

In episode 13, after Kousei played Love's Sorrow, he played this one song on
the piano. What is the name of that song? I've been looking for it for the
past four hours, but haven't been able to find it.


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In episode 13, what piece does Kousei play after he plays Liebesleid?


That is Sergei Rachmaninoff - Liebesfreud(Kreisler, arr. Rachmaninov).


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I'm assuming you're referring to the piece Kousei plays at the very end of the
episode; this is the only instance where Kousei plays the piano in ep. 13
after his "Liebesleid" performance. I recognised this as a **Chopin**
composition, possibly a nocturne.

After some searching, I found that this was **Nocturne no. 2 in D-flat minor,
op. 27**. ([
_Score_](http://imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/9/92/IMSLP115009-PMLP02305-mendelssohn_op16no2_sibley.1802.2379.pdf),
_[recording](https://youtu.be/SFMgSwcgaRE) by Eric Lu at the 2015 Chopin
Competition_.) It should be relatively easy to recognise the piece if you have
some prior familiarity with it, since Kousei starts playing at the very
beginning.

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Originally, I wondered if some other piece (such as "Liebesfreud", which is
named [in another answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/29083/2604) as the
piece Kousei plays) might have crept into the soundtrack at some point,
perhaps in a flashback or in Kousei's reflections. However, after listening
carefully to the soundtrack and checking [the "Liebesleid"
score](http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/scores/rachmaninoff/liebesleid/#/02) and
[some recordings](https://youtu.be/j97z3ffswd8), I've confirmed that
everything we hear during the performance segment is from Rachmaninoff's
"Liebesleid". Thus, the only music for piano that we hear being played in this
episode is "Liebesleid" and the Chopin nocturne.

Note that what viewers hear is a _modified_ , lengthened version of the
Rachmaninoff arrangment. (The soundtrack returns to the beginning of the piece
right before the first key change, when we see Kousei underwater. This jump
does not exist in the original score. There are similar jumps later, during
the flashback with Saki after Kousei has lashed out at her, and when Saki
reflects on Kousei.)


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