Including pieces titled "Heroide-elegiaque," "The Carnival at Pest," and "Rakoczy March," the most renowned one may be the second, notable for its extreme technical difficulty.
The fifth of these pieces, a funeral march, is the only one to retain the same tempo marking throughout. The eleventh of these pieces uses delicate tremolos and sixty-fourth-note configurations to mimic the sound of a cimbalom. These pieces are structured in the verbunkos style, and open with a lassan, or slow beginning, followed by a friska, or fast conclusion. Including pieces titled "Heroide-elegiaque," "The Carnival at Pest," and "Rakoczy March," the most renowned one may be the second, notable for its extreme technical difficulty. For 10 points, name this series of nineteen piano pieces based on folk themes of the Magyars, composed by Franz Liszt.
The fifth of these pieces, a funeral march, is the only one to retain the same tempo marking throughout.
Hungarian Rhapsodies [or Magyar rapsodiak]