if you don,t mind can you list some of your best peaces that you have learned and list some that you think i should learn becaues some people say learn well known peaces like moonlight sonata first movement and things like that but
i want my playing to improve alot
because i started at a later stage
i was 19 when i started and now 22 nealy 23 and i want to strenthen my thingers because people say you have to develope alot of strenth because of starting at a later age.

just to let you guys know..im a different alex from the one who posted above me..chopin?..the first ballade is definetely not the hardest piece ever..its not even the hardest piece in the movie "the pianist"...the hardest piece in that movie is the grande brilliante polonaise..which is played at the very end..i played that piece...trust me..THATS hard..theres just one damn measure that repeats..which r double thirds and is like impossible to play perfect..and ur the other alex helpin out mr.Derrick?anyway..here are my 5 recent learned pieces
1.Chopin-Grande Brilliante Polonaise
2.Rachmaninov-Barcarolle in g minor
3.Brahms-capriccio in d minor no.7 op.116
4.Medelssohn-Song W.O. Words(Venetian Boat Songs}
5.Rachmaninov-Piano Concerto No.2 Mvt.1 and Mvt.2(workin on the easy 3rd movement...jk

just to let you guys know..im a different alex from the one who posted above me..chopin?..the first ballade is definetely not the hardest piece ever..its not even the hardest piece in the movie "the pianist"...the hardest piece in that movie is the grande brilliante polonaise..which is played at the very end..i played that piece...trust me..THATS hard..theres just one damn measure that repeats..which r double thirds and is like impossible to play perfect..and ur the other alex helpin out mr.Derrick?anyway..here are my 5 recent learned pieces
1.Chopin-Grande Brilliante Polonaise
2.Rachmaninov-Barcarolle in g minor
3.Brahms-capriccio in d minor no.7 op.116
4.Medelssohn-Song W.O. Words(Venetian Boat Songs}
5.Rachmaninov-Piano Concerto No.2 Mvt.1 and Mvt.2(workin on the easy 3rd movement...jk

I know a very hard piece which is Playing love from Ennio Morricone.

Try these:
Prokofiev- Toccatta
Beethoven-Sonata`29(hammerklavier)
Liszt`s transcription of `Tanhauser`

Yeah I agree with the other big headed guys around here-none of the pieces that have been mentioned so far are actually that hard to play. La Campanella is quite a short piece and so are all of the chopin etudes. The hard pieces are La Valse by Ravel and Mephisto Walze No. 1 by Liszt.

nadir..im currently learning that prokofiev toccata..it is so much fun...have u learned the whole piece yet?..anyway..yea piano guy ur right about la campanella and the Chopin etudes..but I wouldnt consider Liszt`s memphisto waltz among,lets say, the top 5 hardest solo piano pieces ever...i havent really tried playing the hard parts of that piece so actually "i" have no say in this..but many will agree that it isnt as hard as Jeux d`eau ...Gaspard de la Nuit..or Islamey..

What about that Scriabin one where the the left hand alone, with both hands, is a concert piece, this is it.

Op.9, No.2: Nocturne, I don`t know about the likes of you but it looks farcically hard, I`m only 15 though.

http://www.music-scores.com/scriabin/composer.php?pageNum_composer=1&totalRows_composer=17

Hi.

It must be John Stump - Faeries Aire and Death Waltz
You can download page 1 here: http://www.sheets.dk/noder/j/John%20Stump%20-%20faeries%20aire%20and%20death%20waltz.zip
And page 2 here: 20Faerie`s%20Aire%20And%20Death%20Waltz%20(page%202).JPEG

It`s not really a piano piece, and the second page is from a different work, there`s only 1 page of it.

dude two years...i`m been playin 8 years but count it as 4 since my previous ones were idiots


the hardest piece is warsaw concerto

hey..sorry dude..but im gonna have to disagree i dont think the warsaw concerto is the hardest piece at all

If you want a hard piece that sound cool as hell as well, try the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata (the 2nd movement is the popular 1).

`Piano Sonata No 14 In C Sharp Minor, Opus 27`

sorry mate but the first movement of moonlight is the most well known
one and the third movement isnt that hard i was playing that when i was taking my grade 7

you can`t tell by looking at or listening what the hardest piece is. Some *black* pieces are remarkably easy, while ones that look easy are hard. for example, Bach is transparent, but to play it well is difficult. I went to a piano competition as a listener and the players played prokofiev, beethoven sonatas, chopin pieces all brilliantly but there was not a half decent prelude and fugue!
i know for flute ( i am not really a pianist, about RCM gr 9 level, I have a bmus in flute/theory), the fast and furious pieces that sound brilliant are usually easier than the slow pieces that sound easy. Plus for me, I am a technical player on flute with a lot of dexterity. I can play anything tecnicall so the fast pieces are not a problem, but the musicality of slower ones is more challenging.

speed does not necessarily equal difficulty