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.