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For you, what are the 5 hardest ever?

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Liszt Transcendental Etude no. 8
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Chopin Piano Sonata 2
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Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 1
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Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 4
Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 10
Chopin Etude op. 25 no. 6
Chopin Etude op. 25 no. 10
Chopin Etude op. 25 no. 11
Chopin Etude op. 25 no. 12
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Chopin Ballade 1
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Chopin Prelude 8
Chopin Prelude 16
Chopin Prelude 19
Chopin Prelude 24
Beethoven Sonata no. 29 op. 106
Rachmaninov Sonata 1
Prokofiev Sonata 8
Ligeti Etude 1
Ligeti Etude 13
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Boulez Sonata 2
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Stravinsky Trois mouvements de Petrouchka
Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit
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5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
on: June 27, 2015, 04:05:01 PM
Hardest overall, not "If you're playing it right, 1st movement of moonlight sonata..."

****IF A PIECE IS NOT LISTED THAT YOU THINK IS IN THE TOP 5, PLEASE POST WHAT IT IS SO I CAN ADD IT. YOU CAN THEN CHANGE YOUR VOTE.****

Yes I know this has been discussed before but I'm curious to see it in a poll form.

Let's see, I'm going for Liszt Feux Follets, Chopin Ballade 4, Ravel Gaspard de la nuit, Chopin Prelude 19, and Beethoven Hammerklavier.

Sorry for being Chopin heavy.... ;)
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #1 on: June 27, 2015, 04:12:17 PM
Probably some worthless plinky crap like Barrett's Tract or a fifteen hour sack of dung by Snorabji.

Thal
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #2 on: June 27, 2015, 04:18:48 PM
Quote from: thalbergmad on June 27, 2015, 04:12:17 PM
Probably some worthless plinky crap like Barrett's Tract or a fifteen hour sack of dung by Snorabji.

Thal

Why, you sound quite enthusiastic. Do you want me to add something to the list so you can vote?
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #3 on: June 27, 2015, 04:38:38 PM
Quote from: pencilart3 on June 27, 2015, 04:18:48 PM
Do you want me to add something to the list so you can vote?

No, I would rather slide naked down a razor blade than get involved in more "hardest" threads.

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #4 on: June 27, 2015, 04:45:23 PM
Quote from: thalbergmad on June 27, 2015, 04:38:38 PM
No, I would rather slide naked down a razor blade than get involved in more "hardest" threads.

Thal

Ok. Goodbye.

WELL IS ANYONE ELSE GOING TO POST OR WILL YOU ALL LEAVE ME WITH THIS GUY?
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #5 on: June 27, 2015, 06:06:16 PM
I think you are probably stuck with me. All the other members have probably got something better to do than waste time with this pointless crap.

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #6 on: June 28, 2015, 02:21:16 AM
Quote from: pencilart3 on June 27, 2015, 04:45:23 PM
Ok. Goodbye.

WELL IS ANYONE ELSE GOING TO POST OR WILL YOU ALL LEAVE ME WITH THIS GUY?

You're on your own. Best of luck!
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #7 on: June 28, 2015, 05:36:11 PM
Quote from: thalbergmad on June 27, 2015, 06:06:16 PM
I think you are probably stuck with me. All the other members have probably got something better to do than waste time with this pointless crap.

Thal

Thank you for expressing your opinions, Thal. I am wondering, however, if you are sick of engaging in these "which is the hardest debates", why you are spending time in the section "Polls, etc..." which is "A board dedicated to "which is the greatest/hardest..."? If your sick of engaging in standard debates, please get off the laptop keys and hit the piano keys mr. 15 thousand posts and allow the *rest* of us to continue discussing this topic.
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #8 on: June 28, 2015, 05:45:22 PM
What "rest of us"?.

Nobody outside of a preteen is interested in this rubbish.

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #9 on: June 28, 2015, 06:02:02 PM
Quote from: thalbergmad on June 28, 2015, 05:45:22 PM
What "rest of us"?.

Nobody outside of a preteen is interested in this rubbish.

Thal

Well, there's me...  :D
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #10 on: June 28, 2015, 06:08:19 PM
Quote from: thalbergmad on June 27, 2015, 04:12:17 PM
Probably some worthless plinky crap like Barrett's Tract or a fifteen hour sack of dung by Snorabji.
I'e never heard of Snorabji but, more importantly, I've never encountered an animal capable of spending 15 hours creating a sackful of dung; so much still to learn - so little time...

That said, the prospect of yet another of these time-wasting threads is less welcome than said sack of dung, which could at least be a useful fertiliser...

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #11 on: June 28, 2015, 06:35:17 PM
Quote from: ahinton on June 28, 2015, 06:08:19 PM
I'e never heard of Snorabji but, more importantly, I've never encountered an animal capable of spending 15 hours creating a sackful of dung; so much still to learn - so little time...

That said, the prospect of yet another of these time-wasting threads is less welcome than said sack of dung, which could at least be a useful fertiliser...

Best,

Alistair

Might I ask you why you are on this "time wasting thread" then? And really, if you just would have voted it would have taken less time than commenting that HILARIOUS JOKE which I'm sure you're so proud of...
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #12 on: June 28, 2015, 07:11:36 PM
Yawn.

And by the way, none of the pieces you have listed are songs.

I suggest you get an education and come back in a couple of years.

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #13 on: June 28, 2015, 07:17:17 PM
Thal, Ahinton & co. have dealt with these threads so many times that it's the same pointless meandering crap from them.
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LAST POST PLEASE
Reply #14 on: June 29, 2015, 05:05:17 AM
HAVEN'T YOU ALL SAID ENOUGH?! This is pointless for you guys who spend way too much time on this forum and have done this thousands of times. But, I would like to thank all the members on this forum to really satisfying my curiosity and helping me gain a better understanding of piano pieces. I will now let you people go back to your helpful posts such as "last post wins" (which you all seem to love) and try to get rid of this "Pointless crap".
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #15 on: June 29, 2015, 06:43:29 AM
Quote from: thalbergmad on June 28, 2015, 07:11:36 PM
Yawn.

And by the way, none of the pieces you have listed are songs.
I'd thought that this was inserted as a wind-up; it's not the first time we've had "hardest song" stuff, after all.

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #16 on: June 29, 2015, 06:45:37 AM
Quote from: pencilart3 on June 28, 2015, 06:35:17 PM
Might I ask you why you are on this "time wasting thread" then? And really, if you just would have voted it would have taken less time than commenting that HILARIOUS JOKE which I'm sure you're so proud of...
You might ask, but you'd hardly be deserving of the obvious answer if you need to do so - and why vote in a list that is itself so selective in what it includes and what it doesn't?

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #17 on: June 29, 2015, 12:52:08 PM
Excuse me sir, do you understand the words, "Last post please"?

And do you also understand the words...

"IF A PIECE IS NOT LISTED THAT YOU THINK IS IN THE TOP 5, PLEASE POST WHAT IT IS SO I CAN ADD IT. YOU CAN THEN CHANGE YOUR VOTE."

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #18 on: June 29, 2015, 01:02:15 PM
@ pencilart3 - what's the difference between Ravel's Gaspard and Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit?
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #19 on: June 29, 2015, 01:10:40 PM
Quote from: j_menz on June 29, 2015, 01:02:15 PM
@ pencilart3 - what's the difference between Ravel's Gaspard and Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit?

WHY THERE'S A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE!!!!!!

Just kidding, sorry I didn't realize I put it twice.  ;)

Ok, J_menz, it's your turn - I HATE YOU I HATE YOUR DUMB POSTS AND THEY WASTE MY TIME.

Go ahead, say it...
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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #20 on: June 29, 2015, 01:21:03 PM
Quote from: pencilart3 on June 29, 2015, 12:52:08 PM
Excuse me sir, do you understand the words, "Last post please"?
Of course - but what would be their contextg here?

Quote from: pencilart3 on June 29, 2015, 12:52:08 PM
And do you also understand the words...

"IF A PIECE IS NOT LISTED THAT YOU THINK IS IN THE TOP 5, PLEASE POST WHAT IT IS SO I CAN ADD IT. YOU CAN THEN CHANGE YOUR VOTE."
Again, of course - but do YOU understand the words "yet another pointless thread on the same topic"?

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Re: 5 Hardest piano songs EVER! (Pieces listed - poll)
Reply #21 on: June 29, 2015, 01:26:39 PM
Quote from: ahinton on June 29, 2015, 01:21:03 PM
Of course - but what would be their contextg here?


Let's see... I what does contextg mean? OH! You mean context! Because I said last post please 7 posts ago

Quote from: ahinton on June 29, 2015, 01:21:03 PM
Again, of course - but do YOU understand the words "yet another pointless thread on the same topic"?

Best,

Alistair

WELL I CAN'T DELETE THE DARN THING CAN I?
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