Fingering in Liszt Ballade nr. 2

[jkristiand]

I want to learn this piece.
Yet I cant even figure out how to best finger the main left hand ostinata.

Suggestions?

[Kassaa]

5213132121 - Up, starting un lower F#

212313125 - Down, starting on upper F#.

[jkristiand]

thank you, I'll give that a try 

[Kassaa]

Do not hesitate to ask any more questions about this wonderful piece .

[donjuan]

I use the same fingers as Kassaa suggested, but with 4 instead of 5.

but when it comes back in the second section, where everything is the same, but each note is a semitone higher, I use

5321313212 going up

and starting on f natural,

123131235 coming back down

I hope you learn it through to the end.  I hope you can tell from my recording that I had so much fun playing this piece!