Chopin vs Liszt: Comparing Two Piano Legends

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  • Опубликовано: 13 дек 2024

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  • @gregorypatriciaandjiyajais8819
    @gregorypatriciaandjiyajais8819 6 лет назад +188

    the late pieces of Liszt are meditative and deeply sublime Both composers are genius in their compositions

    • @Itibitydetsku
      @Itibitydetsku 2 года назад +2

      Not only the late pieces but his 1850s too(liebestraüm, Un sospiro, consolation)

    • @kasajizo8963
      @kasajizo8963 Год назад +1

      So are his early pieces like Apparitions, Annees de Pelerinage and Consolations

  • @karldavid3127
    @karldavid3127 8 лет назад +209

    4:17 "Just Liszten for example.."😂

  • @xanthe5401
    @xanthe5401 7 лет назад +1000

    In the supermarket, I didn't know what to buy because I forgot my Chopin-Liszt.

  • @KarasekUS
    @KarasekUS 7 лет назад +184

    You've summarized the differences (and similarities) in the first sentence: Liszt was Hungarian, Chopin was Polish.

    • @27duco
      @27duco 5 лет назад +8

      Liszt was Hungarian? But he didnt speak Hungarian .wtf who was he

    • @elgastidela7665
      @elgastidela7665 5 лет назад +15

      @@27duco Liszt spoke German (he was born during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it had lots of germanic influences)

    • @fm7551
      @fm7551 5 лет назад +5

      Liszt was born from german parents in Hungarian territory and Chopin was half French (his father was French)

    • @timkentonjr5764
      @timkentonjr5764 5 лет назад +1

      I think bugs bunny is the best

    • @catofcatamunca5231
      @catofcatamunca5231 4 года назад +7

      Sorry, I can't agree at all. This sentence is too simple! The truth is: Liszt was born in Raiding, which is in Austria. The time he was born Raiding was a part of the Hungarian kingdom, a German cultured village close to the Austrian border (which was no real border, just like the border between England and Scotland; Nebraska and Kansas or Bavaria and Hessen). His parents were Austrian, his mother Barbara Schlesak was from Krems, lower Austria, and his father Adam Liszt from Edelsthal. They all spoke German, never Hungarian, Liszt didn't know to speak Hungarian. When he became old, he learned Hungarian with difficulty, but was never able to speak the language fluently. He liked to call himself "Hungarian" on a whim, but he was only Hungarian by birthplace, never by culture. From his culture, upbringing, ancestry, Liszt was Austrian, and his native language was also Austrian / German. He received his musical education primarily in Austria (Vienna) and from Austrians (Adam Liszt, Carl Czerny, Anton Reicha), later in Paris, France. His music is never Hungarian, (but it has Hungarian, Austrian, German, French and Italian influences). His first contact to Hungary and Hungarian culture was as an adult, when he came to Budapest to give a concert. And Chopin was half a French, his father Nicolas came from Lothringen, (today in France) became a citizen of Poland and brought the french culture into the family. Chopins mother Justyna Krzyzanovsky was polish, and Chopins music includes both parts: french and polish, with italian influences (Chopin admired Bellini and Donizetti) and Austrian elements (waltzes). It was funny that Chopin never knew the french language perfectly, though his father came from Lothringen and Chopin lived half of his life in France.

  •  6 лет назад +62

    All Chopin needed to move your deepest emotions and make you feel feelings you didn’t know existed, was a piano. That’s how great he is. That’s why musicians around ages and throughout time regard him as the continuity of Mozart.

  • @joshlau9279
    @joshlau9279 7 лет назад +305

    Why am I watching this I play the violin.
    Im with Chopin.

  • @manuelgasse
    @manuelgasse 6 лет назад +15

    I love so many different styles of music from metal to classical. But Chopin’s music is what moves me the most. I absolutely love EVERY NOTE of Polonaise Heroic in Ab. It’s perfection.

  • @mynameisbob7059
    @mynameisbob7059 7 лет назад +514

    How to play like Chopin
    Step 1: throw the metronome out the window

    • @kirkwahmmet8406
      @kirkwahmmet8406 5 лет назад +31

      My name is Bob
      *GLENN GOULD WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

    • @divisix024
      @divisix024 5 лет назад +51

      Chopin's tempo rubatos are never throwing the tempo away completely

    • @zell4412
      @zell4412 5 лет назад +4

      you are correct

    • @hamzademir3093
      @hamzademir3093 5 лет назад +13

      welp no he isnt chopin always had a metronome on his piano

    • @miger38
      @miger38 5 лет назад +4

      yeah right, we've got metronom in our blood, hehe..at liszt we know how much drink to get drunk..

  • @richfinn2126
    @richfinn2126 6 лет назад +192

    Chopin is playable!!! That’s the difference lol

    • @darkhafgor
      @darkhafgor 4 года назад +25

      And better imo

    • @kofiLjunggren
      @kofiLjunggren 4 года назад

      True

    • @Chic4rely
      @Chic4rely 3 года назад +2

      That's not true

    • @Chic4rely
      @Chic4rely 3 года назад +15

      Liszt pieces looks harder than chopin pieces but chopin has more illegualr rhythms, tempo and lots of legato techniques.

    • @bernardmolan2976
      @bernardmolan2976 3 года назад +3

      A think Liszt's unplayable stuff is unplayable because it's nonsensical garbage. Did he know what a key signature was? Seriously a chimpanzee could have written some of that shit, though some of his stuff is really good, so he must have known at least something about music.

  • @jakubszczuka8060
    @jakubszczuka8060 9 лет назад +110

    if it comes to Chopin you have to be aware that it wasn't Paris to form him as a pianist, it was Poland, its villages, landscapes and culture what inspired him (sorry for my English)

    • @pb12661
      @pb12661 9 лет назад +1

      +Jakub Szczuka i agree. fwiw... ;)

    • @vongees3942
      @vongees3942 4 года назад +1

      He was basically depressed all his life

    • @logannslm1593
      @logannslm1593 4 года назад +2

      Chopin was indeed formed in Poland that's for sure, but he would've never ever become such an artist without France. France gave him all he needed to become the master he is and develop his art.

    • @lukas4132
      @lukas4132 4 года назад +5

      @@logannslm1593 I mean what did France gave him except from place to live in and and asylum to flee from war in Poland. Little known fact Chopin wanted to run away to Italy in the first place but it was impossible due to some issues

    • @isabelalzateestrada
      @isabelalzateestrada 4 года назад

      You're English is perfect, besides you explained your point better than most native speakers.

  • @dee-wc2hd
    @dee-wc2hd 6 лет назад +14

    From a person who doesn't study classical music. Just an ordinary listener who enjoyed listening to these great musicians. I vote for Liszt. I don't know why but Liszt and Mozart's music makes me want to listen to them more and repeatedly compared to the others. If you gave me an explanation why the others were better, I won't understand because I just prefer what I prefer and that's the same with the others, at least I think. Not everyone will study and understand music. Some just wanted to enjoy it without having any thoughts about the interpretations, theories, etc.

    • @randycunningham7318
      @randycunningham7318 Год назад +2

      I fit in your category regarding classical music. I have a passion, but no expertise. Nothing wrong with that.

  • @omarmhamdallah
    @omarmhamdallah 8 лет назад +49

    Master ! You're Videos are so awesome and so inspiring , I'm living in Egypt , in a poor neighborhood , Where You cannot even taste the meaning of the art of Music , You did make Me work and buy a piano to play some of those beautiful pieces , and try to apply the Technics You teach Us at Yours , anyhow , Thank You for being Here :) .

  • @chrisridenhour
    @chrisridenhour 6 лет назад +12

    Great video! Liszt's life and career spanned the late Classical, entire Romantic and early Modern music eras. So for that reason, it's hard to pin him down. For instance, while he wrote the famous Hungarian Rhapsodies in the prime of his life, he also wrote the highly original, stark and modern Nuages Gris as an elderly man. He has always been my favorite composer.

  • @larrysantos9496
    @larrysantos9496 7 лет назад +34

    They're both good. No need to compare.

  • @_Francis
    @_Francis 5 лет назад +31

    I absolutely, deeply, hugely love and adore everything Chopin. I like some of Liszt works, especially Mazeppa, but apart from Chopin, my favorite piano composers are Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy and Duke Ellington. I like things that totally, mysteriously hit my heart like they’re killing me, those things are more than music, they totally make you forget the technique and virtuosity of it all, they’re just pure emotion. With Liszt, it’s too often about technique and skills, IMHO. I sometimes imagine Chopin writing Etude op 25/12 for instance, telling himself “I’ll tell my piano the things I used to tell you, hear the fire in my chest, see how it’s consuming everything, destroying me” Then I imagine Liszt before writing a stunning piece, telling himself “let’s show these people how good I am”... I know I’m overdoing this, but I think when it comes to Chopin, nothing compares

    • @Kikirocy
      @Kikirocy 3 года назад +9

      You should listen to Liszt more. Everyone always brush him off as a mere “show off” but he is sooo much more than that

    • @GreenTeaViewer
      @GreenTeaViewer 2 года назад +1

      A man of taste. Medtner is highly underrated.

    • @JSBenjoyer
      @JSBenjoyer Год назад +1

      Mazeppa is in my Liszt's top 5 too along with Totentanz, Feux Follets, HR2 and Paganini etude 6, and I mostly listen to him, but I also love Chopin's and Scriabin's pieces.

  • @PianoScenesMoviesandSeries
    @PianoScenesMoviesandSeries 8 лет назад +147

    I would have to go with Chopin. His music made me feel things that aren't able to be put in the English Language, it was a new emotion. I never had this with anyone. Sure, bach is the greatest composer that ever lived, we can all agree. And it was perfect in every way. But Chopin... You fucking genius, you made me feel things, your music will always be number one for me. Until the day I die, it will be Bach started the music, and you perfected it. Big fucking love for you.

    • @Owlay84
      @Owlay84 8 лет назад +5

      Same here!!
      First in my heart there is Ludwig

    • @wayneleung7022
      @wayneleung7022 7 лет назад +7

      Léon Ruhe You need to go and learm French, read Lamartine's poetry and appreciate how Liszt TRANSCENDED the boudary between music and poetry in his works such as Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude.

    • @angweishuang
      @angweishuang 7 лет назад

      m k Ooh

    • @kathywoveris1074
      @kathywoveris1074 6 лет назад +5

      your choice of some words is inappropriate

    • @Deibler666
      @Deibler666 5 лет назад +2

      Chopin was a master of his instrument, the real poet as Horowitz stated, but as a musician he was incomplete. His powers of orchestration were very limited. On the other side, Liszt was a master of transcription and variations through technique. As a composer he was very weak, as he would make Schumann yawn at the première of his Sonata.

  • @dvamateur
    @dvamateur 7 лет назад +19

    Liszt did great transcriptions. His complete Beethoven symphonies transcription for the piano is better than Beethoven's version.

  • @richdisilvio4591
    @richdisilvio4591 7 лет назад +19

    First off, both composers were geniuses. And yes, a good overall comparison is that Chopin was more effeminate while Liszt was more masculine.
    However, quite sadly, most people only know a handful of pieces by Liszt, and many of those being his dazzling showpieces. The Hungarian Rhapsodies being such an example, as used here, which is not only unfair but unfortunate since this is what helps to misinform the masses.
    One only needs to listen to 'Au lac de Wallenstadt' or the intro to Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.2 to see the workings of a tender, dreamy artist. More importantly, those that say Chopin was more original certainly have no idea of the far greater influence Liszt had upon the course of music and music history. One only needs to listen to his pioneering Faust and Dante symphonies to see the pinnacles of the Romantic era, while Liszt’s late pieces set the seeds for the Impressionistic works of Debussy, the Atonal works of Schoenberg, while his paraphrases helped to spawn even the basic improvisational elements of Jazz.
    So, while Chopin certainly wrote works of great beauty and charm, Liszt was the pioneer that spawned numerous other musical genres and was far more influential and versatile, writing works that were raw, brutal, dazzling, yet also romantically tender, triumphant, transcending, mystical, and spiritual as his oratorios and masses attest.
    In essence, Chopin was a delicate earthly flower, a beauty to behold that is easy to please the masses and be savored, while Liszt was a Promethean thunderstorm that opened up the heavens and brought divine light upon the earth, from sheer radiant beauty to pioneering pyrotechnics to even reminding mankind of the tempestuous terrors of Hell.
    For more info google the Franz Liszt Site

  • @qqleq
    @qqleq 7 лет назад +110

    Chopin is so endlessly more subtle and lovely --- but Liszt can be SO deeply sad/tragic/rooted/folk where Chopin never went. Thank God I do not have to choose and no-one has to choose.

    • @xijinping1099
      @xijinping1099 7 лет назад +17

      If you think Chopin can’t be tragic, you haven’t listened to all of the nocturnes.

    • @TwelfthRoot2
      @TwelfthRoot2 7 лет назад +9

      especially op 48 #1 and 72 #1. 72 doesn't get enough attention, but it's one of the deepest and darkest things I've ever heard. I think too many people are judging these great composers based in this short video alone.

    • @irkira477
      @irkira477 6 лет назад +10

      qqleq2 sad? Try listening to his Nocturnes. Tragic? Try his Ballades. I don't know what you mean by rooted and folk, so I can't give you any example.

    • @mancubwwa
      @mancubwwa 6 лет назад +6

      Well, if "folk" means rooted in folk music tradition, than you need not to look enywhere else than mazurkas, which were based on Polish folk dancec, and a form than no one before Chopin used in classical music

    • @mc3newsmcocconcierge504
      @mc3newsmcocconcierge504 5 лет назад +2

      Someone hasn't listened to nocturne 15 op 55. While Chopin didn't live in tragedy, he often went dark and oh so heavy.

  • @chrisvuille9380
    @chrisvuille9380 7 лет назад +6

    In a few minutes it's impossible to do more than this simplistic presentation which showcases the best of Chopin versus Rhapsody #6 which is one of Liszt's most unidimensional works. I enjoy both composers, and they were both geniuses in their different ways. Rhapsody #9 for example, is far more colorful. Some of the later work, such as transcription of Gounod's Faust, are just as original and amazing as was anything by Chopin.

  • @Ranggalih
    @Ranggalih 8 лет назад +59

    I loved both! But I'm giving my heart to Chopin since his heart was buried in Warsaw.

    • @kerder8660
      @kerder8660 7 лет назад +7

      Ranggalih isn't burried is preserved in church. Interesting fact the guy who saved his heart was German nazi with polish roots he was responsible for destroying polish wwll Warsaw uprising & Warsaw itself but saved Chopin heart... Hehehe

    • @sumarniyplb7834
      @sumarniyplb7834 7 лет назад +1

      $$&& I loooooove his heart. &&$$

    • @elgastidela7665
      @elgastidela7665 5 лет назад +2

      @Epoxygleu the fav composer of Hitler was Wagner (Wagner was antisemit and racist too)

  • @bgarri57
    @bgarri57 7 лет назад +6

    Although Chopin's music is more popular, Liszt had a greater impact on the music of his century. He was instrumental in establishing musical romanticism, but he also helped bail out a great many composers including Wagner and Berlioz and many others. He was an extremely generous man who played many charity concerts. He put together a fundraiser for a statue of Beethoven and played Ludwig's Piano Concerto No. 5 at a charity concert for it. He taught and helped countless young pianists all over Europe. Liszt was a great pianist, a great composer and a great human being.

  • @DanielMartinez-nw1pn
    @DanielMartinez-nw1pn 4 года назад +5

    When the quarantine started, I devoted myself to listen to all the major piano pieces that Liszt composed. That's when I discovered "Harmonies poetiques et religieuses" and I must say that it's probably the most mature work for the piano that Liszt ever composed, maybe only surpassed by Anness de pelerinage. The "mature" period of Liszt composition style is truly amazing. But if I had to choose between him and Chopin... I'd choose Chopin. 😁

  • @DJStefandeJong
    @DJStefandeJong 6 лет назад +10

    I'm sorry to say but this is comparing apples and oranges ... if you want to compare the 6th Hungarian Rhapsodie to a piece by Chopin, the first thing that comes to mind is the Opus 53 Polonaise, but there are still others that capture a similar feel.
    Liszt also didn't only write showpieces, he wrote at least 700 pieces/arrangements, etc. of which some of those pieces consist of many subparts that are basically seperate compositions but fit together like a modern musical album would.
    Most of his compositions aren't at all that showman like or even remotely unplayable ... but very emotional and fragile ... tough to play, sure, but also very lyrical.
    Since I've started researching Liszt more and more he has taken my personal top one spot of composers together with Chopin rather than be below Chopin In terms of emotional content.
    Also his comparison goes for multiple pieces by Chopin whilst only comparing them to that same Rhapsodie ... how unfair is that ... This guy or channel apparantly really doesn't know much about Liszt and his compositions because if this is all he has for comparison he hasn't even scratched 1/700th of the repertoire (possibly about a thousand if you would seperate pieces like Vallee d'Oberman from the rest of the Annees, etc.).
    Maybe listen to pieces like Sancta Dorothea, Nuages Gris, the whole of the Annees, his pieces on st. Francis of Assisi, etc. Or his transcriptions like "Auf dem wasser zu singen", Erlkonig, and others before you make comparisons that don't even fit well ...

  • @Archiekunst
    @Archiekunst 8 лет назад +128

    Liszt wasn't just a showman. Why does everyone take that narrow minded view of him? He was also a great proponent of the new German school of music and greatly influenced Wagner.
    And while you were talking about lyricism why did you not pick the slow section of the B minor sonata from Liszt? Chopin ballade and waltz were good selections but you only chose one from Liszt thereby doing him an injustice.
    Also, the Hungarian rhapsodies were hardly serious music. They were written as a mere fancy.

    • @MusicByTomas
      @MusicByTomas 8 лет назад +1

      thanks

    • @MusicByTomas
      @MusicByTomas 8 лет назад +1

      I agree with you

    • @benca-alors3226
      @benca-alors3226 8 лет назад +5

      Or the 10th transcendantal Etude ? Or the 3 concert Etudes (with Un sospiro, la leggerezzia ...) ? Or the Consolations ?
      The video is beyond stereotype ...

    • @kezzamedic
      @kezzamedic 7 лет назад +3

      He said he could show examples that show the opposite.

    • @MusicalMissCapri
      @MusicalMissCapri 7 лет назад +6

      No, the rhapsodies were serious music. If they weren't, any schmo could play them.

  • @anthoniam8473
    @anthoniam8473 8 лет назад +44

    I love them both. But Wizard Liszt got me in his spells.

  • @edmondwong279
    @edmondwong279 9 лет назад +4

    Thank you Robert, for making this video and listening to viewers advice. Quality and engaging discussion as always. =)

  • @delko000
    @delko000 5 лет назад +4

    According to Chopin's pupil, Karol Mikuli:
    "Chopin was adamant about maintaining the tempo, and many will be surprised that he never took the metronome down the piano. Even during his largely traduced tempo rubato, there was always one hand, the accompanying one, maintaining strict tempo, while the other one was singing, either indecisively hesitating, or like in a passionate conversation, with a certain impatient ferocity, cutting in ahead of time, more emotional, liberating the truth of musical expression from all rythmic chains"

  • @charlescxgo7629
    @charlescxgo7629 7 лет назад +14

    They often only show Liszt in the pop star virtuosic light, but never understand the depth of Liszts serious composition. Try giving Liszt sonata a try, or his later religious works.

  • @donaldwycoff4154
    @donaldwycoff4154 9 лет назад +5

    Excellent, as always. Hard to compare these particular composers, but you did a wonderful job.

  • @shilloshillos
    @shilloshillos 9 лет назад +4

    I am glad you point out that your points can be proven opposite in many other examples. Like you said, its a lot of output to be consolidated into two examples. Another important difference I think is the fact that much of Liszt's music is programmatic and big in the Romantic tradition whereas Chopin's is almost 100% absolute and quite Classical in stylistic philosophy and refinement (but not in harmonic language or Pianistic pyrotechnics however)

  • @drkInxgud
    @drkInxgud 8 лет назад +55

    as many have said, only the performer will understand the emotional depth and genius of liszt's composition. chopin will often win the public's love as his music is more "melodious".

    • @mydogskips2
      @mydogskips2 7 лет назад +20

      I have played both Chopin and Liszt and strongly disagree with your statement.

    • @Someonece
      @Someonece 7 лет назад +9

      This comment doesn't really have much depth. Both statements are true for pretty much all Romantic composers. The popular works with good melodies usually win over the general public, but all the greats do have their deep works that only music enthusiasts and performers will appreciate. The public doesn't appreciate the 4th Ballade, Polonaise-Fantaisie, or the 3rd Sonata, yet they are some of Chopin's greatest works. So again, your comment is pretty worthless.

    • @darkhafgor
      @darkhafgor 4 года назад +9

      While it is genius, I see no emotional depth in most of his music at all. Chopin was clearly the superior composer, not because they are more melodious

    • @liviu445
      @liviu445 3 года назад +3

      @@darkhafgor there are more than one type of genius, Liszt was clearly a man of mathematics, while chopin was more on the manner of the heart, both good in their own right.

  • @Galantski
    @Galantski 5 лет назад +1

    I just checked, and unfortunately, videos of Chopin-Liszt, Beethoven-Mozart _similarities_ don't seem to have ever been uploaded.

  • @MrBarnerd
    @MrBarnerd 7 лет назад +12

    Liszt is like making a long lists of notes while Chopin is literally choppin' the piano!

    • @Uns46
      @Uns46 3 года назад

      Har har

  • @vaadwilsla858
    @vaadwilsla858 8 лет назад +8

    Liszt was hungarian yes, yet his hungarian Rapsodies for example, were by many hungarians considered as gypsy music, not hungarian- and Liszt only lived in Hungary for a small portion of his life after all (later Paris, Rome, Weimar etc.).

    • @benca-alors3226
      @benca-alors3226 8 лет назад +5

      As for Chopin, he wasn't stuck in Paris, he wrote the Préludes in Mallorca. And, unlike the video is explaining, he wasn't only about a "French style", otherwise he wouldn't have written Mazurkas and Polonaises ...

    • @vaadwilsla858
      @vaadwilsla858 8 лет назад

      Some good points. The view on the style of the composers is way too black/white in this video.

  • @mrnarason
    @mrnarason 9 лет назад +42

    Chopin is definitely much more of an enigma to me.

  • @m.a.3322
    @m.a.3322 7 лет назад +14

    Liszt is one of the most brilliant composers in history. On an equal level of Chopin, without a doubt. He was an absolute superstar virtuoso, of course, but he wrote some of the magnificent and profound pieces of music I have ever heard. He doesn't get enough credit. He's always labelled as a showman, but once you've really studied his pieces and listened to the bulk of his works, you'll agree that he was a true genius. Chopin and Liszt were definitely equals in terms of composing.

    • @darkhafgor
      @darkhafgor 4 года назад +1

      Chopin is miles better than Liszt in terms of composing, while Liszt was better in virtuosity

    • @p-y8210
      @p-y8210 4 года назад

      @Sparticus Booker nope nope nope

  • @Someonece
    @Someonece 7 лет назад +195

    Liszt praised Chopin so much for his compositions and elegant playing, and knew he wasn't as good a composer (Edit: at the time Chopin was alive). He also mentioned how every time Chopin gave a public performance, everyone in Paris wanted to attend since him performing for the public was an extremely rare occurrence. Chopin's playing and his music had the most snooty members of the aristocracy giving a standing ovation. Everyone who is choosing Liszt over Chopin for certain reasons, and even compares Chopin to Mozart, seem to not know much about his music (Edit: as Frankie Winters failed to understand, I meant comparing composers is pointless, I just want the other ignorant commenters here to know that they should not underestimate Chopin, and brush him off as a melodist and only a composer of 'pretty' music, but it was because of him and Beethoven that composers after them wanted to focus on deep solo piano music (all the heavy Russian pianists from late 19th/early 20th century is a great example)). He wasn't the light Romantic melodist you think he is, who is characterised by his Nocturnes and Waltzes. It goes much deeper. Listen to his full collection of Mazurkas, the 4 Ballades, Fantaisie Op. 49, the 3rd Sonata, and the Polonaise-Fantaisie to get to know the real Chopin.

    • @LCPD9111
      @LCPD9111 7 лет назад +1

      Who do you prefer Chopin or mozart?

    • @AtharvGoel
      @AtharvGoel 7 лет назад +2

      Im definitely not knowledgable enough hence im curious, why do people say Chopin is not comparable to Mozart or Beethoven?

    • @Someonece
      @Someonece 7 лет назад +9

      +LCPD9111 I haven't gotten into Mozart yet because he has such an overwhelming amount of music, but I know he was Chopin's idol.
      +AG Cuber I could never say that one is better than the other, I meant that they are completely different. I wasn't saying "even compares Chopin to Mozart" because I thought less of Mozart, but because the essence of Chopin's music is much different (even though he was heavily influenced by Mozart).
      I've been studying Chopin intensively for the past 2 years, and I now see him as a completely different composer. I refer to my last few sentences in the original post.

    • @wayneleung7022
      @wayneleung7022 7 лет назад +17

      and Liszt's contribution and genius in transcending the boundary between music and litterature?
      have you read Lamartine's poems and how Liszt interpreted it in his bénédiction de dieu dans la solitude?
      You seem to not know a lot about Liszt. He was a friar in a religious order, his works are more spiritual than the mundane 'romance' of Chopin. I love Chopin too but Chopin did not transcend art in the way Liszt did.

    • @rawr3122
      @rawr3122 7 лет назад +7

      Wayne Leung What makes Chopin better is his ability to produce superior harmonies and melodies than liszt

  • @JSBach-pd4yg
    @JSBach-pd4yg 6 лет назад +5

    Arpeggio vs Octave

  • @leonmaliniak
    @leonmaliniak Год назад +1

    HOROWITZ once said that CHOPIN was the greatest piano composer of all time because unlike many other great composers. he really " understood the piano "...meaning he understood it and made it do things like no other composer could, even LISZT.
    No other composition makes this more obvious than CHOPIN'S so called OCEAN ETUDE where the composition makes the piano sound like rolling waves with a beautiful melody pervading the entire piece.

  • @horatiodreamt
    @horatiodreamt 7 лет назад +84

    Chopin was the creative genius who told the world "Listen to my musical ideas". Liszt was the executant genius who told the world "Listen to ME play musical ideas".

    • @mokkaherrman1104
      @mokkaherrman1104 6 лет назад +17

      Actually, Lizt made much more piano songs. He was also famous because he was one of the best piano players to ever exist. But, still, he composed more than 1000 songs.
      No Wonder, his life was twice the lenght of Chopin.

    • @Boccaccio1811
      @Boccaccio1811 6 лет назад +20

      But don't forget that Liszt wasn't just a pianist... he wrote a shit ton of groundbreaking orchestral music, influencing composers like Wagner, Richard Strauss and Dvorak

    • @mc3newsmcocconcierge504
      @mc3newsmcocconcierge504 5 лет назад +3

      Luigi Mario Athletically, Liszt was a better piano player but both were the best of their time. In terms of compositions, namely piano pieces, I believe Chopin's genius trumps Liszt. I love them both but very different reasons. To me personally, I think Chopin was the best composer specifically for piano pieces.

    • @samuelrappaport6162
      @samuelrappaport6162 5 лет назад +1

      mokka herrman actually 500 of his works were transcriptions. Also Liszt was more famous because Chopin hates performing. Liszt lives it

    • @ibuprofen303
      @ibuprofen303 5 лет назад +5

      If you don't think that Liszt had musical ideas equal to Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, etc, then you are tone deaf.

  • @aToOoOoMboi
    @aToOoOoMboi 5 лет назад +4

    You can be confused with this comparison if you throw in Liszt - Love Dream

  • @foxfire7779
    @foxfire7779 8 лет назад +6

    1:43 Hungarian rhapsody 6

    • @logannslm1593
      @logannslm1593 4 года назад

      THANK YOU

    • @DanielMartinez-nw1pn
      @DanielMartinez-nw1pn 4 года назад

      @@logannslm1593 there's a video of the goddess Martha Argerich playing it. You're welcome 😁😁

  • @seongtaek84
    @seongtaek84 8 лет назад +2

    Excellent sounding Petrof. So much fun to listen to the differences between the 2 of favorite composers of mine!!

  • @chargemanken144
    @chargemanken144 6 лет назад +31

    Both are good but I'll go for Liszt. His music has more impact in my life than Chopin music

    • @jacksonleider3298
      @jacksonleider3298 4 года назад +3

      Beco Adao I’m all for Chopin but Liszt was the one who deeply innovated new styles and forms in music. I respect them both greatly

    • @darkhafgor
      @darkhafgor 4 года назад +3

      That's weird since Chopin has a "beauty" in his music that would be more suited to impact someone's life, but you do you I guess

    • @thatchysteak8270
      @thatchysteak8270 3 года назад +3

      @@darkhafgor Nah, Chopin has a better catalog overall, but Liszt has better and more impactful pieces, for example, sonata in b minor is better than anything Chopin can even imagine composing.

    • @bhaab4019
      @bhaab4019 3 года назад

      @@thatchysteak8270 thats bs and you know it.

    • @jaketang892
      @jaketang892 2 года назад

      @@bhaab4019 not rlly my guy, chopin got me into classical music, liszt saved my life

  • @youcouldntbemorerightbroia4016
    @youcouldntbemorerightbroia4016 7 лет назад +42

    My vote is Chopin

  • @wiktorjajcarz448
    @wiktorjajcarz448 5 лет назад +8

    I mean,why do you even compare them? Liszt himself said that he was a worse composer.

    • @atheism5284
      @atheism5284 5 лет назад +16

      Liszt gave praise very generously because he was a nice guy, but he never saw himself inferior to Chopin, because he just wasn't. I have yet to see Chopin write anything as enigmatically transcendent as Liszt's Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude.

  • @francismel4782
    @francismel4782 7 лет назад +3

    Which Waltz at @5:23?

    • @elliottgyll8453
      @elliottgyll8453 5 лет назад

      L'Adieu mazurka I believe, maybe it was a waltz

    • @adf1656
      @adf1656 5 лет назад +1

      Waltz l’adieu

  • @D_Mal_Music
    @D_Mal_Music 9 лет назад +13

    I think that we cannot compare among these "huge monsters" of music but, i also believe that Chopin was from another planet...not earth for sure!!!

    • @renoraksi8462
      @renoraksi8462 6 лет назад

      no he was from earth, he was born in "Żelazowa Wola, 46 kilometres (29 miles) west of Warsaw, in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, a Polish state established by Napoleon." taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin#Childhood

    • @darkhafgor
      @darkhafgor 4 года назад +2

      @@renoraksi8462 Bruh

    • @ieatbananaswiththepeel4782
      @ieatbananaswiththepeel4782 3 года назад

      @@renoraksi8462 please tell me you’re being ironic

  • @Lordran__
    @Lordran__ 7 лет назад +13

    Liszt is my favorite composer along with the great Beethoven

  • @brendadrew834
    @brendadrew834 7 лет назад +2

    This lifelong pianist/composer loves both of them. Actually, Chopin was half French...his paternal side. People have a tendency to forget that. Their gorgeous music is immortal~ and viva la differences as well as the similarities!!

  • @nickelliot3679
    @nickelliot3679 5 лет назад

    We tend to forget when these "classical" pieces were composed, they were contemporary music for their audiences. In that vein, with which contemporary composers can we compare these two men? Any suggestions?

  • @BenjiShock
    @BenjiShock 6 лет назад +1

    I return very often to the annees de pelerinage and the consolations. I also love some late works aswell as the piano sonata of course.
    If you don't think those pieces are poetic I don't know what is.
    For me personally chopin doesn't really have that many pieces I like to come back to but after all its just my personal taste.

  • @generalgrievous3731
    @generalgrievous3731 Год назад +1

    How many pieces do you wanna write in A flat major?
    Chopin: Yes

  • @ricocapili6990
    @ricocapili6990 Год назад

    Miss mom hearing on 5:30 playing Chopin since my childhood days ❤love that piece.

  • @rashintunes8030
    @rashintunes8030 3 года назад +2

    Liszt = Epic
    Chopin = Poetic
    I love both

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss 3 года назад +1

    Ah, the Adieu Waltz (5m25s). It's one of my favorite Chopin pieces.
    Fred

  • @nixon6929
    @nixon6929 7 лет назад +4

    Hey look my two favorite composers of all time in 1 video

  • @johnvant7984
    @johnvant7984 5 лет назад +3

    It’s kinda unfair to compare these 2 geniuses, because Chopin is so beautiful and lyrical same with Liszt, and Chopin Just has this feeling that you can’t describe, but yet, same with Liszt, his music is so different and unique, he can make stupidly difficult pieces sound so incredibly beautiful and that’s a skill in its own. I think they are both equal in my eyes

  • @chrisprice3099
    @chrisprice3099 7 лет назад +1

    There is a pub in Kent (southern England) called "The Brahms and Liszt".( Explanation for Americans: It is cockney rhyming slang for "pissed", which in England means "drunk".)

    • @boblewis4830
      @boblewis4830 6 лет назад

      What a profound addition to the discussion ...

  • @zampai
    @zampai 5 лет назад +1

    I will always be able to identify a Chopin or a Liszt. Chopin’s music instantly transports me to a musical and lyrical world while Liszt’s music reminds me of all the technical wonder the piano is capable of.

  • @liam5075
    @liam5075 4 года назад

    5:33 what is the name of this music?

  • @jimbaker6442
    @jimbaker6442 6 лет назад +7

    I love where in the beginning of some of Liszt's sonatas he lulls you into a false sense of serenity, quiet peacefulness, and relaxation and then explodes into a massive display of fireworks where the pianist gets to show off his or her technical prowess and pianistic chops ( depending upon of course, they have them).

  • @mambooooooo917
    @mambooooooo917 7 лет назад

    Whats the noise at 1:47 (I honestly don't know what it is)

  • @konosxatz1
    @konosxatz1 7 лет назад +3

    I love them both,however one thing i have to say is that,while both have made harmonic advancements in western music,Liszt tops this of with many "experimental" works,something Chopin never actually did.Also the Liszt concertos are way more advanced than the Chopin ones and on orchestration Liszt destroys Chopin.Finally I don't think Chopin has written anything on the magnitude of Liszt's sonata in b minor.(harmonically and musically talking).However chopin did set the foundations of the impressionistic works of Debussy and Ravel.(Liszt was more influence on neo-romantics and avant-guard)

    • @atheism5284
      @atheism5284 5 лет назад

      Listen to Liszt's Jeux de Eaux. He basically invented impressionism.

  • @marcsmith7789
    @marcsmith7789 7 лет назад +9

    And it should be noted that Chopin had a massive influence on Liszt as well. If you look at Liszt's music in the early 1830s to the music in the late 1830s, after he had met Chopin and his music, you see a big change. Part of that was the influence of Berlioz, but part of it was the influence of Chopin.

  • @ZbigniewLorenz
    @ZbigniewLorenz 7 лет назад +12

    Heah, Chopin was definitely inspired by French culture - especially when composing his mazurkas and polonaises :)

    • @stefanbernhard2710
      @stefanbernhard2710 5 лет назад

      Polonaises arent French

    • @delko000
      @delko000 5 лет назад

      Perhaps by his father, who was french?

    • @darkhafgor
      @darkhafgor 4 года назад

      @@stefanbernhard2710 That's the joke...

  • @grandbluepianistofthesky9469
    @grandbluepianistofthesky9469 6 лет назад +2

    Liszt is an astounding pianist, but very few of his pieces have the kind of fluidity and beauty of Chopin.

  • @judithreejones9545
    @judithreejones9545 5 лет назад

    Beautiful! So enjoy Your playing. Which of your teachers influenced you the
    most?

  • @denisgustavo19
    @denisgustavo19 5 лет назад

    What is the piece name at 3:31 ?? Thanks

  • @oldschoolchartist
    @oldschoolchartist 8 лет назад +37

    Chopin was an innovator whose music is full of surprises, riddled with little gems that take years to uncover. His themes are unique in their lyricism and tonal beauty. When Chopin calls for virtuosity it is always in service to the music.
    Liszt has his moments, but when he discovers something of real beauty he beats it to death. There is some fairly rich tonal character here and there, but it is usually sandwiched between something rather expected and plain. When one encounters the need for virtuosity in a Liszt work, odds favor it being their for its own sake.
    Chopin is a musician's musician. Many casual listeners will miss much of what he has to offer. Liszt is more than common man's composer. The average listener can hear him a few times and will know all he needs to know about the work.
    Liszt has nothing to compare to the Ballades and Scherzi of Chopin.

    • @HilbertXVI
      @HilbertXVI 7 лет назад +7

      oldschoolchartist I could replace all instances of 'Chopin' with 'Liszt' and 'Liszt' with 'Chopin' and the comment would still be valid imo.
      Anyways point is, that's just your opinion and I completely disagree with you. Clearly you haven't heard much of liszt's works

    • @bgarri57
      @bgarri57 7 лет назад +2

      Liszt wrote many things that compare to Chopin. His 'Funérailles' for one.

    • @xijinping1099
      @xijinping1099 7 лет назад

      La Campanella compares somewhat in difficulty to the Ballades, but not the story.

    • @AndreiAnghelLiszt
      @AndreiAnghelLiszt 5 лет назад +1

      @oldschoolchartist What a retarded comment. I'd like to see Chopin try and write something as numinous as the Bénédiction, as impressionistic and forward-looking as the Les jeaux ďeaux à la Villa d'Este (or the entire Troisième année de pèlerinage set for that matter), as devilish and incredibly programmatic as the 1st Mephisto Waltz or as illustratory as the Transcendental Etudes.

  • @beatlessteve1010
    @beatlessteve1010 6 лет назад

    what was the first Chopin piece the 8th lapulod???

  • @AbcAbc-oy5tb
    @AbcAbc-oy5tb 6 лет назад +2

    But no one can ignore this fact that Liszt was the most insane composer. He compositions has both beauty and insanity. He could have removed insanity but it would have disturbed beauty of his compositions. For me, Liszt is Best. His hungarian rhapsody 2 is world famous.

  • @haydenlloyd3377
    @haydenlloyd3377 3 года назад

    So very great explanations. Your expository speaking is wonderful. The music excerpts are beautiful.

  • @imok9208
    @imok9208 4 года назад

    Where is the last part of hungarian rhapsody no.6?

  • @ashleyyeum4947
    @ashleyyeum4947 7 лет назад

    Hi, you mentioned that you uploaded the video that shows similarities of different composers. What is the name of that video? I cant find it.

  • @adlib8096
    @adlib8096 3 года назад

    My technique is on level with say chopin nocturne 9.2. Is there any piece of Liszt i could try to play?

  • @jasmineyeo9697
    @jasmineyeo9697 8 лет назад +2

    wow you really catch each composer's style of playing very well :D

  • @vidback
    @vidback 9 лет назад

    I do enjoy this episode, but I would love to see videos by you comparing Bach's keyboard works with his contemporaries, and Bath with later composers.

  • @LudwigvanBeethoven2
    @LudwigvanBeethoven2 6 лет назад

    What is name of the song you playef at the end. Its very beautiful please let me know

  • @batuhankaya5837
    @batuhankaya5837 6 лет назад

    What is this piece name at 5:24 please can someone tell it I have researched always

  • @seohyunkim5655
    @seohyunkim5655 6 лет назад

    And where is the video you mentioned at the very end??

  • @preludio423
    @preludio423 7 лет назад +2

    I would have to go with both. I hate how people choose different favourite composers. Each one has a different strategy to piano. Chopin was more passionate and had more of a story with his songs.Beethoven expressed feelings. Liszt empowered music to a new level.The heroism, is great.

    • @boblewis4830
      @boblewis4830 6 лет назад +1

      No one with any artistic intelligence has to choose between different composers. You guys sounds like football hooligans arguing about their favourite team! (Schumann is my #1 - and not because he was a great pianist - but because he had very original ideas for his time - and was a troubled personality [like Beethoven] which I always think produces the greatest art.

    • @mjcs6399
      @mjcs6399 5 лет назад

      @@boblewis4830 Football Hooligans is the name of my new band. We play Hungarian Gypsy Death Metal.

  • @Ciaran55
    @Ciaran55 8 лет назад

    You should record HR6. I would love to listen to it! There is that super-cool vintage video of Martha A. playing it...

  • @fawadazizyaar9793
    @fawadazizyaar9793 8 лет назад

    please tell me, what waltz of chopin is it that he plays at 5:24

    • @tedpiano
      @tedpiano 8 лет назад +1

      "Farewell" Op. 69, No. 1 in A-flat Major

    • @fawadazizyaar9793
      @fawadazizyaar9793 8 лет назад +1

      Thx not all heros wear capes💪

  • @gabrielarenas2067
    @gabrielarenas2067 5 лет назад +1

    I'm a Liszt just because his music is my type, extremely hard but a enjoyable experience for me like when I play la campanella, the jumping rythm is hard but it's music to my ears.

  • @WorldofWandag
    @WorldofWandag 7 лет назад +2

    Liszt = Aragorn, Jon Snow, Captain America, Harry Potter
    Chopin = Legolas, Prince Oberyn , Dr. Strange, Hermione Granger

  • @zackebrorsson9374
    @zackebrorsson9374 8 лет назад

    Can you do Charles Valentin alkan vs franz liszt

  • @ADAMSIVES
    @ADAMSIVES 8 лет назад +4

    Very good thanks! I love Chopin and Liszt and this was very helpful.

  • @tillmanward8481
    @tillmanward8481 5 месяцев назад

    Funny that draws people to dissect those two, since they both appreciated Music. George Sand was first introduced by Liszt, and being friends to one and living with the other, I think She appreciated both...friend and lover...

  • @HayashiManabu
    @HayashiManabu 7 лет назад +14

    I've always liked Chopin better in general, but when Liszt shines through, he surpasses Chopin entirely. Take the Etudes for example, I enjoy every single one of Chopin's Op 10 and 25 Etudes, but for Liszt, some of his Etudes don't really click for me. But his Transcendental Etude 12 and Un Sospiro surpasses all of Chopin's Etudes in emotion and beauty. (In my opinion)

    • @sumikorbekv6266
      @sumikorbekv6266 6 лет назад +1

      not really, in my opinion

    • @0piumaeternum
      @0piumaeternum 6 лет назад

      Mikhail Tal un Sospiro was one of the greatest pieces i’ve ever heard😭😭

    • @dementoliszt5475
      @dementoliszt5475 5 лет назад

      I think the same, yes.

    • @darkhafgor
      @darkhafgor 4 года назад +2

      Heavily disagree, Liszt never scratched the surface compared to Chopin when it came to emotion and beauty.

    • @thenotsookayguy
      @thenotsookayguy 4 года назад

      Vision, No. 6 is an underrated masterpiece.

  • @franzliszt7939
    @franzliszt7939 8 лет назад +339

    Go team Liszt! Woohoo!

  • @oot007
    @oot007 5 лет назад

    Although my favourite piano piece is Listz Hungarian Rhapsody #2 I like Chopin better overall. I can listen to his etudes and nocturnes repeatedly and never get bored. His pieces brings out emotion and melodies like no other. He makes the piano sing.

  • @trucker4472
    @trucker4472 7 лет назад

    Where did you get that shirt?

  • @NX3R1
    @NX3R1 7 лет назад +1

    One thing i love about liszt, is the diferent ways to play the same song (like hungarian rhapsody 2 or mazzepa) thats pretty unique and funnier to play.

    • @mjcs6399
      @mjcs6399 5 лет назад

      Yes, Liszt was hilarious.

  • @johnmike1771
    @johnmike1771 2 года назад

    I'm going with both but Listz is my favorite at the end of the day the complex Hungarian rhapsodies and the complex pieces just hit home for me

  • @wincentywiewiorczak4114
    @wincentywiewiorczak4114 4 года назад +1

    Pozdrawiam z Ojczyzny Szopena i życzę wszystkim wytrwałości w ćwiczeniach, a jeśli wszystkim, to i sobie.

  • @gggabriel1998
    @gggabriel1998 9 лет назад +1

    Please consider Erick Satie versus Rachmaninov 😉

  • @Maximilian0011
    @Maximilian0011 6 лет назад +1

    there you go, so that estrin person is to say the difference between Chopin and List .... whats that is about to divide fans of those? is it not clear that these two musicians a VERY different ?

  • @AndreiaLuizaS
    @AndreiaLuizaS 5 лет назад +1

    É absolutamente lindo, maravilhoso de se ouvir 🎵🎼🌹