Hello all. Can someone please explain why adding codas of the pianist's own imagination is acceptable? And why is it that only Liszt's compositions receive the crazy endings? I never heard of someone adding in their own coda for Chopin's pieces or Beethoven or or or or...! Quite frankly I think codas are garbage. The Liszt Piano competition is a hypocrite. In the rules it specifies that arrangements will not be acceptable. However listen to this recording. Clearly this dumb@$$, the winner of the competition, added in his own flavor. Absolute crap! (http://www.liszt.nl/nederlands/2002Jean ... dyNo.2.mp3) As you can tell, I am strongly biased. I believe that the true beauty lies in the execution of the piece not by murdering a composition with a coda the pianist created.