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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 ...
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
8 in piccolo 1 & 2, ob. 1 & 2, and trumpet 1, and piccolo 1 & 2, ob. 1–3, cornet 1 & trumpet 1, respectively against 3 4 in the rest of the orchestra. [135] Piano Sonata No. 2 ("The Airplane"), by George Antheil. One of the bars is in 8 8. [136] Pli selon pli by Pierre Boulez, in the first movement. [56] De Staat by Louis Andriessen.
Étude Op. 10, No. 4 in C ♯ minor, known as the Torrent étude, is a study for solo piano composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. It was first published in 1833 in France, [ 1 ] Germany, [ 2 ] and England [ 3 ] as the fourth piece of his Études Op. 10 .
2nd Study in A ♭ major (Like a piece for four hands) 3rd Study in A ♭ major; Opus 25 No. 2. 1st Study in F minor; 2nd Study in F minor ("Waltz") 3rd Study (A) in F minor; 3rd Study (B) in F minor; 4th Study in F ♯ minor (left hand only) This étude was also imitated in one of the Opus 10 No. 9 studies. Opus 25 No. 3. 1st Study in F major
The violins play glissando, pizzicato, tremolo, and in double stops, and use particular effects such as col legno (striking the wood of the bow on the strings) and sul ponticello (bowing close to the bridge), in order to imitate the sounds of a cat, a dog, a hen, the lyre, clarino trumpet, military drum, Spanish guitar, etc. (Boyden 2001; Pyron ...
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."
Six moments musicaux (French for "Six Musical Moments"; Russian: Шесть музыкальных моментов, romanized: Shest’ muzykál’nykh moméntov), Op. 16, is a set of solo piano pieces composed by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff between October and December 1896. [1]