Wiki entry: Franz Liszt
International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) is widely recognised as one of the great pianists of all time. Many of his piano pieces, in particular, have a fearsome reputation.
Piece | MP3 | Midi | Genre |
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La Campanella | MIDI | piano virtuoso | |
La Campanella, the `little bell', is an arrangement for solo piano by
Liszt of the third movement, rondo, of Paganini's second violin concerto.
Paganini was a famous violinist, alleged to have been in league with the Devil,
such was his demonic style and appearance. Composed in 1851 as the third of Liszt's Grandes Etudes de Paganini; revised from an earlier version of 1838. Sequenced from a copy in my library, published by Breitkopf & Hartel, and checked against versions in IMSLP. | |||
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 | MIDI | duet salon classical | |
This is the most famous, and most abused, of Liszt's Ungarische Rhapsodien.
It consists, as usual, of two parts, a slow Lassan and
a fast Friska. This particular version is a `simplified' [ha!] version for piano duet, as arranged by Franz Bendel von Lothar Windsperger [1833-1874], a pupil of Liszt, perhaps in 1872. A lot of the original is more-or-less left in, but it goes completely off the rails in places. Sequenced initially in 2001 from a copy of the Schott edition in my collection. A number of evident mistakes have been corrected, a few possibly intended ones left in! Pedalling, for example, is often not to my taste, but is as marked. | |||
Hungarian Rhapsody No 11 | MIDI | CD1 piano classical virtuoso | |
Liszt's Ungarische Rhapsodien XI in A minor was written in 1847
and published in 1853. It is dedicated to Baron Fery Orczy [1835-92,
a very minor composer, better known as the father of Baroness Orczy,
author and political activist who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel,
the book of a play first performed in Nottingham in 1903]. Like most of the Hungarian Rhapsodies, it is two parts, slow and fast. Here each half is also divided into two parts; firstly a Lento a capriccio emulating a zither, followed by an Andante sostenuto; and in the second half a spiky Vivace assai which builds to a Prestissimo. Sequenced primarily from the Peters Edition, edited by Emil von Sauer. IMSLP also has a 1973 Urtext edition, which I looked at briefly, but haven't used seriously. |
Sequencing: Copyright © Andy Walker, 2020. You may use all my work freely for private purposes; commercial use is permitted only with my permission.
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