Franz Liszt

A diferencia de los dos primeros volúmenes de los Années de pèlerinage, basados en impresiones de viajes por Suiza e Italia, el tercer volumen de la última época de Liszt, publicado en 1883, es más bi...

En el segundo volumen, "Italie", del tríptico "Années de pèlerinage", que vio la luz en 1858, los grandes nombres del arte y la poesía italianos ocupan un lugar central. Entre ellos figura también Dan...

La octava Rapsodia húngara, publicada en 1853, trata temas que Liszt conoció durante su visita a Hungría en 1846: una canción folclórica, una melodía de baile popular de la época y un csárdás. La nº 8...

La Rapsodia húngara n.° 10 10, publicada en 1853, se basa en una composición de Béni Egressy. En aquella época, el compositor nacional húngaro dirigía una de las más famosas bandas de los llamados git...

Los "Estudios trascendentales" de Liszt de 1852 figuran sin duda entre los triunfos de la música virtuosa para piano, y su lenguaje visionario y expresión poética los convierten en un hito de la era r...

Between 1837-39 Liszt was travelling through Italy with Marie d'Agoult. As was the case with the first volume of the Années de Pèlerinage, Schweiz (1835/36) he once again recorded his travel impressio...

Franz Liszt is still regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time: a superb virtuoso whose own piano works also bristle with extreme technical difficulties. But no one needs to be afraid of bi...

Franz Liszt no sólo escribió una serie de paráfrasis de ópera durante sus años de virtuoso, sino que también compuso algunas en sus años de Weimar, a partir de 1848. Sin embargo, no las escribió para...

Liszt's most important piano work was written in 1853, during a time of great compositional productivity and at the same time as the Ballade in B minor. It has something in common with the latter work...

Franz Liszt was a Schubert fan his whole life. In his concerts he performed Schubert’s songs in transcriptions for piano solo with such great effect that publishers also took notice. Thus, from 1838,...

Liszt's 'Transcendental Studies' of 1852 are without doubt among the triumphs of virtuoso piano music, and their visionary language and poetic expression make them a milestone of the romantic age. Thi...

Liszt's Funérailles is a broadly conceived, virtuoso funeral march that has found a permanent place in the repertoire of all great pianists while remaining within the reach of talented amateurs. This...

When Liszt took over the direction of the Court Opera in Weimar, he spent a great deal of time exploring Goethe's works. He was particularly attracted to the subject-matter of Faust. He used Nikolaus...

We have begun with numbers 2 and 6: in the coming years we will be producing editions of all of Franz Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies', brilliant pianistic excesses and a favourite with all virtuosos. H...

Liszt's ninth Rhapsody is the 'Carnival at Pest' - one of the few Hungarian Rhapsodies to which he gave a name. Once again Liszt turns to Hungarian folk melodies and fuses them with improvisatory elem...

This work, in which Liszt draws on five different folk themes, is surely one of his most ingenious Hungarian Rhapsodies. It offers a unique mix of melancholy, glittering keyboard acrobatics and stormy...

The Rákóczi march is often referred to as the 'Hungarian Marseillaise'. The beginnings of this march song go back to around 1730. In the text, the Hungarians summon Franz II Rákóczi to free his people...

The 'Valses oubliées' belong to Liszt's late work, characterised by themes such as memory, sorrow and grief. They do not form a cycle but were written as separate pieces between 1881 and 1884. The tit...

Often referred to by pianists as the 'Dante Sonata', it is the closing piece in the second volume of the 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 174) and is now finally available as a single edition. In 1839, whil...

Liszt's piano cycle 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses' (HN 639) was inspired by religious-philosophical poems of the French Romantic Alphonse de Lamartine. Whereas the cycle as a whole remained comp...

About three years after the publication of the second volume of his 'Années de Pèlerinage' (Italy), Liszt added a supplement to this collection: the triptych 'Venezia e Napoli'. For this he reworked t...

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Saint-Saens, Camille (1835 - 1921)