Help needed on La Campanella....

[mwf]

Hi,

Not sure if anyone can help me out, but I would greatly appreciate it.

In Liszt's La Campanella, around half way through the piece just before the cadenza type passages, there are trills for the 3,4 (or 3,5 etc..) fingers in the right hand whilest playing melody notes above. The notes immediately before you play the 1,2 finger trills with 5 and 4 for the higher melody, there is a 'tr' indication and a grace note put in right before the left hand quaver intervals in the left hand (which require a jump in the left hand to reach from the bottom note to the top). I cant understand why there is a grace note, and surely you are not supposed to play it whilest you are trilling in the right hand, because its fast alternating anyway, however it does not work out IMO if you trill that part with the g sharp and A natural, what I mean is the emphasis is on the A natural when trilling and the left hand does not fit in right, it feels wrong and it should be the g sharp that the left hand quavers start on surely, not the grace note A natural it says on the score-I know for anyone who is not familiar with the piece this is impossible to know what I am on about. It also happens just after the 1,2 trill part again.

Basically does the grace note before the 'tr' indication mean you play an actual grace note or does it mean you start the trill on the A natural and its just telling you with a grace note? There is no more grace notes used in the piece, why use them at these above mentioned points and no where else, most of the time the complete trill is written out in demi-semi-quavers to tell exactly what to play.

Thanks.

[liszt1022]

Looks like it's an actual grace note. If you consider the measure after it to be a continuation of the trill, then you wouldn't start on G# for the actual trill, because this would mean you're hitting F# as the last note in the measure which has the grace note, then F# as the first note of the measure following (assuming you're trilling in 64th note rhythm)

[grisell]

It might be a misprint, but I wuldn't worry about it. I just continue the g sharp/f sharp trill as 32-notes. If you look two bars ahead (c double sharp, d sharp quavers in the l.h.), it becomes obvious.