Grandes Études de Paganini No. 3, "La Campanella", S.141/3 (Small-Hand Edition)-Franz Liszt
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- Performance Video
- Difficulty: Expert
- 12 Pages
Key Information
- Instrument 1
- Piano
- Pages
- 12
- Difficulty
- Expert
- Type
- 2 Staves
- Instrumentation
- Solo
- Lyrics
- Not included
- Chord
- Not included
- Key
- 5 sharps
- Time signature
- 6/8 (3 meter changes)
- Measures
- 145 measures
- Range
- D♯1 – F♯7
- Max voices
- 3 voices
Description
A PLAYABLE PIANO Small-Hand Edition of Franz Liszt's Grandes Études de Paganini No. 3, "La Campanella" (S.141/3), redesigned for pianists with smaller hands (PDF + MusicXML).
This is not a simplified or beginner arrangement. The goal is to preserve the original musical character, texture, and difficulty while redesigning selected physical hand-size barriers.
"La Campanella" is known for its bell-like high repeated notes, wide leaps, and left-hand chords that spread beyond a comfortable octave. Transcribed and collated by hand from public-domain scans of the Breitkopf & Haertel first edition (Leipzig, plate 8368, c. 1851; IMSLP #67996), this edition keeps the notes, rhythms, words, and dynamics of the first edition apart from the numbered changes and source notes documented in the PDF. Only in the passages where the notes one hand plays or holds together span more than 12 semitones (one octave) in the first edition, notes are moved to the other hand, chords are rolled low to high, notes are released earlier, and editorial pedal markings are added in brackets. The right-hand bell leaps stay as printed. The musical character and texture are preserved while selected hand-size barriers — the stretches beyond a comfortable octave — are redesigned.
- Hand redistribution (r.h.): 23 notes
- Left-hand chords rolled from low to high: 17 instances (in 10 numbered groups)
- Early-release groups: 8
- Editorial pedal markings shown in brackets: 3 (changes 10, 16, 22)
- Right-hand bell leaps: kept as printed in the first edition
- Every editorial change is numbered in the score (1-23) and documented bar by bar in the Editorial Changes pages at the end of the PDF score, which also carry source notes 24-25
Designed for pianists who can handle the musical and technical demands of the original work, but are limited by selected stretches beyond a comfortable octave.
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