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Topic: Hardest piece of classical music ever written?  (Read 1858 times)

Offline chopinlover01

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Hardest piece of classical music ever written?
on: May 30, 2014, 05:33:25 PM
For this, I'm limiting it to music written in the baroque, classical, romantic, and 20th century era.
All composers are considered, and this is just for piano as always :D
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Re: Hardest piece of classical music ever written?
Reply #1 on: May 30, 2014, 06:38:43 PM
I think marble is probably the hardest I know of, but maybe there's another type of stone or stone tile that has been used

Offline cabbynum

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Re: Hardest piece of classical music ever written?
Reply #2 on: May 30, 2014, 08:08:23 PM
Franz liszt made a blog post the other day about how he wrote a new Hungarian rhapsody on diamond... His wins I believe
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Re: Hardest piece of classical music ever written?
Reply #3 on: May 30, 2014, 08:37:53 PM
A hardest thread, how unique.
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Offline pianist1976

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Re: Hardest piece of classical music ever written?
Reply #4 on: May 30, 2014, 08:49:03 PM
Me thinks it's an estudie by Fridereque Chopinovski but i'm not sure

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Re: Hardest piece of classical music ever written?
Reply #5 on: May 30, 2014, 09:40:45 PM
Mozart Sonata in C major K545. The C major scales are absolutely dreadful, far worse than the tremolos in Vers La Flamme or the octave glissando in Waldstein.
Beethoven Op 15, 31/2, 31/3, 57
Mozart K 284, 310
Debussy Images II
Ravel Miroirs
Rachmaninov Op 23 No.5
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