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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Ferencz Liszt, in modern usage Ferenc Liszt, from 1859 to 1865 officially Franz Ritter von Liszt) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. He was also the father-in-law of Richard Wagner.
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Hungarian Rhapsodies
The Hungarian Rhapsodies, S.244, R106, (French: Rhapsodies hongroises, German: Ungarische Rhapsodien, Hungarian: Magyar rapszódiák) is a set of 19 piano pieces based on Hungarian folk themes, composed by Franz Liszt during 1846-1853, and later in...
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Transcendental Etudes
The Transcendental Etudes (French: Études d'exécution transcendante), S.139, are a series of twelve compositions written for solo piano by Franz Liszt in 1852. They are revisions and simplifications of a set of pieces published in 1837 called Douze...
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Années de Pèlerinage
Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) (S.160, S.161, S.163) is a set of three suites by Franz Liszt for solo piano. Liszt's complete musical style is evident in this masterwork, which ranges from virtuosic fireworks to sincerely moving...
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Totentanz
Totentanz. Paraphrase on "Dies irae." (English: Dance of Death), S.126, is the name of a symphonic piece for solo piano and orchestra by Franz Liszt, which is notable for being based on the Gregorian plainchant melody Dies Irae as well as for daring...
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Etude in Twelve Exercises
Etudes in Twelve Exercises, S.136, is a set of études written by Franz Liszt in 1826 when he was a teenager. These were developed into the revised Douze Grandes Etudes in 1837, which in turn were later thinned and slightly simplified into the...
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Mephisto Waltzes
The Mephisto Waltzes are four waltzes composed by Franz Liszt in 1859-62, 1880-81, 1883 and 1885. Nos. 1-2 were composed for orchestra, later arranged for piano, piano duet and two pianos, whereas 3 and 4 were written for piano only. Of the four,...
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Sonata in B minor
The Piano Sonata in B minor (German: Klaviersonate h-Moll), S.178, is a musical composition for solo piano by Franz Liszt, published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann. It is often considered Liszt's greatest and most technically and...
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Nuages Gris
Nuages Gris (French, lit. Grey Clouds), S.199, is a piano solo composed by Franz Liszt in 1881. In his later years he became more experimental, and unlike most of his works that are virtuoso in nature, this one is quite short and technically simple....
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Three Concert Etudes
Trois Études de Concert, S.144, are a series of three piano etudes by Franz Liszt, composed circa 1848. They are intended not only for the acquirement of a better technique, but also for concert performance. They include:
Un Sospiro, an etude for...
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Un Sospiro
"Un Sospiro" (Italian, for "a sigh") is the third of Franz Liszt's Trois Études de Concert (Three Concert Etudes). It is also sometimes referred to as Etude No. 39, and is a piano solo in D-flat major. However, it is likely that the title did not...
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Faust Symphony
A Faust Symphony in three character pictures (German: Eine Faust-Symphonie in drei Charakterbildern), S.108, or simply the "Faust Symphony", was written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and was inspired by Johann von Goethe's drama, Faust. The...
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- 1857
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Piano Concerto No. 1
Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. The concerto consists of four movements, which are performed without breaks in between,...
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Concerto pathetique
The Concerto pathétique, written in 1865, (S.258/R.356), is Franz Liszt's most substantial and ambitious two-piano work (without orchestra). At least two (solo) piano concerto arrangements of the work by other composers have the same title.
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Dante Symphony
A Symphony to Dante's Divine Commedia, S.109, or simply the "Dante Symphony", is a program symphony composed by Franz Liszt. Written in the high romantic style, it is based on Dante Alighieri's journey through Hell and Purgatory, as depicted in The...
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Grandes Etudes de Paganini
The Grandes Etudes de Paganini are a series of six etudes for the piano by Franz Liszt, revised in 1851 from an earlier version (published as Études d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S.140, in 1838). It is almost exclusively in the final...
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Piano Concerto No. 2
Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A Major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it...
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- 1861
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Funérailles
Funérailles is an elegy written in October 1849 in response to the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by the Habsburgs, is the 7th piece in the collection of piano pieces by Franz Liszt entitled Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses (Poetic...
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Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses
Most of the piano pieces known by the generic title Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Poetic and Religious Harmonies) were composed at Woronince (Voronyntsi, Ukrainian country estate of Liszt’s mistress Princess Jeanne Elisabeth Carolyne von Sayn...
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Dante Sonata
Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (French for After a Reading of Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata; also Dante Sonata) is a piano sonata in one movement, completed by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1849. It was first published in 1856...
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Transcendental Etude No. 4 in D minor
Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 4 in D minor, "Mazeppa", is the fourth Transcendental Etude, and is a highly difficult and virtuosic staple of the Romantic Era repertoire. It was inspired by Victor Hugo's dramatically morbid poem Mazeppa, in...
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Dem Andenken Petöfis
Dem Andenken Petőfis (its original Hungarian title was "Petőfi szellemének") is a piece for piano by Liszt, written in 1877. It is an elegy, like many of Liszt's works. This was written in memory of the Hungarian poet Sándor Petöfi, whose poems...
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- 1877
Hexameron
Hexaméron, Morceau de concert, S.392, is a set of six variations for solo piano elaborately composed by Franz Liszt and five other composers in 1837. The piece was commissioned by Princess Belgiojoso and was first performed at her salon.
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Transcendental Etude No. 12 in B flat minor
Transcendental Etude No. 12 in B flat minor is an étude for piano written by composer Franz Liszt. It has the programmatic title "Chasse-Neige", ("impetuous winds which raise whirls of snow") and is the 12th and last of the Transcendental Etudes....
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Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2, is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, and is by far the most famous of the set. Few other piano solos have achieved such widespread popularity, offering the pianist the...
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Grand galop chromatique
Franz Liszt’s Grand galop chromatique, S.219, from 1838 in E-flat major is one of his typical bravura pieces that would have brought the house down during his European concert tours. Liszt is not the only composer who has written flashy galops....
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Slavimo Slavno Slaveni!
Slavimo Slavno Slaveni! (or Slavimo Slavno Sloveni!) (Let's Celebrate Famous Slavs!), R 196, S 503, LW A223, is a piece by Franz Liszt based on a work by the Dubrovnik poet Medo Pucić, composed for the Millennium celebration of the arrival of Slavic...
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Christus
Christus (S.3, composed 1862-1866) is an oratorio by the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. The oratorio takes the traditional plot of Christ's life from his birth to his passion and resurrection, using Bible texts, and is thus somewhat...
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- 1866
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Sposalizio
Sposalizio is the title of the first piece in Franz Liszt's Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie (Second year of Pilgrimage: Italy), published in 1858. The composition starts out with a simple pentatonic melody, which transforms itself into a...
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Les Préludes
Les Préludes is the third of Franz Liszt's twelve Symphonic Poems. Directed by Liszt himself, the work was premiered on February 23, 1854, at a concert at the "Hoftheater" in Weimar. In April 1856 the score, and in January 1865 the orchestral parts,...
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- 1848
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Hunnenschlacht
Hunnenschlacht (English: The Battle of the Huns), S.105, is a symphonic poem by Franz Liszt, written in 1857 after a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
The painting depicts the battle of the Catalaunian Fields in 451 A.D., where the...
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Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1
Hungarian Rhapsody Number 1 is the first of a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt. Work on the piece began in 1846 in Klausenberg, and it was published in 1853. The piece, like many in the set, is composed in the csárdás style,...
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Don Sanche
Don Sanche, ou Le château de l'amour (English: Don Sanche, or The Castle of Love), S.1, is an opera in one act composed in 1824-25 by Franz Liszt, with French libretto by Théaulon and de Rancé, based on a story by Claris de Florian. For 30 years it...
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Ballade No. 1
Ballade No. 1 in D flat major, S.170, is a solo piano piece by the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. In the original edition it contained the title "Le Croisse" or "The Crusader".
The piece contains two themes with a short introductory passage. The...
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Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne
Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (S.95), sometimes referred to as 'Bergsymphonie', is the first of thirteen symphonic poems by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. It is an orchestral work inspired by the poem Feuilles d'automne (1831) by Victor Hugo.
The...
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Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H
Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H (also in the first version known as Präludium und Fuge über das Motiv B-A-C-H, title in English: Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H) (S.260i/ii [1st/2nd version], S.529i/ii [piano arr. of 1st/2nd version]...
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Beethoven Symphonies
Beethoven Symphonies (French: Symphonies de Beethoven), S.464, is a set of nine transcriptions for solo piano by Franz Liszt after Ludwig van Beethoven's orchestral symphonies.
Liszt began the work in 1838, but at that time only completed Nos. 5, 6...
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Feuilles d'album
Feuille d'Album (S.165) is a solo piano piece by Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, composed in 1841 and published in 1844.
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- 1841
Variation on a waltz by Diabelli
Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli (French: Variation sur une valse de Diabelli), S.147, is a variation by Franz Liszt composed in 1822 and published in late 1823 or early 1824 as Variation No. 24 of Part II of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, a...
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- 1822
Prometheus
Franz Liszt composed his Prometheus in 1850, numbering it No. 5 in his cycle of symphonic poems when he revised it in 1855. The work is based on the Greek myth, Prometheus and is numbered S99 in the Searle catalogue.
In 1850, Franz Liszt composed an...
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- 1855
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Piano Concerto No. 3
Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major Op. posth. (S.125a), was possibly composed in 1839. It is said that this piece was composed before the first two concertos, but the date is inconclusive as there are claims it was not finished until...
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Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos ad salutarem undam
The Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam, S.259, is a piece of organ music composed by Franz Liszt in the winter of 1850 when he was in Weimar. It was dedicated to Giacomo Meyerbeer who was the composer of the chorale "Ad nos,...
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Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat major is the sixth work of the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies composed by Franz Liszt. This work was dedicated to Count Antoine of Appony and uses the form of Lassan and Friska like many other rhapsodies. The piece was...
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Czárdás
The three czárdás that Franz Liszt wrote in 1881-2 and 1884 are solo piano pieces based on the Hungarian dance form of the same name. Liszt treats the dance form itself much less freely than he did much earlier with the verbunkos in the Hungarian...
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Mephisto Polka
The Mephisto Polka (S217) is a piece of program music written in folk-dance style for solo piano by Franz Liszt in 1882-3. The work's program is the same as that of the same composer's four Mephisto Waltzes, written respectively in 1859-60, 1880-81,...
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Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's opera Almira
Franz Liszt composed his transcription of the Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's opera Almira for piano solo (S.181) in 1879 for his English piano student Walter Bache. The Almira transcription is noted by critics as one of the most striking of...
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Hungarian Fantasy
The Hungarian Fantasy (Fantasia on Hungarian Folk melodies; Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien) for piano and orchestra is an arrangement of the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 written by Franz Liszt in 1852. The work was premiered in Pest on June 1,...
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- 1852
Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo
Franz Liszt composed his Tasso, Lamento e trionfo (Tasso, Lament and Triumph) in 1849, revising it in 1850-51 and again in 1854. It is numbered No. 2 in his cycle of 13 symphonic poems written during his Weimar period.
Liszt's first sketch for this...
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Orpheus
Franz Liszt composed his Orpheus in 1853-4, numbering it No. 4 in his cycle of 12 symphonic poems written during his time in Weimar, Germany. It was first performed on February 16, 1854, conducted by the composer, as an introduction to the first...
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Hungaria
Franz Liszt wrote his symphonic poem Hungaria in 1854, basing it partly on the Heroic March in the Hungarian Style for piano which he wrote in 1840. It was premiered under Liszt's baton at the Hungarian National Theater in Budapest on September 8,...
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