What Is The Most Difficult Piano Piece Ever Written?
Every pianist will have their own challenges technically with pieces but more importantly, difficulty should also be measured on musicianship but is often not. Usually the technique is challenged first because you can’t express yourself musically with out getting hold of the notes. Alkan’s music is difficult but many wouldn’t consider it the most challenging. It more considered a waste of time as there is little music value in it however the works for L.H. he wrote are ridiculously hard an almost absurd in a way. Liszt’s music is quite accessible. I don’t know why people think his music is difficult. Remember, he is a pianist and all his music is composed in a way that pianist can accomplish even the most difficult passages with practice. Every pattern fits in the hand and nothing is awkward. If pianists have trouble with Liszt, it means they have trouble playing scales, chords and arpeggios. The Transcendental Etudes have challenges but are not the hardest pieces. I’ve studied all of
