Easy Songs by Liszt

[kevonthegreatpianist]

Is there such thing as one? Because I think Liszt's easy probably would be probably Chopin's hardest etudes

[rubinsteinmad]

Is there such thing as one? Because I think Liszt's easy probably would be probably Chopin's hardest etudes

Madam P-N's Carousel

There. EASY PEEZY. Even easier than Chopin's Bourees

[thalbergmad]

No idea, i am not a singer.

If you are referring to piano music, please stop using the word "songs". It is beyond retarded.

Thal

[kevonthegreatpianist]

No idea, i am not a singer.

If you are referring to piano music, please stop using the word "songs". It is beyond retarded.

Thal

screw it Thal. PIECES

[rubinsteinmad]

I love Sancta Dorothea, though. It's beautiful.
Also, Valse pour Marie is nice.
There is a Valse in A Major that is beautiful, and there is another Valse in A Major that is not as beautiful. but it's more famous.

Pater Noster from the Harmonies is really nice, too. BUt it's not pretty.

If you want something more "Lszt Liszt", try the Etudes Op. 1 (also known as the Etude Op. 1). These are his early versions of the Transcendentals. My favorite is #9, 10, and 11. The other ones can't COMPARE to the Transcendentals.

[swagmaster420x]

No idea, i am not a singer.

If you are referring to piano music, please stop using the word "songs". It is beyond retarded.

Thal

this response is gold

[lhb_]

orage

[adodd81802]

I'm not sure why there are often threads for "Easy XXX" pieces. If you were learning Grade 3 at the piano you wouldn't ask for "Easy grade 8" pieces. Some composers made easier pieces, some made harder pieces, Pianists such as Chopin and Liszt clearly dedicated their life and talents to the piano and their compositions are evidence of this.

They wouldn't have put the thought and effort into the compositions for any old fool with a piano and 2 hands to pick up and play. Certainly not ones that referred to their compositions as "songs"

In fact I think in the UK the earliest Chopin piece is grade 6 maybe even 7, not to mention for Liszt (we go up to grade 8 in the UK). You are either ready for Liszt or you are not. Sure they have easier pieces by "their" standards, but if you're concerned about finding those pieces you're probably not ready.

If you're particularly interested in the Romantic Era, there are many many composers that produced piano pieces in this time some a lot easier than others that you could learn to build your ability.

[swagmaster420x]

If I was good at piano, I would take so much pleasure in calling pieces "songs," because it would be guaranteed to piss off people worse than me 

[adodd81802]

I think if you put enough effort in so that you were good enough to be comfortably playing Liszt "songs" you'd P*ss your own self off calling them songs lol.

[swagmaster420x]

No, because music practice does not affect my notions of propriety regarding what to call something meant to be played by an instrument.

[chechig]

I learnt this beautiful and rare piece by Liszt, last year, I didn't find it hard at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQK0SG5x7To

This other one is not very difficult either. It all depends on your skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQuohan3XSg

[listesso_tempo]

Funerailles is quite easy by Liszt standarts

[chopinlover01]

The third Liebestraum is quite easy for Liszt, and should be manageable if you've actually played everything you claim to have played.
Oh wait, you probably haven't..
Check out the Romance in E minor. Also, the Consolations are easy.

[ianw]

There's nothing below grade 5 for Liszt on the www.pianosyllabus.com website, and just two pieces at that grade.  There's five pieces listed at grade 6 and obviously loads more at the higher grades.

[swagmaster420x]

Mephisto Waltz I heard is a pretty beginner-friendly score.

[lmpianist]

Die Lorelei.

It's easy, short, sounds very pleasant, and it's actually a song (but can be played as a solo piece).
I have a horrible track record with Liszt, but this I was able to learn fairly easily.

The text of the poem (Heine), translated, reads:

 I cannot determine the meaning
 Of sorrow that fills my breast:
 A fable of old, through it streaming,
 Allows my mind no rest.
 The air is cool in the gloaming
 And gently flows the Rhine.
 The crest of the mountain is gleaming
 In fading rays of sunshine.
 
 The loveliest maiden is sitting
 Up there, so wondrously fair;
 Her golden jewelry is glist'ning;
 She combs her golden hair.
 She combs with a gilded comb, preening,
 And sings a song, passing time.
 It has a most wondrous, appealing
 And pow'rful melodic rhyme.

 The boatman aboard his small skiff, -
 Enraptured with a wild ache,
 Has no eye for the jagged cliff, -
 His thoughts on the heights fear forsake.
 I think that the waves will devour
 Both boat and man, by and by,
 And that, with her dulcet-voiced power
 Was done by the Loreley.

Have fun!