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"La campanella" is a revision of an earlier version from 1838, the Études d'exécution transcendente d'après Paganini, S. 140, and is widely considered one of the most technically challenging piano pieces ever written.
Islamey: Oriental Fantasy (Russian: Исламей: Восточная фантазия), is a composition for piano by Russian composer Mily Balakirev written in 1869. Harold C. Schonberg noted that Islamey was "at one time…considered the most difficult of all piano pieces and is still one of the knucklebusters."
Piano Sonata No. 5 Maurice Verheul 7 hours 18 minutes 441 (manuscript) [28] [self-published source?] Piano Symphony No. 0 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 5½ hours 333 (manuscript) [29] A3 Piano Symphony No. 1 (Tāntrik) Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 4½ hours 284 (manuscript) [30] A3 Piano Symphony No. 2 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 4½ hours
The Toccata in C major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1830 and revised in 1833.The piece is in sonata-allegro form. [1]The work was originally titled Etude fantastique en double-sons (Fantastic Study in Double Notes), and was infamously referred to by Schumann as the "hardest piece ever written"—to this day it remains as "one of the most ferociously difficult pieces in the piano ...
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
Opus clavicembalisticum is a work for solo piano, notable for its length and difficulty, composed by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and completed on 25 June 1930. [1]At the time of its completion, it was the longest piano piece in existence, taking around 4–4½ hours to play, depending on tempo.
The Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as part of a set of six for Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia in 1789. [1] It is often nicknamed "The Hunt" or "The Trumpet Sonata", for the hornlike opening. [2] The sonata, having a typical performance duration of about 15 minutes, is Mozart's last. It ...
The pieces are among the most difficult piano works ever written, and only a few pianists have ventured to perform any of them. Among such pianists are Marc-André Hamelin , who recorded the entire set and garnered a number of prestigious awards, and Francesco Libetta , who performed the complete set in concert (the only pianist to do so from ...