Among Franz Liszt’s many brilliant compositions for piano, few have been so admired and performed as the Sonata in B Minor, long considered one of the greatest piano compositions of the 19th century. A work of consummate structural ingenuity, it combines and transforms four distinctive themes in one long movement, in the free, rhapsodic development characteristic of the symphonic poem.
A great favorite of pianists and their audiences, this piano masterpiece is reprinted here from the authoritative Franz Liszt-Stiftung edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel. Included with it are a number of other well-known Liszt compositions. Among these are the six beautiful pieces entitled Consolations; all ten works in the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, including the popular ‘Funérailles’; the two Ballades, larger-scale works which require considerable technical prowess; and the two Légendes, ‘The Sermon to the Birds of St. Francis of Assisi’ and ‘St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves.’
Table of Content
Editoria NotesSonata in B Minor (Dedicated to Robert Schumann)
‘Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses (Dedicated to Jeanne Elisabeth Carolyne, Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein)’
1. Invocation
2. Ave Maria
3. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
4. Pensée des morts
5. Pater noster
6. Hymne de l’enfant à son réveil
7. Funérailles
8. ‘Miserere, d’après Palestrina’
9. Andante lagrimoso
10. Cantique d’amour
Ballade No. 1 in D-flat Major (Dedicated to Prince Eugen Wittgenstein)
Ballade No. 2 in B Minor (Dedicated to Count Karl von Leiningen)
Consolations
I. (E Major) andante con moto
II. (E Major) Un poco più mosso
III. (D-flat Major) Lento placido
IV. (D-flat Major) Quasi adagio
V. (E Major) Andantino
VI. (E Major) Allegretto sempre cantabile
Légendes (Dedicated to Cosima von Bülow)
St. Francois d’Assise. La prédication aux oiseaux
St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots
About the author
Composer, conductor, and teacher Franz Liszt (1811–86) was renowned throughout Europe for his skills as a concert pianist. The quintessential romantic, he created an extensive and diverse oeuvre that ranges from influential experiments in musical form to more conventional pieces as well as transcriptions of works by other composers.
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