Liszt: Schubert Song Transcriptions 2

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Release Date: 04 January 2001

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Genres: Classical

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Franz Liszt(1811-1886)Complete Piano Music,Volume 17 Schubert Song Transcriptions 2\In his transcriptions of Schubert songs he created a new farm. That ishis successful attempt to render the melodic and harmonic beauty of the newclassical song as a lyrical whole on the piano alone, perfecting this in thestrength of the song and of declamation, without in any way sacrificing therich resources of the keyboard in his hands.Carlo (Pietro Mechetti)Wiener Zeitschrift f??r Kunst, 7th December, 1839Born at Raiding, in Hungary, in 1811, the son of Adam Liszt, a stewardin the service of Haydn's former patrons, the Esterhazy Princes, Franz Liszthad early encouragement from his father's employers and other members of theHungarian nobility, allowing him in 1822 to move from his birth-place ofRaiding to Vienna, for lessons with Czerny and a famous meeting with Beethoven,and from Vienna to Paris. There Cherubini refused him admission to theConservatoire, but he was able to impress audiences by his performance, nowsupported by the Erard family, piano manufacturers whose wares he was able toadvertise in the concert tours on which he embarked. In 1827 Adam Liszt died,and he was now joined again by his mother in Paris, while using his time toteach, to read and benefit from the intellectual society with which he cameinto contact. His interest in virtuoso performance was renewed when he heardthe great violinist Paganini, whose technical accomplishments he now set out toemulate.The years that followed brought a series of compositions, includingtranscriptions of songs and operatic fantasies, part of the stock-in-trade of avirtuoso. His relationship with a married woman, the Comtesse Marie d'Agoult,led to Liszt's departure from Paris for years of travel abroad, first toSwitzerland, then back to Paris, before leaving for Italy, Vienna and Hungary.By 1844 his relationship with his mistress, the mother of his three children,was at an end, but his concert activities continued until 1847, the year in whichhis relationship began with Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, a Polish heiress,the estranged wife of a Russian prince. The following year he settled with herin Weimar, the city of Goethe, turning his attention now to the development ofa newer form of orchestral music, the symphonic poem, and, as always, to therevision and publication of earlier compositions.It was in 1861, at the age of fifty, that Liszt moved to Rome, followingPrincess Carolyne, who had settled there a year earlier. Divorce and annulmentseemed to have opened the way to their marriage, but they now continued to livein separate apartments in the city. Liszt eventually took minor orders anddeveloped a pattern of life that divided his time between Weimar, where heimparted advice to a younger generation, Rome, where he was able to pursue hisreligious interests, and Pest, where he returned now as a national hero. He died in 1886 in Bayreuth, where hisdaughter Cosima, widow of Richard Wagner, lived, concerned with
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