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What is the most DIFFICULT piece of music? (Patreon)

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2017-12-09 07:59:37

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Hello to all of you Patreon people!

First of all, I'm actually done with a video a couple days before my Monday deadline! I've been working on so many things simultaneously for so many months that I never seem to be able to work ahead long enough, but today...I have a video ready a whole 2 days-ish early. Amazing!

Anyway, this video was originally supposed to be kind of a "filler" video meant to bide my time in between more substantive videos, but like basically everything that starts as filler, I couldn't help but start adding more and more until it became a full fledged video essay. It actually could have been a lot more, too!

In this video, I explore what virtuosity even is, and why we should care what the most difficult piece of music is. I give my best guess as to what I personally think it is, and some reasons why that may be.

Hope you guys enjoy!

Adam

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What is the most DIFFICULT piece of music?

It's hard to even begin to quantify what the "most difficult piece of music" is, but if we look at it through the lens of Physical Virtuosity and Conceptual Virtuosity, we can at least get a good idea of what difficult in music even means, and what are some contenders for the most difficult piece of music. 𝄢 Kyle Gann’s take on Ben Johnston’s 7th String Quartet http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2010/03/the_mount_everest_of_string_qu.html 𝄢 Cristina Deutekom slaying the Queen of the Night like some sort of robot synthesizer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQpTGKXAxqA 𝄢 ALASH (Tuvan Throat Singing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHdOT64Ycwc 𝄢 YEFIM BRONFMAN (Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 3 in D Minor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkAwFDZGHk 𝄢 Paganini Caprice no. 24 performed by Alexander Markov (absolutely badass!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ307sM0t-0 𝄢 ERUPTION covers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTt38Bc85o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6SmY04WdE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1HcxELJzTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2WHk4C9OTg 𝄢 Covers of THE BLACK PAGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7qf8M6DiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNE4iX2i10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROmJx_S4EMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFfWD96y06c 𝄢 Covers of Failing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD6GVuESgPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzBY_qC8Oc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9kjso91MPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P8C6-XqaNs&t=126s ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! (what I’m wearing in the vid) ⦿ https://teespring.com/stores/adam-neely-merchandise ⦿ SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ⦿ http://www.patreon.com/adamneely ⦿ FOLLOW ME ON THE INTERNETS ⦿ http://www.facebook.com/adamneely http://www.instagram.com/its_adamneely ⦿ Check out some of my music ⦿ http://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com http://insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com http://adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com Peace, Adam