what piece is this?

[Sekoul]

i dont know if anybody here has seen UNFINISHED PIECE FOR THE PLAYER PIANO by Nikita Mihailkov... well anyway, there is a certain piece on that movie and at the end credits all that it says is that there was music by Liszt and Rachmaninoff... i would really like to know the name of this piece..
it starts out with slow chords in the lower range of the piano... and then suddenly the melody comes along... this is what i figured out the melody to be by ear.
fa-mi--fa---re----fa-mi--fa---re----fa-mi--fa---sol----fa-mi--fa---la#

lol its VERY rough and probably completely wrong because i saw the movie a while ago and this is just what i remember.. but i think its a very famous piece so could anybody try playing this and tell me what piece it is??

thank you so much for your time!

[rachlisztchopin]

im sure its not the first movement of the rach two but thats all i can think of...hmm 

[donjuan]

i dont know if anybody here has seen UNFINISHED PIECE FOR THE PLAYER PIANO by Nikita Mihailkov... well anyway, there is a certain piece on that movie and at the end credits all that it says is that there was music by Liszt and Rachmaninoff... i would really like to know the name of this piece..
it starts out with slow chords in the lower range of the piano... and then suddenly the melody comes along... this is what i figured out the melody to be by ear.
fa-mi--fa---re----fa-mi--fa---re----fa-mi--fa---sol----fa-mi--fa---la#

lol its VERY rough and probably completely wrong because i saw the movie a while ago and this is just what i remember.. but i think its a very famous piece so could anybody try playing this and tell me what piece it is??

thank you so much for your time!

I bet I know the exact piece you are talking about!  I think you are thinking about "Tempo guisto-vivace" part from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2.  heres how to test:

go to the piano and play
 
C, C#, B      C#, Cnatural, C#, B   

C# Cnatural C# A#      C# Cnatural C# A#

C# Cnatural C# D#     C# Cnatural C# D#

C# Cnatural C# F#      C# Cnatural C# F#


sound familiar?

it really sounds like you are talking about this part of Hungarian Rhapsody No.2.  those "slow chords" you were talking about are probably the part leading up to the friska.

just get a recording and see if I was right!
donjuan

[Sekoul]

i just found it and yep that's exactly it thanks a bunch!!

[Spatula]

Very good job with that Don Juan, Liszt would be proud. 

[julie391]

lol, i like these mystery piece thread, maybe i can help out sometime 

[donjuan]

Very good job with that Don Juan, Liszt would be proud. 

[Bob]

Is there a way we can put our own notated music on here?  So instead of typing the letters, someone could actually write out a few notes?

I know of notepad.  And you could probably do a screen capture.