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piabanoch

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Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

on: November 08, 2023, 08:21:13 PM

How would you rank Liszt trascendentals?

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Re: Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

Reply #1 on: November 12, 2023, 01:49:05 AM

Rankings are kind of pointless, but I'll entertain the possibility.
Number six is my favourite. All the others are just as beautiful.

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Re: Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

Reply #2 on: November 12, 2023, 07:38:45 PM

By difficulty, how good they sound, most played, what are you wishing to rank them by?

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Re: Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

Reply #3 on: November 13, 2023, 06:41:15 PM

Rankings are obviously very subjecive, but with that said:

By difficulty (Easiest to Hardest):
No. 1
No. 3
No. 6
No. 9
No. 2
No. 7
No. 11
No. 10
No. 8
No. 4
No. 12
No. 5

By how cool they are (least to most):
No. 9
No. 6
No. 3
No. 8
No. 1
No. 10
No. 5
No. 2
No. 4
No. 7
No. 12
No. 11

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the_franzliszt

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Re: Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

Reply #4 on: November 13, 2023, 06:51:11 PM

I feel like 4, "Mazeppa" is harder than 12, "Chasse Neige"

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liszt-and-the-galops

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Re: Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

Reply #5 on: November 16, 2023, 01:42:57 AM

Agreed. I'd also say 4 is harder than 5, but it's VERY close: 5 is vastly more difficult musicaly but 4 is vastly more difficult technicaly. Either way it's subjective.

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Re: Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

Reply #6 on: December 05, 2023, 05:42:01 PM

Quote from: liszt-and-the-galops on November 16, 2023, 01:42:57 AM

Agreed. I'd also say 4 is harder than 5, but it's VERY close: 5 is vastly more difficult musicaly but 4 is vastly more difficult technicaly. Either way it's subjective.

Yeah I agree, most people will say either 4 or 5 are the hardest. Personally in my opinion it's 5, just because if you are playing the whole set in a concert, you're already really tired out from Mazeppa, which makes Feux Follet even harder than it already is.

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Re: Ranking Liszt Trascendentals

Reply #7 on: December 18, 2023, 05:59:29 PM

I think most put no. 2 way too low. The hardest parts in all the combined etudes I think are making the fast ninths/minor tenths in 2 and 4. People are either slowing down at those parts or are have gigantic hand spans.

5, 4, 8, 12, 2, 10, 9, 7, 6, 3, 1

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