My piano teacher once told me that Liszt had very large hands, possibly due to an endocrine habitus (not quite the full-blown disease, but minor qualities of it), which explains the sheer breadth of left hand chords especially in the middle of the piece. Fascinating.
Have a read of this medical article on Rachmaninoff (you should be able to access it but if not let me know) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1592053/
Older Franz Liszt once told to one of his students that many people believed he had a large hand span because of what he could accomplish at the piano. He then humbly reached for the keyboard and stretched his hand out. To his student’s shock, his hand comfortably reached a tenth, but not much more. True story.
Buddy... Chopin's etudes were much more melodic and beautiful to listen. Have you listened to '*Revolutionary*, *Torrent*, *Ocean*, *Winter Wind*, *Waterfall*' and some others. Even the Ballades are beautiful. Thus, difficult music like etudes can be beautiful. But no denying that Mazeppa is a beautiful etude, my favourite Transcendental Etude!
Goku Black LET'S JUST BE HAPPY LISZT NEVER LOST HIS WHOLE FAMILY DUE TO WAR... Well atleast the piece would probably continue to kill every war to this date
I like the geometric patterns, waves, triangles, diamonds, it forms on the scroll. His mind a machine-like sequencer - invents, stores, and executes motor control to hands.
This piece is one of my favorite piano pieces. I can't play this well right now. But, the fact that there is a recital about a year later, so I am planning to play this one...This is such a nice piece
Brando Calrissian That are a lot of classical pieces... And even with that thought and knowing Liszt being mentally crazy (He rote shitily hard stuff) I was literally disqusted seeing this
Brando Calrissian your not far off, this is an etude a "study" which is designed to challenge a pianist by presenting specific technical challenges. Haha except this is Liszt and he had something to prove with this set of etudes, so he sought out to make it one of the most comprehensive and challenging set of etudes ever composed up to that point in History.
These composers knew the piano all the way around & fucked up the piano, went hard on it! lol. If u think about there wasn't much shit to do in those days as there is today, technology, TV, so u know they we're bored outta their mind's. I feel like it is was more free in those day's to focus on playing the piano, that was the thing to do & this was a great panty dropping skill to acquire 😄
Liszt could probs play this with 8 hands tied behind his back with his head stuffed between two pillows after he chugged 7 wiskeys after not sleeping for 3 days straight while lying on his back taking a nap in a bath of ice
@@charlesmcbain8975 lmao Rach's etudes are in no way compared to Liszt's monstrosity. Don't be asnine ;) Also that's not what I meant when I said I'm scared of this piece, It's not the difficulty that scares me, it's how it sounds.
@Mathews196 Bro please... I have heard over 500 liszt pieces if not more all thanks to hyperion records. I'm very familiar with s140 and s137. AGAIN while they are harder for sure that's not what I meant when I said this piece really scares me. It's how it sounds honestly, this and Totentanz make terrified. It's like a horror movie.
Instructions to play this piece: Step 1: Lay horizontally on the piano Step 2: Have a chaotic seizure and hope you hit the right notes Step 3: Success!
As the notes at 2:25 are swinged and I can see 4 notes after the octave Liszt had to either play the octave with his 5 finger and 4 thinger and still take out another finger or he had to take out two other fingers... HOLY FUCK LISZT... Or he could just play these notes with one finger as he secretly is faster than the flash... ok not sectetly
Sometimes I wonder how the hell these amazing pianists are able to move soooo damn fast. I gotta learn more to play some. Especially Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G major Op. 23.
@@yannisvill6806 Because pianos of the time were not very well made. I'm sure if you got any modern pianist on one of those they would certianly break.
+Grace Allabison if you have good technique and a lot of time you could learn this piece. It is impossible to play this piece note for not 100% correct. This piece is one of the if not the most difficult piece ever written for piano
Beethoven or some composer must've made him go ssj when he made this. Whoa Now I'm REALLY interesting in their beefs back then. This were diss tracks on piano infused with passionate rage. That is indeed my perception.
lol where did u come up with that concept? While I agree that Liszt must have been a phenomenal pianist, there is absolutely no basis for believing that a composer is the best player of his own compositions. I've composed a number of pieces, but I'm sure a concert pianist will be able to play them better than I do no doubt.
I'm not gonna say you're wrong, but I think there is an interpretive aspect to every piece. A good composer puts whatever he wants on paper (notes, rhythm, suggested tempo, dynamics, etc.) so the player knows the big picture of what a composer's looking for. The rest is all up to the player. Not sure if you're familiar with Islamey by Balakirev. It's a really difficult piece, and even the composer said during his lifetime that there are parts of the piece he did not believe he could manage. Liszt, however, was known to have sightread Islamey in its entirety without stopping, up to a very high standard too.
I feel like Liszt wrote music to be difficult just for the sake of it. Not that I think his music is poor, but it's lacking the real artistic beauty and epic quality you find in the works of Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Bach, etc.
What you just said.. is PURE bullshit. Anyone who studied music would appreciate the art, beauty and epic quality you find in Liszt. If you can't play it, that's not a reason to hate on it.
has nothing to do with playing it. I don't have to like every artist that I hear. I think Liszt as a composer is overrated. His technical skill is certainly not, let me be clear.. but to me his style sounds far less passionate than earlier composers that composed with finesse and not with simply crazy technicalities and key mashing. music is not always about how technical, complex or how difficult. that is only half the picture. the other half is the actual composition and the true quality behind it.
How is Liszt's music lacking actual composition and true quality? How is it lacking any passion and finesse? Idk how you can only hear "simply crazy technicalities and key mashing". I'm sorry that you're unable to see any deeper than the technical difficulties in the genius that is Liszt
+TheMathDieu I see it as extremism within music. sort of like technical death metal. where it relies on its technicality to make a point. It's done for that sake, just because they can, rather than actually composing something for true artistic nature.
My piano teacher once told me that Liszt had very large hands, possibly due to an endocrine habitus (not quite the full-blown disease, but minor qualities of it), which explains the sheer breadth of left hand chords especially in the middle of the piece. Fascinating.
Have a read of this medical article on Rachmaninoff (you should be able to access it but if not let me know)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1592053/
Older Franz Liszt once told to one of his students that many people believed he had a large hand span because of what he could accomplish at the piano. He then humbly reached for the keyboard and stretched his hand out. To his student’s shock, his hand comfortably reached a tenth, but not much more. True story.
anyone complaining about the beauty of this music should see the definition of Étude first.
ikr! they r stupid
I love this etude it's very chaotic i like that
I guess for étude,,,, The most beautiful étude for studies was from Chopin I guess
Buddy... Chopin's etudes were much more melodic and beautiful to listen. Have you listened to '*Revolutionary*, *Torrent*, *Ocean*, *Winter Wind*, *Waterfall*' and some others. Even the Ballades are beautiful. Thus, difficult music like etudes can be beautiful.
But no denying that Mazeppa is a beautiful etude, my favourite Transcendental Etude!
@@mitalipandit2891 absolutely!
beautiful... really beautiful ,liszt was a master
Listen to Cziffra, or should I say “Liszten to Cziffra”
What? THE HECK Liszt calm down!
I love Liszt - he has the same kind of humour!
Lol Liszt is basically you, if you had lost a whole mark instead of just a penny.
Goku Black
LET'S JUST BE HAPPY LISZT NEVER LOST HIS WHOLE FAMILY DUE TO WAR... Well atleast the piece would probably continue to kill every war to this date
Goku Black he didn't write it because he lost a penny. He was humiliating somebody else raging over a penny.
thats not how u spell humor
I like the geometric patterns, waves, triangles, diamonds, it forms on the scroll. His mind a machine-like sequencer - invents, stores, and executes motor control to hands.
+Eyob Sisay (Edge)
Demoniac
I can play 2:14 - 2:16 perfectly
Lilli An lol
Ha good joke
Wow! one of the hardest moments in the piece
@Mathews idk but I'm really jealous lol
@Mathews lol samee
i have never played the piano in my life but i want to learn. this is gonna be my first song to attempt to learn because it doesnt look that hard
Your first Song, shouldn't be this. This is hard
+ekalem LP nah I think I'll be good actually. First I just need a piano
+Anthony Dotson that's not even funny. Why are you even here if you know shit?
+L3gioNTM Know shit? What are you referring to that I know and therefore shouldn't be here for?
Talking some bullcrap how easy this piece is. If you were trying to be funny then it only made you look silly.
Every time I finish a page of this song, I hear it in one of these programs and think "shit I'm only at the one minute mark"
+PMAPN Yup, you got a long way to go.
Viktor Andersson I actually finished this piece a few weeks ago, the pain and awe when I got to the end, beyond happiness
PMAPN You are not finished until you can play it with perfectly with performance quality.
Up to 4:30ish, I can play it flawlessly
PMAPN The great pianists in modern age cant play it flawlessly.
This piece is one of my favorite piano pieces. I can't play this well right now. But, the fact that there is a recital about a year later, so I am planning to play this one...This is such a nice piece
How’d it go? Do you even remember 😂
Liszt the best pianist of world!Omg impossible!
I've only recently been listening to classical piano, but for some reason I feel like he wrote this song specifically to fuck with the listener.
Brando Calrissian
That are a lot of classical pieces...
And even with that thought and knowing Liszt being mentally crazy (He rote shitily hard stuff)
I was literally disqusted seeing this
Brando Calrissian your not far off, this is an etude a "study" which is designed to challenge a pianist by presenting specific technical challenges. Haha except this is Liszt and he had something to prove with this set of etudes, so he sought out to make it one of the most comprehensive and challenging set of etudes ever composed up to that point in History.
These composers knew the piano all the way around & fucked up the piano, went hard on it! lol. If u think about there wasn't much shit to do in those days as there is today, technology, TV, so u know they we're bored outta their mind's. I feel like it is was more free in those day's to focus on playing the piano, that was the thing to do & this was a great panty dropping skill to acquire 😄
Yes liszt is crazy in most of his pieces lol listen to liebestraum no.3 if want a nice liszt piece
Too easy for me
True...
Franz Liszt
Can you tell me what you call hard...
I can play this with one finger and I need harder stuff
Liszt could probs play this with 8 hands tied behind his back with his head stuffed between two pillows after he chugged 7 wiskeys after not sleeping for 3 days straight while lying on his back taking a nap in a bath of ice
No shit, you're the guy who composed it
Me too!!
Liszt keeps bashing his head against the piano and it turns out to be a masterpiece that many ppl cannot play lol
I really feel scared of this piece
Eyhab Youssef ssonge*
Scared? If you're scared with these etude then Rachmaninoff etudes will leave you paralyzed
Rachmaninoff's etudes aren't that bad
@@charlesmcbain8975 lmao Rach's etudes are in no way compared to Liszt's monstrosity. Don't be asnine ;) Also that's not what I meant when I said I'm scared of this piece, It's not the difficulty that scares me, it's how it sounds.
@Mathews196 Bro please... I have heard over 500 liszt pieces if not more all thanks to hyperion records. I'm very familiar with s140 and s137. AGAIN while they are harder for sure that's not what I meant when I said this piece really scares me. It's how it sounds honestly, this and Totentanz make terrified. It's like a horror movie.
5:44 i really don't get the ending it's so random compared to other etudes
Instructions to play this piece:
Step 1: Lay horizontally on the piano
Step 2: Have a chaotic seizure and hope you hit the right notes
Step 3: Success!
Your body wouldn't be thin enough to play the keys
when she ask how your fingering skill are XD
+The_all_mighty_ no one can relate.
Despues de 4 años de intensa preparacion al fin logre este grandioso Tema..... Yupii ¡¡¡¡
Eso es genial, intenta el scherzo op 31 no 2 in b flat minor de chopin, es uno de mis favoritos, yo lo saque hace tiempo :)
The "How to play this song" starter pack
A PianoAn Asian
Douglas Alderweireld HAHAHAAH
Douglas Alderweireld
If you cant play it , at lizst you can hear it
If you play the Douze Grandes version, then play this one immediately after, you find this to be fairly simple.
it took me a second to realize someone actually managed to play this with 2 hands
I love this guy.
this is brutal
Liszt had two brains and four hands, confirmed.
I might be able to play 0:24 to 0:51 if I practice.
It is not hard to play. The hard thing is to make it sound good and majestic
Liszt was thinking lets make something imposible to be played just for fun and we are so idiots we try to learn it :P
its called skill not impossible other wise it would have stretches and notes more than what 2 hands could do
As you see i have placed this ( :P ) I don't mean literally what i say
ye but it just is not funny
Whatever you think
😂😂
As the notes at 2:25 are swinged and I can see 4 notes after the octave Liszt had to either play the octave with his 5 finger and 4 thinger and still take out another finger or he had to take out two other fingers... HOLY FUCK LISZT...
Or he could just play these notes with one finger as he secretly is faster than the flash... ok not sectetly
When you are 8 ⬆grade，you will know how two do this.
I can 1 hand do 2 octave
there is a rumour that once you learn this song you automatically become god itself.
I can only play up to 0:04 😭😭😭😭
This feels like a dub-step on piano
😍😍fantastic
this is just one part which changes during the piece (rhytm ,and chords)
I cant play it , but at Liszt i can hear it
Yo, what do they be smoking when they compose? I want some too.
Sometimes I wonder how the hell these amazing pianists are able to move soooo damn fast. I gotta learn more to play some. Especially Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G major Op. 23.
It's in G minor not G major.
Lucas M thats what I meant
+Eternal Believer
I am currently learning Prelude Op.23 No.5 in G minor by Rachmaninov
Lucas M lucky. Unfortunately I don't know how to play so i use these
+Eternal Believer
I know this may seem easier but you should really start learning how to read music.
I prefer Chopins music and style but god damn Liszt is , in my opinion, the craziest piano player in the history of music!
Wait ok I'm Not sure if it was how I paused the video but there were 12 keys either green or blue and umm I don't think that's possible.
GalacticGaming Some of the keys are suppose to ne held down, so you would need to use the pedal for that part.
You need unusually large hands to play it, there are a lot of people playing it on RUclips.
Finally, I can play 5:44-5:45!
Why is it every comment is either someone saying it's possible or someone complaining to the uploader?
I don’t know guy from five years ago.
3:19 - 3:29 feels like I am inside an airplane and it start to fly
its o_O AWESOME how many hAnds and do you need to play this .its
out of the world
No puedo ver el video :(
I honestly don't think this guy was a human
PiAnOmAn 745 In his performances he had 2 pianos on stage because he often broke one of them
lol
@@yannisvill6806 Because pianos of the time were not very well made. I'm sure if you got any modern pianist on one of those they would certianly break.
1:06 is wrong. it is not the same as later on in the piece.
does anyone know what program they use to make thia
synthesia
The most difficult part is 4:36 and it is impossible to play 5:00 with that speed.
Vladislav Roslyak no prob for me
trpd fndr cziffra did it
@@chrisbenna506 Yes, indeed.
@@chrisbenna506 Yes, indeed.
It's just arpeggios my dude.
if i can play la campanella would i possibly be able to play this?
+Technical Help I can play la campanella but I was wondering if I could play that piece then maybe I could play it.
+Grace Allabison if you have good technique and a lot of time you could learn this piece. It is impossible to play this piece note for not 100% correct. This piece is one of the if not the most difficult piece ever written for piano
@@chrisbenna506 Definitely not close to the most difficult, but does require formidable technique.
I find it impossible to try to fit this entire piece into a story
Mazzepa: Victor Hugo poem.
I'm no expert but I feel like Linzt is the Dark souls of composers. Very difficult and often impressive but not necessarily pleasant to play/hear
There are games way harder than dark souls,and I find the game more fun than most games I've played.
❤️
what's the name of the soundfont?
(Etude 3?)
this sheet music is very famous
0:04
Thanks!!! 😂😂😂
It's a genious
I Fricken Thought What I Made Was Hard Take That Back
Beethoven or some composer must've made him go ssj when he made this. Whoa Now I'm REALLY interesting in their beefs back then. This were diss tracks on piano infused with passionate rage. That is indeed my perception.
This is what it sounds like when you're entering the gates of hell.
loveharrydaily exactly same for me
can a human play this ? holy molu
yes pianists can play this.
Giga Toxishvili yea it's possible, it just takes a lot of time and effort
Liszt can
3:31 omg
Who can play this ? :P
+kindness Concert pianists. Duh
Search up Mezappa and you'll find a few people who can.
*Arthritis has abandoned the chat*
it can be possibel to play!
All people can play this (accept OKU)
@@xiguan5156 lol how do I get a response after 7 years?? Btw my spelling sucked
@@CalculoMental-jn6nt ñäø
That reach though.
I can play 5:21 to 6:14
Wow u really r an unstoppable boy
@Mathews lol
... my piano was broken by this tune
It feels a bit, electro, or something.
Like a 4th wall breaking video game or something.
Any idea or something?
The fuck? I'd probably kill myself trying to learning this. LOL, only Liszt could've played this fine like a piece of cake. LMAO
Think I broke my hand playing this. Lol (I did try, though - okay I might have missed one or two notes 😄😂)
This arrangement is not at all like the original the 4th Melody is suppose to be 2 cords in the middle of each rift
How the heck is this even possible!?!?!?
Because it is possible.
Liszt est un sadique !!
むずすぎ
*Jesus christ my hand is the size of a fucking walnut how the hell am i supposed to play this shit*
Ogres are like onions
406
people in the olden days had way too much time in their hands.... especially this 'Franz Liszt guy..'
Please give me the sweet release of death
Come the fuck on Liszt
I bet you it was like Beethoven: hers
gg hands
+David Learner Dude seriously? -_- nobody can play a composition better then its composer and how do you know were alive in Liszts time?
Lerner*
lol where did u come up with that concept? While I agree that Liszt must have been a phenomenal pianist, there is absolutely no basis for believing that a composer is the best player of his own compositions. I've composed a number of pieces, but I'm sure a concert pianist will be able to play them better than I do no doubt.
lygazvbx But the composer knows what he wants to get out of the piece.
I'm not gonna say you're wrong, but I think there is an interpretive aspect to every piece. A good composer puts whatever he wants on paper (notes, rhythm, suggested tempo, dynamics, etc.) so the player knows the big picture of what a composer's looking for. The rest is all up to the player.
Not sure if you're familiar with Islamey by Balakirev. It's a really difficult piece, and even the composer said during his lifetime that there are parts of the piece he did not believe he could manage. Liszt, however, was known to have sightread Islamey in its entirety without stopping, up to a very high standard too.
True. The composer knows what he wants from the piece, but he sometimes he cannot necessarily perform it in such a way.
its possible to play solo
И зачем это?
This cannot be played by a human,right?😶😶
이거친다니 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
This is just random banging of keyboard. Sounds like that
bunu çalacak yiğit var mı aranızda??Vivaldi 4 mevsimi babaannemde çalar.
.D ahahahah hakikatten bunu bizim fazıl say bile rüyasında çalamaz amk :D
Cziffra could have probably played it even better than Liszt could. Just listen to Cziffra playing this; its mind blowing.
nobody can play a piece better than the composer himself.
@Schuyler Bacn yēß
Can anyone actually play this?
Gottakill Gt I'm half way done with learning no.6 then maybe I'll try this one.
What
I feel like Liszt wrote music to be difficult just for the sake of it. Not that I think his music is poor, but it's lacking the real artistic beauty and epic quality you find in the works of Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Bach, etc.
What you just said.. is PURE bullshit. Anyone who studied music would appreciate the art, beauty and epic quality you find in Liszt. If you can't play it, that's not a reason to hate on it.
has nothing to do with playing it. I don't have to like every artist that I hear.
I think Liszt as a composer is overrated. His technical skill is certainly not, let me be clear.. but to me his style sounds far less passionate than earlier composers that composed with finesse and not with simply crazy technicalities and key mashing.
music is not always about how technical, complex or how difficult. that is only half the picture. the other half is the actual composition and the true quality behind it.
How is Liszt's music lacking actual composition and true quality? How is it lacking any passion and finesse? Idk how you can only hear "simply crazy technicalities and key mashing". I'm sorry that you're unable to see any deeper than the technical difficulties in the genius that is Liszt
+TheMathDieu I see it as extremism within music. sort of like technical death metal. where it relies on its technicality to make a point. It's done for that sake, just because they can, rather than actually composing something for true artistic nature.
I don't know how you fail to see the true artistic nature behind this.
Not really
OH SHIT WTF
Impossible
When you realize you have no talent whatsoever.
Mmm...ok, it's impossible.
this is so ez
EASY
what the hell wrong with you Liszt!!!