What the hell it is?
They are filled with secret sauce!
Meh. I can take 'em or leave 'em.
Liszt's etudes are far better pieces of music.
Have you heard of any recording of these Etudes? If you haven't, try to get a CD or download these 24 Etudes of Chopin and listen to all of them. Even better, try to buy the book and follow the music as you listen to them. I think it is quite self explanatory.
Definitely. It's not at all subjective.
Oh come on, the Liszt ones aren't just etudes, they're transcendental etudes. They must be better.
one of them is merely an etude in 12 exercises
Wow, I feel an insane kind of mad love for that.
LOL, insane you would have to be. I have the score. Got all of a bar and a half into it before I thought "nah, maybe next century".
I would *love* the score It would sleep under my pillow.