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Topic: Piece by Liszt?  (Read 1199 times)

Offline pianoville

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Piece by Liszt?
on: April 01, 2015, 08:29:42 PM
Right now i am playing the Toccata from Debussys "Pour le Piano" And have recently played Jeux d'eau by Ravel, C# Minor prelude by Rachmaninov and Liebestraume no 3 by Liszt! Do you know any Liszt pieces in the same level as the Toccata Pour le Piano? And where would you put the Toccata from 1 to 10? :)
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Re: Piece by Liszt?
Reply #1 on: April 02, 2015, 08:58:36 AM
No one is replying!  :o
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Offline 8_octaves

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Re: Piece by Liszt?
Reply #2 on: April 02, 2015, 03:45:24 PM
Hi pianoville,

it's a "displeasing" ( but in a positive way!!  :) ) question, I think.

Some time ago I downloaded the suite "pour le piano", but since then I hadn't very much inspected it further. But because of your question, I have taken a look at it, again.

The problem is, of course subjectively thought, that the toccata seems to start not so difficult, but then gets more difficult, and in the end it seems hard! But there are Liszt-pieces which may be very much more difficult, though.

So, to find Liszt-pieces which provide a - for Liszt-level! - "average, but increasing" difficulty, and this additionally in comparison to the toccata of Debussy, is not so easy.

And I'm not a Liszt-expert: That makes it even more difficult for me to answer. But one I found, which may be of interest. What about this one?

https://imslp.org/wiki/%C3%89tude_en_douze_exercices,_S.136_%28Liszt,_Franz%29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpjNjpZNRs

Cordially, 8_octaves!
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The artist listens for that which is well done,
the person who knows nothing listens for the faults." (T. Carreņo, quoting her 2nd teacher, Gottschalk.)
 

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