Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!

[Jemmers]

Alright, everything below this is purely a JOKE. So please (please!!!) don't flame me. I already posted this under miscellaneous.

Ok here's the cheap trick to writing for a virtuoso. Take any simple children's song (and i mean SONG, ed...) like for example, Humpty Dumpty. Now, between every melody note, add a gajillion notes of the same chord. I recommend 7 for starters, 15 if you're writing for Horowitz. 31 if you're writing for Cziffra. Repeat for left hand if attempting to topple Islamey.

Add an accent to the melody notes. Done

Any other cheap tricks? Like say... double the tempo...

[Black_Key]

Remember that every melodic note should be put in octaves

[allchopin]

...while every non-melodic note should be encompassed with thirds, or preferably measures containing more accidentals than notes...

[cziffra]

there's always the thalberg trick of having arpeggios in both hands and a melody played with the thumbs.  why not have the arpeggios played with rapidly ascending and descending chords?  

[eddie92099]

why not have the arpeggios played with rapidly ascending and descending chords?  

As in the original version of Liszt's Paganini etudes,
Ed

[cziffra]

i keep hearing about how there were original paganini etudes...are they still available or did they vanish from existence?  i can't seem to be able to find them.  what is the story behind them?

[eddie92099]

https://store.yahoo.com/doverpublications/0486258165.html,
Ed

[fanaticalpianist]

I have the pdfs to the Original Paganini Etudes and the mp3 to the original version of La Campanella, it is quite interesting  E-mail me if interested.