What you didn't know about Liebestraum 

I discovered Liebestraum when i fell in love for the first time. After I found out what "Liebestraum" meant, the whole piece made sense and it helped me to understand my feelings more. Every part has it's own meaning, Liszt is painting a beautiful story with a mix of beautiful harmonies and some confusing cadenzas. It holds a special place in my heart. Loved the video and the album, keep doing what you do the best ♥

I’ve played this piece for 60 years and learned more about it from this video than from any of my past teachers. I’ve always played it as a love song (dream), but you have influenced my thinking of several phrases. Thank you, my love.

I never intended to learn this piece. Your description/breakdown has inspired me to learn Liebestraum. (My main focus is Jazz based pieces. This will be interesting LOL). The $Thanks, is also a thank you for the beautiful playing of Liebestraum in the accompanying video :)

I'm not a musician neither have musical background, but I love classical music since I was a child and I can say I enjoy this analysis, please do more videos like this 🙂

thank you somuch! been loved this piece since forever and this video is just... thank you

I loved this!! Especially your connections of how the music theory of the piece takes the meaning of the lyrics into account

Your description was so thorough that I felt and envisioned the love story as if I were there! Thank you! You should write love novels!

This is soooo awesome. love how you explained the harmony surrounding the repeated middle c. I would thoroughly enjoy more videos like this, with context and emotion from the history/text and harmonic analysis.

Omg please make an extended version of this! I’m thinking on playing this for my diploma performance and knowing how Liszt composed this piece will greatly benefit the way I express this song!

Geniale Erklärung. Super!

Vraiment beau ! Et belle interpretation , avec émotions...

Great explanation! I really like this approach. The background, the theory, the whole video. Great content Annique! The only thing I would have liked better is if you played the whole piece. ❤ 🎹 🎶 🎵

Love this peice. I used to play it in college but i want to relearn it.

please make a vid of you playing the whole piece

Amazing breakdown of this piece. Would love to hear you do analysis of other pieces.

Actualmente estoy estudiado esta pieza y me ayuda mucho la teoria detras de la pieza muchas gracias ❤❤❤❤

Dein Video kommt gerade recht, da dies mein nächstes Stück sein wird, das ich lernen will. Wird definitiv die größte Herausforderung, der ich mich bisher am Klavier gestellt habe. Tolles Video, danke dir.

Nooo why does this last so little? I love your interpretation

These kind of videos are very helpful! I have to admit that I usualy go more for the gut feeling and a little analysis but this could help a lot, develop a deeper meaning for each piece and really make us think!

Great interpretation of this wonderful work . It's really wonderful to get inside the composer's mind. It always bring more meaning to the music. I'm really fond of music interpretations and analysis of compositions by Ludwig Von Bethoven. Thanks for this great analysis .

Love, Love Big Love for Classical Pianists She is a very lovely and beautiful person.

Love these types of video. I am proud to be called a ‘hardcore nerd’

Super Video! Bitte mehr Interpretationen/Analysen von bekannten Werken. Ich bereue es sehr mir diese Video nicht früher angesehen zu haben :)

Great video. It’s really interesting to get some insight into the workings of the piece rather than just appreciating it intuitively. You make the music theory behind it very accessible. More please! 😊

I loved all those details… I had the notion of the poem, but not that it was part of the melody… now it makes way more sense… 😍😍😍 THANK YOU!!

I love your outfit!!

Wow! What are the chances? I am actually playing this and this was recommended to me!! Thank you for providing your insight on this beautiful piece!

I love this type of video! Please continue making them 🤩. My favourite Liszt piece is Liebestod ❤️ I hope you can play it one day on your channel, or make a video like this one about that song. The original version is from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, and I think both versions, Wagner and Liszt’s are espectacular 🥹❤️. Love your videos!!

I think the fact it was with lyrics makes the solo so much more

I love it

I played this piece last year. It was my first "big" piece (in terms of difficulty and reputation). Being 15, I didn't and still don't fully understand the emotions, but I can tell you that the journey this piece took me on was incredible. It is a beauty and I look forward to returning to this piece in the future, with more skill and understanding. As a pianist really looking to push myself, you are a great inspiration. If you could, could you do this kind of video for Chopin Op.48 No.1 (Nocturne in C Minor) as that is my current project!

Perfect timing, been playing it for a few weeks. now, im only missing the second cadenza 😢

Nice.

Saya Dari Indonesia dan Saya menyukai musik, khususnya musik yang diketuk seperti ini, apalah namanya, piano, grand piano, keyboard, piano elctone, organ, dan paling umumnya di negara Saya yaitu Organ... dimana aransement dan berbagai instrumen bisa diaplikasikan dalam satu alat musik organ tesebut. Salam kenal dari Indonesia, Sukses selalu buat Annique...

In English, we call the 1 of a chord the root, and we call the home base note of a key the tonic. I had never noticed before that the C in the melody is used as different members of the chords as they change. It makes sense that it stands for the constancy of love. btw, you used 2 of the same romantic Pexels clips I used in my last video. I'm going to send my wife links both videos to show her that great minds think alike!!

Love this kind of video!

I used to sometimes be able to resist the urge of sobbing to this song, you know. Guess not anymore.

Hallo Annique - super Video, danke dafür. Ein Vorschlag: lass die "underscore"-Musik weg, wen du sprichst. Oder verwende dafür höchstens das Stück, um das es geht. Es ist sonst sehr ablenkend, dir inhaltlich zu folgen und gleichzeitig vollkommen andere Musik zu hören. Wenn ich das Stück mit meinen Schülern bespreche, finde ich wichtig, dass die Melodie in der Mitte zwischen einer Bass- und einer Sopranstimme steht. Sie bildet dadurch das nach, was das verbindende Element zwischen zwei Menschen sein kann. Nur so als Gedanke, ich finde es hilfreich, so dadrüber zu denken. Wünsche viel Erfolg mit der künstlerischem und pädagogischen Arbeit und der aktuellen CD ;) - Grüße aus dem Ruhrgebiet.

I never think of a 9th as particularly dissonant. For me it is pure cocktail piano and my favourite chord tone. 🙂

I'm one of those who found the shipping exorbitant, so opted for the MP3. I do prefer the CD, so I'll check it at your direct link.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ ti amoooooo.

Excellent analysis❤👌

I was waiting for you to make a video on this for a long time!

god i wish english class was like this

I think, it is important to know how complex music is and the stories behind it.

Very cool. Thanks!

I love this piece. But, have you listened to liebestraum 1 & 2? I think they are highly underrated. They also represent different forms of love with no 3 representing pure love or the highest form of it.

I learned so much from your video. Please use same treatment on Erik Satie. He is so clever..I think.

Great video!

I can't wait to hear this piece on RU-vid. thanks

I love this type of video. Good information. History.

You look sooooo good in this costumeeee❤✨

Didn't know you were German. Your English is excellent, is it taught in schools there?

Thank you so much for this video! Music question for you: Liszt was the one to invent "symphonic poems", and I always thought that Liebestraum was indeed a symphonic poem but recently I learned that it is actually classified as a Lieder. Why would it not be a Lieder and not a symphonic poem?

its almost 2 years since I started to practice this piece. and Im still at the hardest part of it. thats how untalented I am

You analize the piece. Very well

Can you play Liszt's transcription of Wagner's Luebestod from the opera Tristian und Isolde next?

I wonder if Chopin's nocuture Op. 48 no.1 has any hidden interpretations within it

I love u

love this content only person who will accually explain piano songs to me like im not 2 years old edit:18 likes i’m famous mom 😲

Hi Annique, that was super interesting! I would love to have a more detailed analysis of the piece from you, and also would love to hear you play it :)

I discovered this piece bcs of Michael Andreas , maybe you know him or heard of him.

What time do I need to play so awesome ? I don't have experience 😂

I think you are so interesting and attractive pianist.(of course beautiful) Come to japan for a concert someday, I'll buy the ticket at any cost.

Jonas Kaufmann's performance of it is sublime! The soprano versions are however not so good. The tenor voice really brings out the potential of 'O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst'. Personally, his performance changed my mind to thinking the song-form is better. Here is a link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cBPOwD0O1D8.htmlsi=iUbUVuTNijb2-UIX

Thank you! I just started learning the piece last week and I’m already loving it

This is such a great video, the editing is so good as well

❤❤❤

Im going to play it as next. Im so happy about to be allowed to play from my piano teacher

3). i'm definately gonna be braggin about this... lolz. :)

Omg I love that brooch(?) and ribbon. And the glittery pieces on the collar.

Well done.

I'm learning this piece new and I enjoyed this video a lot🎶

;Love this concept for the subject for future vids. Could benefit from the piece played in full at the beginning and/or the end but a great vid regardless. Thank you.

❤

Purchased your album on iTunes absolutely love it!!! Congratulations on this amazing milestone in your life!!!

But for some reason I have always had some kind of antipathy towards works that are played too often. After all, how much music is written for the piano... So I’d rather perform what few people perform. As for this particular play by Liszt, there are a lot of open emotions there. Chopin is still somehow closer in expressing love emotions. In my opinion, they are more elevated. And Schumann too! Schumann is actually my favorite composer! 😍🥰💗

The best 🤍🤍

Thanks for all the facts! Going to be playing it next week at a concert and having this context behind the piece will definitely help me :)

Love this video! Thank you for sharing, Annique!

Wow Annique thank you for those videos, I think there is a lot of potential in those types of informative videos for your channel!

Die Theoriekomponente war für mich als Laie absolut interessant! Solider content!

Thanks. I wanted see you performing it as well 👏

I just finished learning this piece recently so this video was a timely reminder that I didn't really finish it since I don't understand enough about it! Really interesting and useful video, would love more along the same lines - analysis really deepens the appreciation for both the player and listener. Thanks!

I enjoy in-depth tutorials, the whole piece. i would pay for it...))) Your format is very good.

i love your interpretation! i also love traums even though he's vst, he introduced me to the piece. you are very talented and your style of playing just resonates with me

Definitely like this idea to give background and quick analysis on a piece and the theory touches are great!

Great explanation! I really enjoy the nerdy analyses a lot. Thanks!

I agree that the piano version is better than the song but then again I'm not much of a fan of Lieder but there is a crazy version from the movie Lisztomania which I really love despite it's weirdness (you can find it on youtube as "Love's Dream - Rick Wakeman" - Wakeman made the soundtrack but he does not actually play the track, it's played by a classical pianist) - in this version Roger Daltrey from the Who sings it in a rock style but the visuals are just hilarious and they depict the start, progress and the end of Liszt's love affair with Marie d'Agoult, full of kitschy hearts and Liszt is like Charlie Chaplin !! it's just such fun.

This format was enjoyable and educational. Didn’t realize the 6th was the love interval - or had forgotten. The song, My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean, was the song I used in university for M6 intervals with ear training. Thanks for the ah-ha moment today. Yes, I’d definitely enjoy geeking out with more form & analysis style vlogs 😂. Heading over to your website to check out the new cd!

Really enjoyed this video more like this please

Really good stuff Annique. I've played this piece for years and now understand it in a better way thanks to you. You might consider doing the rest of the piece this way. Maybe give some practice tips on the cadenzas too. Your Etudes are very well done. Bravo.

Thank you so much Annique for this insightful video about Liebestraum. The biggest revelation for me was the bit about the lover standing at the tombstone with those seven descending notes with him (or her) falling into total despair. I will never play that line the same way again it opens up the notion to me of what it is to play music with emotion so vividly. I feel I will be able to apply this notion to many pieces now to be able to create more emotional impact to the listener. I love your playing and your You tube videos. Could you possibly do one like this on Schumann's Dedication? I would really appreciate that. I will go to your website to order your cd of the Chopin Etudes for sure. Congratulations and keep up your fantastic work. Brian

Yes please do an analysis for Chopin/Balakirev Romance Larghetto. It is my LTCL Exam piece. lol!!

Thank you so much for this nice and insightful analysis! I started to play it like 20 years ago and picked it up again only recently. Back in the days i even played it publicly as i luckily did not know that it is indeed difficult. Honestly, i never even looked at the lyrics. I just wanted to play it. Now i know way better why it is how it is, so thanks a lot for that. You ask what could b interesting to talk about, and today i thought a lot about Chopins second sonata, particularly the first movement, i wondered what the hell is going on there. It feels like it is telling one giant humongous, serious story which would be good for three hollywood movies hands down - but i am not 100% sure what it is talking about.... Well, luckily, we do not have to. After all, it is music. 🙂

Yo

Come to Peru.

Schöne Einführung! Dankeschön 👍 Interesse hätte ich an einer Einführung zum Regentropfen -Prélude.

Thanks for making me know this. Although it has always sounded quite lyrical to me whenever I listen to or play it, I never knew it actually has a song version or better still, it hailed from an actual song. A whole new perspective for me indeed.

Nice.. music is the language of the soul 👍🎹❤️