Franz Liszt: Partituras dificil

These piano studies, fully worked out in summer 1848, but presumably sketched earlier, were published in the German original edition at the beginning of 1849 simply with the numbering 1-3. In the fir...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies are in the same tradition as his transcriptions of opera or song themes, but in this case the point of departure is folk dances and songs. Liszt described no. 2 of his Hungari...

Looking back in 1876, Liszt admitted candidly to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel that his 'Wagner transcriptions' had 'only served as modest propaganda for Wagner's noble genius, using the meagre pos...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies stand in the tradition of his transcriptions of operatic or song melodies, yet employ folk dances and songs as their source material. Completed in 1864, Rhapsodie espagnole is...

Just like the third, the Fourth Hungarian Rhapsody, also issued in 1853, is based on a piano piece previously published as a Hungarian National Melody. In the course of his editing, Liszt intensified...

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...

Como fan declarado de Schubert, a Franz Liszt también le gustaba tocar transcripciones de canciones de Schubert en sus recitales de piano. Inicialmente tenía en su repertorio un arreglo de la "Trucha"...

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...

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...

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...

Desde la década de 1830, numerosos compositores han experimentado con formas híbridas que combinan elementos de la sinfonía, el concierto y la fantasía libre. Con su Segundo concierto para piano, Lisz...

Liszt wrote his two Ballades in 1845-49 and 1853 during a time of personal turmoil. The successful virtuoso increasingly saw himself as a composer who strove after formal clarity, as shown by the B mi...

At last these two highlights of Liszt's piano output are available in a good value 'Urtext'! Every pianist knows the poetic, highly virtuosic legends about Liszt's famous namesakes, 'St. Francis of As...

Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform.

Meilenstein der Klavierliteratur Liszts 1854 erschienener Sonate in h-Moll kommt innerhalb der Gattung Klaviersonate überragende Bedeutung zu. Bärenreiter legt das Werk - nach wie vor pianistische Her...

This volume reproduces directly from an authoritative Russian edition the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt's pianistic achievement.