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Introduction
Analysis
Performance
Reception
Explaining the Most Bizarre Piano Etude of the 19th Century
Beethoven’s Improvisations
The Gelinek Duel
The Piano Duel
The Himmel Duel
The Steibelt Duel
What Beethoven’s Duels Reveal
The most unserious piano piece
Intro
Epilogue
The positive theme
The Duet
The first episode
The other concertos
The return
The resolution
The negative theme
Criticisms
Strange Fugues
The Art of Varying
A Modern Spectacle
The Lost Versions
Paganini's Vienna Debut
The Paganini Craze
Reicha's Background and Career
Fantasy on a Single Chord
The Competition
Bach
Showing seams
Different legacies
When Grieg met Liszt, then challenged him to sight-read his Piano Concerto
Background and structure
The evocation
Liszt Hears Paganini
The Clochette Fantasy
Liszt's Paganini Etudes
The Leaping Passage
The 1851 Version
The Value of Reicha's Piano Works
The Variations
The Most Absurd Piano Variations of the 19th Century
Changing Bach's score
Episode
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Theme
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