The most difficult piano pieces EVER written!

These are the most terrifying, challenging, difficult pieces ever composed for the piano. I'm only including pieces I consider to be good pieces...which I know is subjective...but I didn't want this to be a list on 5+ hour pieces or pieces with no musical content that ONLY strive to be difficult.
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Let me know the hardest pieces you've ever played!
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[@mstalcup]

Liszt's B minor sonata is notable more for its compositional brilliance than its difficulty to perform. It is literally lauded by consensus as the composer's magnum opus. Liszt's most difficult work to perform is most likely his Spanish Fantasy, S. 253.

[@mstalcup]

Additional interesting and difficult piano music worth checking out would be the etude The Devil's Staircase by György Ligeti, Concord Sonata by Charles Ives, and Symphonie for solo piano by Charles-Valentin Alkan.

[@kristian6566]

The second movement of Alkan's sonata is just mindblowingly difficult. It even has an 8(!) voice fugue in it.

[@eddydelrio1303]

Thank you for reminding us of the fabulous Brahms Handel Variations! It's been since the 80's that I thought of that magnificent work!

[@pookz3067]

It’s so good. Check out Gary Graffman’s album with the Paganini and Handel variations. Really good playing in that album.

[@Stevie-Steele]

The most difficult piece that is TONAL and in the Romantic idiom is probably Godowsky's Passacaglia on a theme by Schubert. Godowsky's writing is very dense, contrapuntal, super virtuosic - but it's also very accessible and pleasant on a more superficial level too. Alkan is of course legendary too - and his music is like Liszt in that it requires a lot of "athletic virtuosity" - but Godowsky is the absolute peak of Romantic Piano - his music is really virtuosic in "athletic" ways but ALSO is so complex - really rich like a multi-layered cake. So in terms of music that I think has WIDE appeal and Romantic-style musical material - I'd say Godowsky is the top composer in terms of difficulty - and the Passacaglia is his most challenging work (asides from the complete studies on Chopin etudes!). I recommend recordings by Marc-Andre Hamelin - and also recommend the complete solo piano works by Godowsky - recorded by Konstantin Scherbakov. One of the biggest achievements in recorded music really, up there with Leslie Howard doing all of Liszt!

[@craigthomas6733]

The most difficult pieces ever composed for the piano... Alkan, "hold my pint" 😂

[@AlimAlimZ]

Nice bro :) I'm personally pretty scared of Liszt's Reminiscences de Don Juan and Norma. There is so much good music written, life is way too short.

[@bw2082]

Schumann Toccata, Feux Follets, Brahms Paganini Variations…The 3rd Sonata is harder than the 4th Ballade.

[@Silvermoonmaker]

the description is blatant sorabji slander lmfaooooo 💀

[@ryanabshier]

🤣I really wanted this to be pieces at least a good chunk of the audience would enjoy. I guess the longest and most impossible "keyboard" work would be to John Cage. 600 years!

[@ultimateconstructions]

Atonality is not music by any objective measure since it contradicts the meaning of the word music itself. Deal with it.

[@Jqh73o-l7v]

Atonal music can be beautiful

[@dogwithabome630]

​@@ultimateconstructions atonality is music deal with it

[@blackmage1276]

@@ultimateconstructions are you a 5 year old, spend 5 minutes trying to define music and it's not so simple.

[@thisismoyukhsworld2022]

Brahms' Handel Variations and Fugue, are influenced from Beethoven's Eroica Variations and Fugue. And Eroica is much more harder and virtuosic than Handel.

[@violentamentepacifico3500]

Great video!But no mozart on the list😢?

[@soozb15]

Bartok's Three Études, Op.18...😊

[@josephyanuskiewicz5678]

This is probably up there in terms of difficulty along with any other of Liszt's transcriptions most notably Beethoven Symphony no 5 transcription for piano kzbin.info/www/bejne/nn7UioFraJ2cbtUsi=E91MULpZvmhJ_Ilq

[@temp_name_change_later]

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