Probably no other response is possible witnessing something like this- and this from the composer himself! I think I laughed- laughed like a child." He was literally all over the whole piano at once, without missing a note, and how he played! With grandeur, beauty, genius, unique complehension. The violin part got its due right in the middle of the piano part. Grieg himself writes "And what does Liszt do? He plays the whole thing, root and brach, violin and piano, nay, more for he played fuller, more broadly. The Grieg story is true and Grieg himself wrote about having brought his violin sonata to Liszt (which Liszt had never heard or seen) and Liszt played the piano AND violin part (sight reading- first view). " Liszt could do tricks so awesome that in a well-regulated society he would instantly have been burned at the stake for sorcery", for example hear a complex piece of music once and then play it back without seeing the music. Schonberg writes in "The Great Pianists" that Liszt was undoubtedly one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) sight readers who ever lived, among his other amazing pianistic gifts.
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