La Campanella (Paganini-Liszt)

When I search mostly about difficult piano pieces in Youtube, usually I see this song in related posts about the song I searched. They call it, "La Campanella, Paganini-Liszt." Well, there is a story between me and that song. When I saw the title in Youtube, the title just came in my mind, but I did not listen to the song. When every time I trip, or get surprised, or some major or minor problem is coming, I usually say, "Ah LA CAMPELLA!" Before, usually I say "Campella" instead of "Campanella" because the spelling of the song did not got in my mind that much and yes, some European languages are hard to pronounce, like Italian and French.

Just this morning, I searched Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the 3rd movement in Youtube because it is the piece that I am going to play next in the piano, and again I saw La Campanella in the related posts. Then that made curious. I was expecting something unexpected in the song. First it was played a bit slowly and mysteriously, when it came to the middle part, the song went up and down the keyboard fast. It was AWESOME!!!!

The La Campanella is a violin concerto composed by Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) which was translated by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in the piano. When I heard the violin concerto La Campanella by Paganini, the violin was too staccato, some pizzicatos, and it was complicated. But Paganini as a great violinist, I say, his song is a work of a genius.

Truly, Liszt is a great pianist and a genius. He had revised a lot of non piano concertos and symphonies into an epic piano solo. His revised version of the La Campanella shows his genius and as a virtuoso in the piano. Oh, I really want to be like them. What an awesome feeling if I were in their time.

About me.

Hi, I am Iolo, and I am 13 years old, height is 5 ft. and 2 in., weight is 40 kilos, I am obsessed to classical music, also obsessed to minions, and I always forget to drink my vitamins and also sleep at noon. I was born July 28, 2000, of course, year of the dragon and I am born in the Republic of the Philippines. I am home schooled, my friends are home schooled (yeah, yeah, too obvious), and I'm just grade 6. I am supposed to be grade 7 for now, but the past times I was adjusting, due to that I got used to conventional schools and it is hard for me to do "independent studying." But nowadays I got used to it.


I wanted to study the violin when I was 8, but Teacher Ayen, a friend of my mom, suggests that if I wanted to study violin, I should start at the piano first. After a few days, I told myself that I wanted to be really good in the piano, but the fact I lacked practice and love for doing it did not made me good that easy. When I was 10, mom introduced me to classical music, and it changed my whole life, realizing what my talent was. Starting that time, I really loved classical music and I always practiced the piano with passion, which sometimes my hands are on the keyboard for 5 hours. From all the classical composer I know, my favorite is Beethoven, because his music is very unique and it shows great passion despite that he is deaf.

But though classical music is my pre-occupation, my parents always told me that in all things and all my talents, I shall glorify, thank, and praise God and give myself to Him, because He is the One who gave my talent of music.