Week 1: Choose your piece!

Hey everyone! 🎹

Welcome to Lisztomaniac: The Transcendental Challenge! For the next four weeks, we're all spending time with Franz Liszt together, in the same place, at the same time.

When people hear "Liszt," they think flying octaves and impossible showpieces. Some of you will absolutely be taking those on. But Liszt wrote beautiful music at every level, and this challenge is about exploring all corners of it: a Consolation, a Liebestraum, a piece from Years of Pilgrimage, a song transcription, a Hungarian Rhapsody, or one of the great virtuoso works if you're feeling bold.

This week: choose one Liszt piece, or one excerpt, to stay with for the month.

A few ideas:

• A piece you've always wanted to learn
• A shorter Liszt work that feels approachable
• A beautiful excerpt from a bigger dream piece
• Something that stretches your sound, imagination or technique

Share below: what you chose, why, and where you're starting from. A rough first read is perfect. No clip required. And check in on each other's posts too; we're doing this as a group.

Question for the week: what is it about this piece that made you pick it?

Dates: Nov 16 – Dec 13

• Kickoff livestream: Tue Nov 17, 11am PT (event link). Bring your questions, or post them here.
• Watch Party: Mon Dec 14, 11am PT (event link), featuring your recorded submissions. 🎥

Let the Lisztomania begin!