wich is a bit faster than this, but he played this btw.
Played*
Where did you get that information? He could play it perfectly. He's failed to make it a popular concerto finale, but he's never failed to play it.
Franz Liszt oh, maybe I was wrong because I cant really remember where I read that (maybe in the video of valentina lisistsa playing this song in the street)
GUYS! That's not the hardest Liszt piece! Because a lot of people think this. There are a lot of pieces harder of this like the paganini etudes (1838 version) Number 6 and 4 or the Grand' Fantaisie de Bravoure sur la Clochette de Paganini.
1:51 is N for No for my useless hands.
8:23 also
I really want to see him playing this just to see his teqhnique.
6:58 feux follets
At 7:48 wat note value is that? The triplet sounding rhythm. It’s also at 8:26
5 years late but a quaver (1/8) followed by 2 semiquavers (1/16) and another quaver in the end
*exhales harshly* only liszt....
this man is crazy
My forearms hurt watching this, like from fingertips to elbows just feels pain watchinf this imagining playing it. Ouch.
I think people say that this piece was hard cause the length and also on how "hard" this piece is.For anyone who want to play this piece i recommend to strength youre hand muscles,cause itll be LOONG and alot of HARD parts goodluck ;)
True virtuoso
3:57..................... O.o mind fart
Mozart sonata k.545 xD
Gustavo Felix That was what I was thinking. XD
ahh.. the long journey has finally come
1:04 give up
10:56 BEAT DROP
9:56
So this is the dark souls of piano pieces
I always feel like Liszt is making pieces so hard to play on purpose. This piece could've had the same rhythm and the same tone even if he didn't add these unnecessary octaves and other hard irrelevant bits. Look at some of Beethoven's work. The actual sound of the piece is so comforting and great, but the piece itself isn't so complicated like the very famous and relaxing piece: Fur EliseHowever, Liszt adds all these extra notes to make the piece harder than it should be... Maybe Liszt just hates pianists and wants to create the hardest piece that no one can play lol.
I know. Many bits in this pieces could be simplified though.
That's the point. Liszt was a virtuoso. His pieces are made to show off.
I know, but, why does he make his pieces so complex? Let's be honest, there are some notes in this piece that are not needed.
Majed Kalaoun yeah it could be, but on the other hand maybe he gotten an extra ordinary thinking, to express more of his inside.
Liszt was arrogant, like Mozart. Except Liszt took pride in composing pieces that could only be played by him.
0:58 telepot?
Crossover the hand...
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7:30 i only want to learn this part of the song only to A.) laugh at myself and b.) express my hatred to strangers
One of Liszt's "easier" pieces
No it's actually one of the hardest
I think liszt was on drugs!
probably
+Franz Liszt epic! You loved to show off right ?
+Angel Ferreira yup. that was the power of composers. talent
I need to add 5 extra pairs of hands on my shopping list
You mean "Chopin Liszt"? :)))
After over 5 minutes
OK liszt what now?!
5:46
What? Not ramming 30 keys per second? Nice sounds?
6:50
Ah shit here we go again
why even bother putting this together? I assume if you can play this you already learned how to read sheet lol
well, Im busted :P
+Dinkelstein Kerman I know how you feel because, 'til recently I too used midi files to learn pieces, but than I learned to read sheet. You will not believe how much easier it is to learn pieces if you can read it
thebenna beast I call BS
honestly, I don't really watch these for help w/ sheets (although they are useful sometimes) -- they just look beautiful on their own...
Chris Benna Can you play this really? I only know one pianist that can do it
If you can show me a video, i really want to hear other version of it
1:31 (drags left hand across bass keys)
It's like the combination of Grand Galop, Feux follets and La campanella. Pure hell
What is the hardest part of this beautiful piece?
tripple octave jumps my dude
Bo Bramer where?
like 0:45 ish
Bo Bramer Ugh I find this piece to be so over rated because of valentina lisistas description in her piece. Im not annoyed by you but this piece isn't nearly as hard as most people think. That part is hard, but I can play it pretty easily. Many people say this piece is the hardest piece ever, ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE. All the reminiscences and the 1838 paganini etudes 3 4 and 6 and LA CLOCHETTE are WAY harder than this. Now that my rant is over, my point is that I'm tired of people saying that the" triple" octave jumps are nearly impossible. They are quite easy to the crazy jumps in 1838 paganini 6.
yeah i totally agree with you its too overated
2:17 the hand switch for shits and giggles made me laugh
My hand imploded!
Why?