One of my favorite pieces, I managed to play it a couple of years ago and gosh, I worked so hard! I don't know if it is THE hardest piece ever, but it is surely one of the hardest (to be honest, I struggled more to play Alkan's "Chemin de fer" étude than this one).
Lisztomaniac Yeah I know, the main difficulty for me was the tempo, but after a bunch of practice hours I managed to play it ahah! Actually, I have insanely big hands, I can reach a 13th (I red somewhere that Rachmaninoff's hands was the same size haha)
@@dog9yearsago122 this set of études probably has the 2 hardest pieces of liszt's that are under 7 mins. There are a few of his pieces, all of which are longer than 10 mins, but are harder than the études from this set(except maybe 4b). Some of his douze grande études could also compete with these for the hardest liszt pieces under 10mins, and so can the 3rd étude from s140 (This set).
Can someone knowledgable help me so obiosly he made s.141 as playable alternative but could he actually play this as fast and perfect back in the day dose anyone think
THE jake360 If we look at the fourth etude in the tempo we see in Synthesia videos, I think that since its straight up inhuman it shouldn’t be considered a truly hard piece.
Lisztomaniac not considered hard? what?! and i believe that liszt might have been able to play it if his hands could reach a 13th but i don't know anyone with hands that reach beyond a octave
THE jake360 Please read the full reply, I mentioned that since its humanly impossible it shouldn’t be considered a hard piece for solo piano. And I don’t know why you didn’t see anyone reaching beyond octaves, just listen to top pianists playing Rachmaninoff and you will. Also I’d be glad to mention that as a pianist I can play 10th-11th
THE jake360 A handspan is the maximum your fifth and first finger can reach when you fully stretch them. In years of practice, your handspan may not change a lot but your hands will eventually get more flexible. I’d admit that other than asian ex-prodigy girls, theres no pianist who can play less than a 7th-8th. Alkan’s Le Preux doesn’t have an extremely hard technique contained in the piece other than it being long, technically hard and in a really fast tempo. I think that a piano student (university level) would play it in the defined tempo, but they most likely won’t because Alkan’s Le Preux is musically not sufficient to play as most of the hard level Liszt and Alkan pieces its nothing more than a technical show-off, and someone’s abilities of music would be preffered to be tested both technically and musically using a Chopin Etude or a transcendental etude by Liszt at maximum, most likely they would prefer the Feux Follets or Mazeppa.
Zan yao Nok if you’re talking about this version of the 6th etude then they don’t even compare, this one is much more technically difficult than any of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Mine is probably this one, I know he didn't *_made_* it, but I still love it. By the way, your videos are *_EXTREMELY_* high quality, especially for only having that many subscribers!
Thank you for your very kind comments, I’d not consider my videos *extremely* high quality but they’re qualified to be above average. (And can be considered weak compared to Synthesia content creators such as PianoCzar or Eppur) This piece is basically made by Liszt, the themes aren’t and it’s pretty good but I can’t really rate it above Liszt’s monumental works (Such as the ones I named above, additionally Don Juan, Norma or Tannhauser piano transcriptions of him can be considered monumental too) This etude is also one of the pieces Liszt has sacrificed musicality for technique, but it’s an etude so- no problem, Liszt!
WayToVirtuoso After reading your comment, I gave the piece (which of it I never heard before although I’m named Lisztomaniac) a listen. Well, unfortunately, I didn’t really like it and wouldn’t consider it my favorite piece, it’s kind of weird and I didn’t hear musically interesting passages as I do in the Liszt pieces given above. But after all, music is all taste! Edit: Nice channel btw :)!
Isn't the 4th etude of the set somewhat harder than this? Though these two are quite possibly the most difficult "short" pieces (under 10 minutes) of the entire 19th century.
Well, I wondered why you've commented when you wrote this, and now I realised that I have a long-lost twin brother fighting for the ideology of glorious Lisztomania.
Giving an example from 1:23, meanwhile you're playing the chord with the notes f-g sharp-d-higher f hold the pedal and jump on the higher chords g sharp-b-d-f
3:35 the legendary part
It looks pretty mehh after the previous variations ngl
@@Hi-hk5eg yeah but it is the legendary part
Pretty good.
Franz Liszt fr bro, chill. What you expecting from us? Grow another 7 hands?
Why did you change ur pp bro
Indeed
Youuuuuu!
The bottom of the description says: WARNING: Do not try this at home LOL
Well I broke the law
@@yorkzie7593 you also broke your hands
Yeah I broke the law too lol. I also succeeded so um…
Finally a high quality version of s 140
Noncubercubecubingcuber yes
One of my favorite pieces, I managed to play it a couple of years ago and gosh, I worked so hard! I don't know if it is THE hardest piece ever, but it is surely one of the hardest (to be honest, I struggled more to play Alkan's "Chemin de fer" étude than this one).
Charles Valentin Alkan This piece isn't the biggest problem unless you have a little hand, actually you need to be able to press tenths.
Lisztomaniac Yeah I know, the main difficulty for me was the tempo, but after a bunch of practice hours I managed to play it ahah! Actually, I have insanely big hands, I can reach a 13th (I red somewhere that Rachmaninoff's hands was the same size haha)
Charles Valentin Alkan It's believeable, you must be playing the left hand notes in 1:59 like they're octaves!
Charles Valentin Alkan you are fake!!!
Alkan was french... Il me semble donc que parler français -enfin écrire en l'occurrence- est une bonne manière de vérifier lequel de nous est le vrai.
Liszt does love his octaves. 😏
check out his hungarian rhapsody no 6
I do.
This makes the mazeppa etude look like a piece of a cake and that's saying a lot!
This is probably his second hardest work
1k subs with no videos with no videos His first is obviously Etude 4 1838
Perhaps yup
@@dog9yearsago122 this set of études probably has the 2 hardest pieces of liszt's that are under 7 mins. There are a few of his pieces, all of which are longer than 10 mins, but are harder than the études from this set(except maybe 4b).
Some of his douze grande études could also compete with these for the hardest liszt pieces under 10mins, and so can the 3rd étude from s140 (This set).
dhruv sawant I agree but the reason why I think this is his second hardest work is mostly cuz of the dam jumps at that speed at 2:46
3:35 is the part we all waited for
No
i would like the version for humans please
S. 141
Joke of the year.
@Qafar Quluzade hmm
This is for humans.
@@franzliszt8600Ok, ima try it
I approve
Oh, hello there!
hi franzie
@@qalaphyll no
@@ValzainLumivix ok
@Mathews196 indeed
0:20
2:49 h
You know why Liszt is not human as I suspected? Liszt is Hungarian for 'flour', he was a flour who could play the piano, not a human.
Lol nice joke😂😂😂 But yeah it is Hungarian for "Flour"
i just realized this is a theme and variations
ig ill put the variations here
0:05 - theme
0:30 - variation 1
0:46 - variation 2
1:11 - variation 3
1:27 - variation 4
1:43 - variation 5
1:59 - variation 6
2:15 - variation 7
2:35 - variation 8
2:50 - variation 9
3:06 - variation 10
3:35 - variation 11
4:12 - coda. notice how the lh voice here mirrors the main theme
So this is your channel
hero boy Yes..
No his dad
Good! Better syntesia piece
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Can someone knowledgable help me so obiosly he made s.141 as playable alternative but could he actually play this as fast and perfect back in the day dose anyone think
shouldn't the fourth etude be harder (1838ver)
THE jake360 If we look at the fourth etude in the tempo we see in Synthesia videos, I think that since its straight up inhuman it shouldn’t be considered a truly hard piece.
Lisztomaniac
not considered hard? what?!
and i believe that liszt might have been able to play it if his hands could reach a 13th but i don't know anyone with hands that reach beyond a octave
THE jake360 Please read the full reply, I mentioned that since its humanly impossible it shouldn’t be considered a hard piece for solo piano. And I don’t know why you didn’t see anyone reaching beyond octaves, just listen to top pianists playing Rachmaninoff and you will. Also I’d be glad to mention that as a pianist I can play 10th-11th
Lisztomaniac
oh ok. im a noob so i never knew about the handspan thing
but alkan le preux is also hard but at least its not impossible
THE jake360 A handspan is the maximum your fifth and first finger can reach when you fully stretch them. In years of practice, your handspan may not change a lot but your hands will eventually get more flexible. I’d admit that other than asian ex-prodigy girls, theres no pianist who can play less than a 7th-8th. Alkan’s Le Preux doesn’t have an extremely hard technique contained in the piece other than it being long, technically hard and in a really fast tempo. I think that a piano student (university level) would play it in the defined tempo, but they most likely won’t because Alkan’s Le Preux is musically not sufficient to play as most of the hard level Liszt and Alkan pieces its nothing more than a technical show-off, and someone’s abilities of music would be preffered to be tested both technically and musically using a Chopin Etude or a transcendental etude by Liszt at maximum, most likely they would prefer the Feux Follets or Mazeppa.
Liszt etude 6 and Hungarian rhapsody which one is harder
Zan yao Nok if you’re talking about this version of the 6th etude then they don’t even compare, this one is much more technically difficult than any of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
@@rochoa7408 even the s.141 is marginaly harder than hungarian rhapsody no 2 imo ( have played both but not s.140/6)
Sounds somewhat jazzy but I like it lol
Why does 3:35 sound kinda swingy haha
Lisztomaniac, which Liszt piece is your favorite?
Spanish Rhapsody or Sonata in B minor
Mine is probably this one, I know he didn't *_made_* it, but I still love it.
By the way, your videos are *_EXTREMELY_* high quality, especially for only having that many subscribers!
Thank you for your very kind comments, I’d not consider my videos *extremely* high quality but they’re qualified to be above average. (And can be considered weak compared to Synthesia content creators such as PianoCzar or Eppur)
This piece is basically made by Liszt, the themes aren’t and it’s pretty good but I can’t really rate it above Liszt’s monumental works (Such as the ones I named above, additionally Don Juan, Norma or Tannhauser piano transcriptions of him can be considered monumental too)
This etude is also one of the pieces Liszt has sacrificed musicality for technique, but it’s an etude so- no problem, Liszt!
WayToVirtuoso After reading your comment, I gave the piece (which of it I never heard before although I’m named Lisztomaniac) a listen.
Well, unfortunately, I didn’t really like it and wouldn’t consider it my favorite piece, it’s kind of weird and I didn’t hear musically interesting passages as I do in the Liszt pieces given above. But after all, music is all taste!
Edit: Nice channel btw :)!
Lisztomaniac by the way, do you have anymore projects coming:)
This is easy...
When u have a thousand hands
Lightning Fingers this is easy
For a robot
I have a robot, could I do it?
@@FBIchanYes do it
Isn't the 4th etude of the set somewhat harder than this? Though these two are quite possibly the most difficult "short" pieces (under 10 minutes) of the entire 19th century.
Yes, the 4b from this set is harder.
Nice
Is this the 1838 version
S. 140, yes.
Wait a second..... 🤔 🤔
Well, I wondered why you've commented when you wrote this, and now I realised that I have a long-lost twin brother fighting for the ideology of glorious Lisztomania.
Yeah, I actually really want to watch the movie «Lisztomania». I’ve already watched «Impromptu» which was about Chopin And a lil’ about Liszt
Mathews yes
This is harder than La Campanella
la campanella honestly isnt as hard as some other pieces, but still is hard.
@@Lagrimoso umm what?
2nd version of LA Campanella
(3rd etude in this series) is a lot harder then the famous one.
@@bait5257 i know, 1838 is crazy, but then again, the more famous one isn’t easy, still has some difficulty.
@@bait5257S. 140 is the first version not 2nd
@@charlesthomas5956 there's another one before that
sorry, I did not hear it right
Is this the version that Alexander Lubyantsev played?
Еveиiпg btw It isn’t, the one Lubyantsev played is S. 141
@@lisztomani4c is this version harder?
Еveиiпg btw It certainly is..
Easy.
It's an alright piece I guess. Now where did ya hide that third hand of yours again?
Why you have so few subs
Hey, can i ask something?
Lisztomaniac haha
How are (left hand) 1:19, 1:22 and 1:23 possible with 5 fingers?
Usage of the pedals is sufficient there to keep the sound of lower chords and play the higher ones.
Giving an example from 1:23, meanwhile you're playing the chord with the notes f-g sharp-d-higher f hold the pedal and jump on the higher chords g sharp-b-d-f
Lisztomaniac ok, didn't know it. Thanks and have a nice dey
Big Smoke are you still mad at CJ for not catching up with the train? 😂😂
This is too easy.
4:46 Impossible to play...
What do you want to say?
@@arnavanand8037 21st century human hands aren't fast enough to play a chord after a trill like that!!!
nothin impossible
0:19
Leotube ! What about this part
no u
nice