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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Maybe the Hardest Piece of Piano Music Ever Written

We think this might be the hardest piece of piano music ever written


Pianists everywhere, prepare yourself for possibly the most demanding piece of piano music ever written. *gulps*
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s Opus clavicembalistic
This is a section of the score from Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s Opus clavicembalisticum. It’s hard to pronounce, but even harder to play.
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For a start, it lasts for over four hours in total, spread across 12 movements. That would be bad enough if it was dead easy to play, but of course, it’s much worse. It’s  a fiend.

Don’t let the first bar fool you - here’s the opening movement:
And here’s the final one, about which the composer himself wrote: “The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done—the harmony bites like nitric acid—the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God.”

Read more at http://www.classicfm.com/instruments/piano/features/hardest-piano-music-ever-written/#9gefP6ORJuuh3Vam.99