this might be a stupid question but i HAVE to ask...

[Fasolatido]

You know the Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt? Right? Of course. now, i'm listening to it, and i swear, like how can two pairs of hands play this song? is it a duet? or is it just crazy like that.

[steinwaymodeld]

You know the Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt? Right? Of course. now, i'm listening to it, and i swear, like how can two pairs of hands play this song? is it a duet? or is it just crazy like that.

Try to get Horowitz's transcritpion, it sounds like more than 4 hands.

[Fasolatido]

but...it is written for ONE person. right? im being totally serious

[Tash]

well i can tell you one thing, it ain't a song it's a piece

-this information was kindly brought to you by tash, the song-nazi, have a nice day!-

[chopiabin]

Liszt actually wrote 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano ( I think), and they are all piano solo pieces. Do you know which one it is? Who is playing it?

[Fasolatido]

song peice you know what the heck i mean

no.2 in C sharp minor

even looking at the sheet music im like wow

[bravuraoctaves]

The strange thing is that, compared to other piano litrature, (the Chopin-Godowsky etudes) it is difficult, but definitely not the hardest.

[Fasolatido]

i've never attempted to play it before, so i'm not saying that it is difficult, just the way it SOUNDS you know? amazing

[DarkWind]

It's not largely difficult, Liszt was making good at making pieces sound impressive. My teacher was suggesting pieces easier than Alborada del Gracioso, to work on and help improve musicality, and was throwing out suggestions of moderate difficulty pieces, and this was one he mentioned.

[ehpianist]

check what you're listening to as well, Liszt did transriptions of his Hungarian Rhapsodies for 4 hands as well. 

There's a reason, though, why he's considered the king of virtuosic display.

Elena
https://www.pianofourhands.com

[Fasolatido]

Liszt's Tarantella is an AWESOME peice

[pianiststrongbad]

I learned this peice this last summer, and have to admit it is definately one of the hardest peices I have ever learned.  I think it is more difficult than La Campanella and most of the Chopin Etudes (I can only same most, because I haven't played them all).

[Jeremy C.]

this song is AMAZINGLY DIFFICULT. it is ment to be played with 2 hands, 1 person, but it takes some getting used to. if you think that is hard, you should try La Campenella

[pianiststrongbad]

I think this Rhapsody is harder than La Campanella.  I have played both a lot fairly recently, and I feel that in La Campanella there is just a few pages where I am worried something might go wrong, but the Rhapsody I feel it could fall apart on almost everypage.