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Who do you like better as a composer?

Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt

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Offline scherzo123

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Chopin or Liszt?
on: July 18, 2012, 10:48:32 PM
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Bach Prelude and Fugue BWV848
Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.13
Chopin Etude Op.10 No.4
Chopin Scherzo Op.31
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Offline stoudemirestat

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Re: Chopin or Liszt?
Reply #1 on: July 21, 2012, 01:06:22 AM
Liszt.

Every single day of the week.

I think where their piano outputs are more or less a wash (and I much prefer Liszt here)...well Liszt wrote a lot more great music in other areas.

Great choral works like Christus, Psalm XIII, Missa Solemnis, Via Crucis, Die heilige Cäcilia - and many more works, both in the short and large scale.

Great orchestral works like Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo, Les préludes, Orpheus, Eine Faust-SymphonieEine Symphonie zu Dante's Divina Commedia - and more.

I don't know Chopin's and Liszt's songs well enough to comment.

Liszt also wrote three great organ works in the Präludium und Fuge über das Thema BACH, Weinen, Klagen' Variationen, and especially the Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam.


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Re: Chopin or Liszt?
Reply #2 on: July 21, 2012, 02:29:00 AM
Chopin, most definitely!

I enjoy Liszt also, but Chopin is and has always been one of my favorites. There are so many great works for the piano by him, many of which are even a good level for me to play.

Offline zezhyrule

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Re: Chopin or Liszt?
Reply #3 on: July 21, 2012, 03:46:35 AM
I love Chopin so very much. But definitely Liszt.
Currently learning -

- Bach: P&F in F Minor (WTC 2)
- Chopin: Etude, Op. 25, No. 5
- Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3
- Scriabin: Two Poems, Op. 32
- Debussy: Prelude Bk II No. 3

Offline albertus_magnus

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Re: Chopin or Liszt?
Reply #4 on: July 21, 2012, 06:05:26 PM
I am going to abstain from voting.  -I like them both!

Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Re: Chopin or Liszt?
Reply #5 on: July 21, 2012, 06:21:55 PM
That's a tough one for me...

I'm undecided
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