The Most Difficult Piano Piece you ever played?

Question

What is the most difficult piano piece in the world that sound good?

I think Mozart is the most difficult composer out of Rachmaninov`s, Gaspard de la Nuit, Chopin-Godowsky, Prokofiev`s.

I think Opus Clavicembalisticum (OC) by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji is the most difficult one. It like 3 to 4 hours long? I don't like the piece.

The most difficult piece I have ever played is Under Construction by Jerry Martin and Buying Lumber the same composer. I've been only play piano for 2 years self teach. One of my favorite and the first artiest was Ludovico Einaudi, the first song I ever completed was called Le Onde.
And that's that.

Answer 1

There's a reason why you don't hear Mozart at piano competitions, and it's not because it isn't flashy enough. Mozart has to be flawless and sound effortless. Mozart is hardest, hands down. Give me Liszt or, even better, bombastic "atonal" music -- a rug to hide the dirt!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Let's consider what the two greatest pianists of the 20th century had to say: both Vladimir Horowitz and Sergei Rachmaninoff named Liszt's Feux Follets (Transcendental Etude no.5) as the most difficult piece they ever played, with Horowitz adding that the Don Juan Fantasy (Liszt) was also right up there. There you have it. Also, in an article published in 1895 in the famous "Etude" magazine, there was a survey done among the leading professors of piano at the Paris Conservatory, as to the hardest piece of piano music ever written, and the winner was Balakirev's "Islamey". But of course, this predates all the music of the 20th century. A very great modern day pianist named Cyprien Katsaris, who has a phenomenal technique, and has recorded an enormous amount, named the 4th movement of a transcription of Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (M.Cameron) as among the hardest things he has ever played. In an interview, Andre Watts mentioned Feux Follets as an "unbelievably" hard piece. Anyway, that's what some of the very greatest pianists have said.

Answer 4

I don't play older pieces (like Mozart and Beethoven), so I stick with newer ones. I've tried to learn some of the Coraline soundtrack on the piano and viola, but they're very fast-paced. Second hardest was the Dragonborn song from Skyrim.

Answer 5

Hardest? Umm...not entirely sure. I am currently working on easy Rachminov now and MacDowell's sea pieces.

Answer 6

I reconcile with f1 car - the hardest piece that I know of is hungarian rhapsody no.2 by Franz Liszt. The hardest piece that I can play (I've been taught for a year and then self-taught for a year) is Maple Leaf Rag.

That is, officially that's the hardest piece (grade 7). In my opinion, a grade 5 piece I can play is harder, Mozart's sonata in C, but that's because I'm not especially good at the more fiddly stuff - Maple Leaf is just banging keys nice and hard.

Answer 7

The two most difficult pieces that I have ever played were:

Johannes Brahms's "Piano Concerto #-2": requires extreme reaches of the little finger and thumb to execute his phenomenal chordal progressions.

Edward Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A-minor": on hearing played, sounds deceptively simple. But once you get into it, it's astounding how difficult to play it is.

Alberich

Answer 8

Hardest one I've played so far is Haydn's Piano Concerto in G

Answer 9

I suppose my true answer is Rachmaninov - I don't have the hand span to play his work.

The hardest piece that I've managed to play is Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Answer 10

To me, the most difficult i've played is Hungarian Rhapsodies by Liszt. the hardest was no.2 . 24 pages long but very nice.