What's the hardest music you've played ?
In high school for band we had to play manzoni's requiem and overature 1812(trumpet) . * shudder* great music but not one rite after the other . My Lips were out after those songs .

erm I would say moonlight sonata third movement by Beethoven on piano.

There's been an aweful lot of show music I've played that's just hard as all hell.

As far as solo stuff or individual pieces... not too sure. "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams was pretty tough (for Solo/1st Trumpet that is).

erm I would say moonlight sonata third movement by Beethoven on piano.

my piano teacher played that for me last lesson, he makes it look so easy :sweat:

hardest piece for piano imo is scherzo no.1 by chopin.

err... toss up between any Chopin etude i've studied and Rachmaninoff 3rd concerto

Considering that I've only been playing for two years, I'd have to say National Emblem

my piano teacher played that for me last lesson, he makes it look so easy :sweat:

hardest piece for piano imo is scherzo no.1 by chopin.

well of course he could make it easy but have you actually ever seen the piece?

Sure I have. I can't play the first bar tho o.O

Err... While none of you will likely know of these, I'd still have to say that the hardest song I've ever had to play is either Cape Classico by Natalie MacMaster (fiddler, not violinist, remember that! xD) or Whistler's Waltz, and who knows who wrote that. >>;

Hm... there might be some other ones but I can't think of them right now...

The hardest song I've recently played for clarinet was Devil went down to Georgia. It wasn't made for clarinet and was super fast. Crazy stuff

So far Nocturne in Eflat Major is the hardest piece I've played on the piano

Manzoni's Requiem, American Salute, Jupiter, Incantation and Dance and Trittico on Bass Clarinet in Highschool. I can't really pick one since all of them took a while to learn...Really great but painful music. -_-'

Kinda hard to say. Definite toss up of the Chopin Sonata No.2 and Rachmaninoff's Prelude No.2 (Bb major)

ignore my other post- i had forgotten Vers la Flamme x_x

urgh... working on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto Op.64 now. Double Stops are killing my fingers. T.T. And the running notes also, 1 mistake and you'll go out of control. ><

My own transcribed piece... Bleach - Senna for the violin ._."
Interchanging the strings tick me off...

Manzoni's Requiem, American Salute, Jupiter, Incantation and Dance and Trittico on Bass Clarinet in Highschool. I can't really pick one since all of them took a while to learn...Really great but painful music. -_-'

Incantation and Dance is an amazing piece. I played it in school last year.

"Mozart Clarinet Concerto" (K.622)... >_< I need private lessons...
"Weber: Concerto #1 in F Minor", III. Rondo

The hardest type of music for me to play is jazz, and blues, and the off-beat kind of crap. Now the hardest song in particular would be "Honky Cat" by Elton John on the piano. It's awful! :bleh:

Hardest for violin would be up to your imagination. :P
but extremely hard conventional classical piece would definitely be Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto, and i mean the whole work! dont just look at the 2nd mvmt! Wiki wrote that this is one of the most technically challenging pieces. ^_^

i'll stick a few flute ones in here

Ibert Flute Concerto 3rd mvt
Jolivet Chant de Linos
Paganini 24 Caprices (flute transcription)

I'm working on a few Chopin Etudes...beautfiul pieces, but completely horrendous to play! I believe I'm on No. 9 at the moment.

urgh... working on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto Op.64 now. Double Stops are killing my fingers. T.T. And the running notes also, 1 mistake and you'll go out of control. ><

yeah double stops can be a pain. have you tried playing Sevcik? I'd have to say the Conus violin concerto Zimbelist version (triplet fingered octaves at quarter note aprox. 120) or Tchaikovsky's famous violin concerto.
For piano, most Rachmaninoff Gershiwn's American in Paris (35 pages non-stop), Great Gate of Kiev from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
For orchestral, try the Rite of Spring.

haha. yea. working on tchaikovsky's violin concerto now. :lol: double stops at freaking fast speed. O.O

Wish my teacher would let me play the tchaikovsky but I'm not at the level yet :heh:

hmmm, why dont you just play it by yourself? just for fun! try it!

ummm..... probably because I'm too busy trying to handle school, violin, piano, and club activities. I'm already learning the Bach Partita3 on my own. Maybe during summer I might try. BTW: this is getting off topic.

THere's another hard piece that I saw my piano teacher playing for a piano,cello, and i think clarinet or flute trio. I don't know the composer or name. It was interesting though since it imitated the sounds of whales but was very difficult since it required reaching into a grand piano and involved a chisel pressed onto the right string while that note is played.

Partita no.3 is nothing compared to Tchaikovsky you know? i prefer tchaikovsky coz it changes alot i guess. compared to baroque music which i found really boring. x_x

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Wish my teacher would let me play the tchaikovsky but I'm not at the level yet :heh:

u mention him XD my teacher startred teaching him to me a week ago. im notused to songs that are kinda slow like this >.< its hard seriously. and my teacher was beasting on me cus i kept messing up the dynamics

Partita no.3 is nothing compared to Tchaikovsky you know? i prefer tchaikovsky coz it changes alot i guess. compared to baroque music which i found really boring. x_x

I know but anyways, I don't even have the music for it. Also, I need to learn the six partitas and sonatas of Bach for colledge applications. I really like Bach. Have you ever tried the Conus violin concerto? Hmmm........ another hard piece would be the Dvorak violin concerto (about same level as Tchaikovsk)y and the red violin chaconne.

i'd love to learn the tchaikovsky piano concerto. tbh its the only thing of his that's ever appealed to me.

shame its so hard. cant be bothered with difficult pieces at the moment, ive gotten so lazy.

I know but anyways, I don't even have the music for it. Also, I need to learn the six partitas and sonatas of Bach for colledge applications. I really like Bach. Have you ever tried the Conus violin concerto? Hmmm........ another hard piece would be the Dvorak violin concerto (about same level as Tchaikovsk)y and the red violin chaconne.

hmmm, haven't tried any of those songs. OMG. all 6 of the partitas and sonatas?? just for college? Are you applying for julliard or what? @_@

some of the lyapunov transcendental etudes are really nasty. harder than the liszt ones anyway x_x

http://www.piano.ru/etudes.html

the first 12 scores are them.

hmmm, haven't tried any of those songs. OMG. all 6 of the partitas and sonatas?? just for college? Are you applying for julliard or what? @_@


some of the lyapunov transcendental etudes are really nasty. harder than the liszt ones anyway x_x

http://www.piano.ru/etudes.html

the first 12 scores are them.

@thorn: lols ouch. I played liszt a while back and thought they were pretty hard. Another hard one (or at least extremely taxing) would be playing all of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition on piano.

@juoin: Not sure but my teacher wants me to learn all of them. The Conus violin concerto isn't played too often. If you do try it, do the Zimbalest edition (if you can find it) it's a lot harder (triplet fingered octaves :heh:).

yeah, individually probably wouldnt be so hard, but all 10 pieces straight (i think there are 10 anyway?) would be a bitch, especially as the last two pieces need more energy than the rest of the suite....and have you seen the fast chord leaps at the end of Great Gate of Kiev? x_x

@that1player: haha, ill be sure to check out the conus concerto next time i drop by the music shop. Hmm, im not really sure but i remember seeing on Julliard's audition requirements that a violinist is expected to play any 1 of Bach's Partitas or Sonatas except Partita no.2. :\

Mine was "Chorale and Shaker Dance" with Piccolo, and Flute when there are many rests.

... My lips where pretty much numb, and I started to cry after the third time in a row. ;D

@that1player: haha, ill be sure to check out the conus concerto next time i drop by the music shop. Hmm, im not really sure but i remember seeing on Julliard's audition requirements that a violinist is expected to play any 1 of Bach's Partitas or Sonatas except Partita no.2. :\

hm... anyways, my teacher wants me to learn all six if possible.

Woah! well, gd luck with that! haha. after your done with that, maybe you can try tchaikovsky! :P

The hardest piece I've played for the clarinet was the dance of the jesters, but it's been years since I last even picked up a clarinet
I've been learning the violin and guitar recently, so the most complicate thing i've done is scales
on the piano, I would say the hardest piece i've played would either be gackt's eutde or the half of yoshiki's without you that i can do

Roses and Butterflies on the piano defiantly. Took me a good while to figure out and still haven't gotten all of it.. but I'm determined to play the whole thing somedayyy.

Anddd anything on the guitar right now. Just picked up the guitar a week ago so I'm obviously having trouble ;_;

Woah! well, gd luck with that! haha. after your done with that, maybe you can try tchaikovsky! :P
I might not have to play all six though.
I want to play it but my teacher said I have to play Bach, Kobalevsky concerto in C Major, Saint Saens violin concerto and possibly the Mendehlson. After that I will probably play the tchaikovsky or red violin Chaconne

The Hardest piece I played was The One winged Angel full version.:P

Sun from Dark Chronicle, as a band of course, the piano for it was taken so i had to do the bagpipes and boy, bagpipes are extremely exhausting to play, especially since you have to hang on to alot of the notes at the first part of the piece and then go into crazy solo puffing away. Youtube Dark Chronicle - Sun if you don't believe it's as hard as i say it is.

urgh... working on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto Op.64 now. Double Stops are killing my fingers. T.T. And the running notes also, 1 mistake and you'll go out of control. ><

well ive been playing the violin for about 9 years now (since i was 4) and so far the hardest piece ive played was the Dvorak violin concerto in a minor with the national youth symphony orchestra of ireland.... but i also think that Giuseppe Tartini Devil's Trill is pretty damn hard i must say lol....!! oh and we did the Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto op. 64 in e minor as well.... it isn't that hard but the string crossing is a bitch! :heh:

The new song is always the hardest, but Passion (Kingdom hearts) on this website took me 2 years to learn

Le Campanella, by Franz Liszt. U need to stretch long octaves.

erm I would say moonlight sonata third movement by Beethoven on piano.

Why?
A majority of the sixteenths is just one handed arpeggios.
It really isn't virtuoistic material.

Listz's Transcendental Etude No. 10 ("Appasoinato") is probably the hardest peice I've performed.
However, I know the Rhapsody in Blue, and going fifteen minutes without making a mistake in a piece like that...bleck. It's hard.
I just haven't performed it.

I'm definitely not as accomplished a pianist as most of the forum members, but I enjoy playing a little "tribute to C# minor"

Fantaisie Impromptu
Moonlight Sonata 3rd Mvmt.
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Although I wouldn't exactly call the Chopin and Beethoven music easy, it's most certainly not as taxing as the piece by Liszt. To be quite honest I haven't studied any of Liszt's other pieces and I'm sure there are some bigger doozies then that one.

Mazzepa is hard.