But like the rest of the transitional composers, they composed early-romantic music but they weren’t early-romantic composers, if that makes any sense.
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It totally does. Several of them weren’t romantics naturally, they just tried to keep up with the times. The ones above in the OP however (minus Ignaz) were more or less born in to it.
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LH mofos always interest me. I will be sure to listen to that guy’s stuff
Recordings are rare.
I am a bit surprised that nobody has mentioned John Field as an important transitional composer, with all his influence on Chopin and whatnot!
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What a mofo! This must be one who has flown under my radar, as much time as I spent on this era in my teens and 20s I certainly don’t remember playing through anything this weird.
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I think that’s his best work. The Robert le Diable for left hand only is also absolutely staggering in a pianistic sense. I simply can’t play some parts of it at all.
Prolific composer too - I doubt I’ve tried any of these but I have 16 works by him, the highest opus number is 106.
106 iirc is Robert.
Yes
Hardest op 106 I know of 
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Hahaha daim
Zhorely da muzical content a more appropriate guideline than da random year of birth sheeyat.
Othawize u end up leaving Brahmz out but includin mofoz lyk da Wagnah 
Dedicated to Liszt no less
Yup. I always felt that was part dedication, part challenge…
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But Wagner’s not a piano composer, and really the comparison should’ve been only Liszt, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann but this being the SDC would mean that people would complain about no Alkan and sheeyat
part bizinezz dizzizion 
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Damn straight we would
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I would love to see it done on video.
I’m not exaggerating when I say I think it’s kanconc level difficulty. Maybe it’s just my crap lh tech 
Is it much harder than Alkan Op.76 no.1?
I would say that it is. Maybe not much harder. Some places are accessible and others are just completely insane.