Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Piano Visualizer
The friska of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 as falling notes on a glowing keyboard. Restyle it and export the video, or drop your own recording or MIDI file.
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 at a glance
- Work
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S. 244 No. 2
- Composer
- Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
- Composed
- 1847
- Published
- 1851
- Key
- C♯ minor, ending in F♯ major
- Tempo
- A slow lassan, then the fast friska
- Difficulty
- Advanced to virtuoso
- The demo plays
- The friska, the fast dance that ends the rhapsody, 71 s
What you see in the falling notes
The friska starts light and high in the treble and keeps adding notes: from about seven a second at the start to more than twenty by the end, so the sky fills up as the dance speeds up. Most of it stays in the right half of the keyboard, while the bass joins in with heavier chords as it builds.
- 998notes
- 14.1notes per second on average
- 28notes in the busiest second
- 6notes sounding at once, at most
- C#2 to C#761 keys from the lowest note to the highest
- 14%of the notes below middle C, in the left-hand colour
Counted from the MIDI file of the demo excerpt (71 s). The sustain pedal goes down 78 times.
About Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Liszt wrote the second of his nineteen Hungarian Rhapsodies in 1847 and published it in 1851, dedicated to Count László Teleki. Like the others, it is built on the music of the Romani bands of Hungary, in two parts: a slow, proud lassan and a fast friska that keeps speeding up to the end.
It became one of the most famous piano pieces of all, and not only in concert halls: in 1946 and 1947 it was the music of two classic cartoons, Bugs Bunny in "Rhapsody Rabbit" and Tom and Jerry in "The Cat Concerto". Liszt also arranged it for orchestra.
MIDI of the demo: Bernd Krueger, piano-midi.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. Videos made from it carry the same credit and licence (terms). How to make one: step by step.
Famous pieces in falling notes
Frequently Asked Questions
The two parts of a Hungarian verbunkos dance that Liszt follows in his rhapsodies: the lassan is slow and proud, the friska is fast and keeps accelerating. The demo plays the friska.
Advanced to virtuoso. The friska asks for fast repeated notes, leaps and full chords at a tempo that keeps rising, and many pianists add their own cadenza.
Yes. The composition is in the public domain, but the MIDI file of this demo is by Bernd Krueger (piano-midi.de) under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, so a video made from it has to credit him, for example "MIDI: Bernd Krueger, piano-midi.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE", and be shared under the same licence. With your own recording or MIDI file of the piece, only your rights to that file count.
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