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Not Islamey, Not Rach 3, Not Scarbo, Not EVEN Opus Clavicembalisticum.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you:

CIRCUS GALOP!!

There's Hamelin himself performing a part of it....I love the last section where multiple repeating melodies stack themselves up (where you have like 12 staves eventually playing simultaneously!), and then a few seconds of madness, and then the "fatal accident".

The handwritten score is fascinating to read!

Um personally I don't think it sounds all that good. Maybe that's just because I can't get over the fact that it is so ridiculous, lol.

So it's almost impossible, amirite

Doesn't he specify that Circus Galop is a piece for player piano?

I think it's hilarious. I like when the main theme returns with all the glissandi! Sounds like a noisy casino, I think.

You're right! It DOES sound like a noisy casino! I imagine slot machines consistently whirring, lights flashing everywhere, some clowns frolicking about--wait, a second...I guess it sounds like clowns, because it's about clowns! Silly me...

"The Most Difficult Piece of Piano Music"

so player pianos aren't pianos too? :P

This is totally 8-bit music.. except a Nintendo couldn't do polyphony.

What's so difficult? All you do is insert a roll into a player piano.