Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12" Performance Analysis

Liszt is a most representative pianist and composer of piano music in the Romanticism period.He has made extrude contributions in every music fields such as piano playing, music creation, music criticism and teaching,therefore,he is known as the "King of piano".One of Liszt's most representative works is "Hungarian Rhapsody",which reflects the bold,optimistic and enthusiastic national characters of Hungarians,and the twelfth is a relatively famous one in this work.This article takes this work as the research object,taking the performance analysis as the breakthrough point and trying to analyze the performance of this work from multiple angles,in order to get a better understanding and better performance of this work.The full text is divided into three parts to discuss.The first part gives a brief summary of Liszt and "Hungarian Rhapsody".The second part analyzes this work from the musical form and structures.The third part is the primary coverage of this article,which analyzes the performance from six aspects,including octave and chord,cadenzas,various dual tone,remote jump,grace notes and pedal.What's more,this part also combined with the author's own performing experience,striving to get deep-going study and understanding of Liszt and his piano music.