Ask a pianist.

Ah, I wish I was a better Pianist. I've only played the pieces that I have to do in my piano minor class, and I'm always terrible.

Too bad I'm a loser actor and vocalist.

Anyways, back to the topic.

I have a few questions.

I'm a big fan of Chopin, and out of all the pieces he has written, what would you consider his hardest to play?

Same question for Lizt, though I'm not such a fan of his music...I just know his music is very showy, amazing to watch, but not nessicairly to listen too. IMO.

Do any of you know when the extra keys where added to the piano (The last 5 or 6, which add an extra octave, and are ussualy all black.)?

Finally, would you ever play the piano accompinment for me, a vocalist, haha.

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Originally Posted by Fyodor D.

Regarding hard pieces by Liszt, right now I think that either his Hugenot's transcription, Don Juan Fantasy, Totentanz, or Feu Follets, are some of his hardest pieces.
But I have by no means managed to print out every single one of his works and tried to play them, as I would probably force my school into bankruptcy.

Well, of course I didn't expect you to play all of Lizts Music. And totentanz is probably, to my ear, one of my more enjoyed Liszt works. One has to remeber Liszt was the Paiganni of the Piano. Liszt was the far better composer, however.

Out of the Piano works I've stutied (Ive had to study a few, considering my music theory teacher is the piano teacher, heh) Chopin really knew what he was doing, he could even make those Etudes sound amazing, even though they where written for technical reasons.

Anyways, I have another question, I heard a quote somewhere from a famous pianist that said something to the extent of it being harder to play Mozart then it is Liszt, because of mozarts use of the melodic line, and it's need for interpretation. Do you agree with this?

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Originally Posted by ^__^

I don't know when these extra keys were added, but I'd say early 20th century. The information can probably be googled easily enough. I've recently gotten the chance to play on a Bösendorfer grand that had 4 extra keys and it was certainly an interesting experience. I think it's a Bösendorfer-specific feature.

Yeah, that's actualy the piano I was thinking off, I'll have to look into the history of that.

You might not know the answer to this, but do you know of any other composer that used those lower notes other then Bartok?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Another random question for you Pianists out there, who is your most respecteted pianist, and which one do you look up to the most?

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