The most beautiful piece of piano music

[Etude]

Gulistan.

Yeah it's already been said but it needs to be said again.

[pies]

John Adams Phrygian Gates

[camstrings]

Tarrega's Recuerdos de L'Alhambra. Trouble is was written for guitar, but perhaps there is a piano version? (There exists a violin version.)
Failing that,  Liszts arr. of Beeethoven 6 2nd mvt. Try Glenn Gould's recording.
Strictly piano: Strauss op3 no.1

[ahkow]

Ketelbey's works aren't that bad..

[thracozaag]

Tarrega's Recuerdos de L'Alhambra. Trouble is was written for guitar, but perhaps there is a piano version?

 There is now 

[thalbergmad]

There is now 

Not just piano either.

If you have written one Mr Koji, can i have a copy please .

Thal

[kelly_kelly]

Debussy: Ballade
                Les sons et les parfums toument dans l'air de soir         
                D'un cahier de equisses

Chopin: Ballade no. 2 (I love the opening theme...)
             Nocturne op. 48 no. 1
             Etude op. 10 no. 3
             Etude op. 10 no. 11
             Etude op. 25 no. 1

Scriabin: Many of the op. 11 preludes

Mozart: Many slow movements, especially K. 545, K. 310, and K. 457
             Rondo in A minor, K. 511

Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses

Ravel: Pavane pour un infant defunte

And the Bach-Busoni Chaconne strikes me as one of the most sublime pieces ever written. The original, on violin, is equally amazing.


That's just off the top of my head...

[dnephi]

Suicidie in an airplane

[quasimodo]

There is now 

I'm very curious too!
I play it on the guitar but I'm very intrigued about how one would tranlsate the tremolo in the melody for the piano. If it's 'as is' then it must be playbale by only a happy few pianists...

[learner of liszt]

Liszt - Liebestraum no. 3
Liszt - Un Sospiro
Alkan - Barcarolle Op. 65 No. 5

[db05]

So far I find these most beautiful:

Chopin - Prelude in Db "Raindrop"

Scarlatti - Sonata in Fm K183
Sonata in Bm K197

Albeniz - Leyenda

Granados - Spanish Dance No. 5

And these works by "anonymous," my favorite composer (maybe there's a piano transcription somewhere)
Romance de Amor
Londonderry Air
Spagnoletta

[akonow]

Alkan:

Alleluia

Chopin:

Wiosna
Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1
Étude Op. 25 No. 1
Waltz No. 17

Liszt:

Widmung
Valse Impromptu

Rachmaninoff:

Prelude Op. 23 No. 4

Satie:

La Diva de L'Empire

Scharwenka:

The first movement of the first sonata
Eglantine Waltz

Schubert:

The Trout Quintet
The Rosamunde Theme
Impromptus Op. 90 No. 2 and Op. 142 No. 2
Ständchen

Scriabin:

Étude Op. 2 No. 1

[pianisten1989]

Hmmm... some has already been said but Chopins C-minor nocturn no 13, is really beautiful

[healdie]

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 2nd movement
Schubert - Impropmtu No. 3
Brahms - Cappricio Op. 116

[pwincess05anime]

The most beautiful compositions in my eyes are
River Flows in You  by Yiruma
FairyTale by Guang Liang
Painted Heart Ost from the film Wa Pei (painted Skin)
xoxo

[scandenavius]

Suicidie in an airplane

Yeah, yeah, ornesteins early works were really out there, and probably deserve to be in a least pleasant music to listen to category. But have you heard the first and second mvts of his fourth piano sonata? probably one of my favorite pieces of music all time. But back to the most beautiful pieces of music...

Liszt- Un Sospiro
Chopin- Nocturne in C minor
         - Op. 25 no.1
Tchaikovsky- Middle movement of Piano concerto no.1
Leo Ornstein- Piano sonata no.4 (1st and 2nd movements)
Debussy- Girl with the flaxxen hair

[communist]

Liszt:

Widmung

Do you mean the transcription of the Schumann lied? I agree it is a very nice piece.

[magio]

well there are,fortunately many brilliant piano pieces especially in classical music and of course it depends on somebody's taste and even mood whether they like them or not!Here are only some pieces that I always enjoy listening again and again!(10 composers):
1)Alkan
"Barcarolle" Opus 65 No 6
"Alleluia" Opus 25
"Scherzo Diabolico" Opus 39 No 3
2)Beethoven
"Sonata Pathetique" Opus 13 No 8
3)Chopin
"Ocean Etude" Opus 25 No 12
4)Glinka
"Nocturne Eb Minor"
5)Gluck / Sgambati - "Melody From Orfeo"
6)Liszt
a-"Un Sospiro" S144 No 3
b-"Consolation" S172 No 3
c-"Liebestraum" S/G541 No 3
d-"Transcendental Etude Vision" S139 No 6
7)Lyadov
"Three Pieces Prelude in B minor" Opus 11 No 1
8)Rachmaninoff
a-"Barcarolle" Opus 11 No 1
b-"Moment Musical" Opus 16 No 4
c-"Prelude in g minor" Opus 23 No 5
d-"Prelude in c sharp minor" Opus 3 No 2
9)Ravel
"Miroirs" C43 No 3
10)Schubert
a-"Impromptu in G flat major" D899 No 3"
b-by Liszt"Gretchen am spinnrade"
 

[djealnla]

If we're talking about beautiful as in "profoundly moving", then I nominate the finales of Beethoven's Opp. 109 & 111. There are of course many other candidates, but if I had to choose, I would pick one of those two.

[magio]

I would add domenico scarlatti sonata K466 in f minor!

[lisztrachmaninovfan]

This is rather outlandish, but Liszt's Litanies de Marie from his Harmonies Poetiques et Religeuses II. It is totally underrated.

The A-flat major theme toward the middle is absolutely beautiful. If Liszt included this work in his final version of his Harmonies, I think it would be pretty popular.

Others that are really touching are Liszt's transcription of Schumann's Fruhlingsnacht (it never loses it's beauty) and  Bartok's Three Hungarian Folk Songs from the County Csik.

And even the second movement of Bruckner's Symphony No.6 isn't for piano, it's still extremely beautiful.

[pianoplayjl]

Probably Chopin etude op 10 no3

[iansdigby]

Here are some more:

Chopin Etude Op. 10, No.3 ("Tristesse")
Enrique Granados, Berceuse from Escenas Romanticas (Could anyone who has had children not be moved?)
Liszt, Concert Etude no 3 ("Un Sospiro")

[david456103]

to me Chopin's Ballade 4, Liszts Sonata in B minor, and Liszt Reminiscences de Don Juan

[grandstaff]

Schubert-Liszt "Ständchen" is the only piece that has ever made me  , it is also the only Liszt transcription of Schubert's Lieder that I prefer over the original. So beautiful...

[emrysmerlin]

Mozart facile sonata K545.
Beethoven's Andante Favori in F Major, WoO 57
Bach's Chaconne
The bwv 565 fugue

[sasuke_10]

Liszt - Romance in E minor S. 169