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So many people just get a real superficial, almost meme-y, understanding of LIszt and then think that that's all there is to him. His famous Hungarian Rhapsodie, Lisztomania, and really fast piano playing make up much of his modern day perception. He was in truth an incredible composer who was incredibly innovative, especially in the later periods of his (very long) life.
That’s a very good way of putting it :) he wasn’t just revolutionary in his late period, but pieces like his early S.154 and S.155 show that Liszt was experimenting from the beginning. Thanks for your comment!
very true its crazy how little respect he gets seeing how impressionistic so many of his harmonies and pieces are, and some decades before that was a thing
I would include ballade in b minor for sure. The recapitulation of that piece has to be one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking melodies in the history of romantic music
Thank you for making this video, I'd also like people to understand Liszt better, he is such an underrated composer. Of course he has show-off pieces but that's why when he creates such nice melodies, my soul can resonate with him, I kind of think of myself the same.
It’s difficult to pin down Liszt’s best original work, but I feel it would be something more like his Sonata than Jeux d’eau. They are nice melodies too :)
The counter melody of Dies Irae in the 1st variation in "Totentanz" played firstly by the bassoon is really great. It's even so great that you can use it as a fugue theme.
Update: meanwhile I wrote a double fugue using the melody and an inversion of the first phrase of the Dies Irae, but I want to record a professional piano first before publishing it. The theme can be used in strettos as well. It’s very unfortunate that Liszt didn’t exhaust the possibility. He really missed an opportunity. The fugato later in Totentanz is great though.
In addition to pieces already mentioned here and in the comment section, I also like the melodies in La Leggierezza, Ricordanza (Transcendental Etude #9), the piano concerto no.2 and Mazeppa symphonic poem
It is those people's incompetency and being incapable of playing pieces on the harder side of the spectrum that makes them arrogant enough to call his music "emptily virtuosic". They are all subordinate to those who show the manifest juggernaut of the composer, and it is not only the searing melodies that count, but also parts that are scherzotic or dramatic or diabolic, that is why Scherzo und Marsch is one among my favourite Liszt works. And lastly, Liszt was a showman (what's wrong with being one? xD)
This is the music of transcendental genius, his second movement of the first concerto, gives the form of heaven it's shape, who teaches someone something like that, where do you start?
Liszthesia I contemplated to include the Spanish Rhapsody, his Petrarch Sonnet 104 and Vallee d’Obermann and others, but had to cut the list down to ten pieces. Thanks for watching!
The melody is very simple and crotchety... . whike I like the piece, I thought other melodies would show a more holistic range of what Liszt was capable of as a melody writer
Erm, mate, the melodies in Norma aren’t by Liszt, but by Bellini. Sorry to burst your bubble. If I were to put in a Liszt operatic fantasy, it would be Lucrezia Borgia anyway which is superior.
@@TheModicaLiszt AHhhahahahalrighty, I just listened to all 23 mins of Lucrezria Borgia and boi oh boi. I didn't think De Norma could be beat, but dang. I definitely preferred some parts of De Norma, but when it comes to the overall, in general better song, I do have to agree. Borgia is surperior.
@@jamespeterson101 Norma is iconic and really amazing, saying one is superior is meant to be a little lighthearted and subjective, but I’ve very glad you’ve discovered new music. Lucrezia Borgia is one of my favourites :) Thanks for subcribing!
Yay, finally some love for Valse Oubliee 2 (which I think is better than the first). One thing I’ll say though, I think the melodic section in the middle of Aux Cypres de la Villa d’Este No.2 is definitely one of Liszt’s best melodies, I would just put that into top 3 honestly
To be frankly honest, I hadn’t listened to that before I made this list. But it likely comes from folk melody anyway, so isn’t an original one from Liszt :)
Great list! My favorite melody by him is the 2nd part of the Ballade #2. That melody is just so warm. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m90vsN3SjvM.html
To leave out the Second Piano Concerto and Un Sospiro is ridiculous. Also the Consolation number 3 is one of his most beautiful Melodies. This list is very haphazard.
I’ll gently direct you to the title of the video, which implies that it contains a selection of ten great melodies. It is not a “top ten” list. Therefore I’m not leaving out melodies of unquestionble greatness in this video.
So you don't consider Chopin a genius either? Most of the melodies, especially the nocturnes, are based on other songs from the same period. You must be one of the people who only listen to Wagner, Mahler, Prokofiev and composers considered """original"" (I'm not criticizing, Wagner, Mahler and Prokofiev are among my favorites)
True Chopin was inspired by the Irish composer but never took his themes see the difference ?Chopin is the category of Mozart and Beethoven Liszt is the category of Alkan Thalberg and Czerny @@pianista-mediocre
@@vincentedelmond5404 I'm not equating Chopin and Liszt, I'm not stupid. I'm just saying that saying they are "fake melodies" when the greatest piano composer also does this is a bit strange
@@pianista-mediocre all I'm saying LIszt cannot make music MUSIC I didn't say ur stupid please stay in the context go and make the best of Liszt let's see how many viewer you will have
