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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 Symphony No. 6 (Symphonia claviensis) Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 4¾ hours 270 (manuscript) [6] [19] [20] A3 Premiered by Jonathan Powell. [19] Piano Symphony No. 4 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 4½ hours 240 (manuscript) A3 Premiered by Reinier van Houdt. [21] [22] [23] Opus clavicembalisticum: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 4 hours
A double note theme is announced in measures 1–4. The piece then modulates rapidly from bar to bar, passing through: G flat (measure 5); C flat (measure 6); A flat minor (measure 7); and B flat (measure 9). The primary melody returns at measure 11. Measures 5 and 6 Measure 7 Measure 9
Étude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor, often referred to as Winter Wind in English, is a solo piano technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836. It was first published together with all études of Opus 25 in 1837, in France, Germany, and England.
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."
The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101 of Béla Bartók is a musical composition for piano and orchestra. The work, which was composed between 1930 and 1931, is notorious for being one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire. Playing time is 26–29 minutes.
The Piano Sonata No. 29 in B ♭ major, Op. 106 (known as the Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier, or more simply as the Hammerklavier) by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1817 and published in 1818. The sonata is widely viewed as one of the most important works of the composer's third period and among the greatest piano sonatas of all time.
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