Liszt - Transcendental Etudes Urtext Book

Franz Liszt - Transcendental Etudes Urtext Book 📚

Urtext Edition

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.

This set of twelve études represents the results of the composer’s own revision of a collection already published in 1827 and 1839. Accordingly, the principal source for our edition was a printed copy of the earlier version with myriad changes in the composer’s hand.

Each of these pieces, including the famous “Harmonies du soir” and “Mazeppa”, bears its own title and has entered the concert repertoire less as an étude than as a tone-poem with its own distinctive flavour. 132 pages. 

Song Titles Include:

• Preludio
• Molto vivace
• Paysage
  
• Mazeppa
  
• Feux Follets
  
• Vision
  
• Eroica
  
• Wilde Jagd
  
• Ricordanza
  
• Piano 8 difficult
  
• Allegro agitato molto
• Harmonies du soir
  
• Chasse-neige
  

AMEB:

Piano / Licentiate / List C

• Ricordanza No. 9 from Etudes d'execution transcendante S 139/L A172

Franz Liszt

The most famous piano virtuoso of the nineteenth century is regarded as the most influential artist and composer (with Berlioz, Wagner) of the so-called New German School. His immense musical oeuvre comprises, above all else, works for solo piano, including numerous transcriptions; he also devised the symphonic poem. Important, too, are his sacred and secular choral works and songs.

1811	Born in Doborján/Raiding (Sopron) on October 22, son of an official in the service of Prince Esterházy. First piano lessons from his father, early first attempts at composition, first public performance at age nine.
1822	Relocation of the family to Vienna, studies with Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri.
1823	Relocation of the family to Paris. Composition studies with Ferdinando Paër and Antonín Reicha (1826). Performances in salons, concerts.
1824–27	Concert tours through France, to England and Switzerland. Composition of opera paraphrases for piano.
1830	Acquaintance with Berlioz, self-study by reading. He becomes Parisian society’sfavourite pianist and piano teacher.
1835	He moves to Switzerland with Countess Marie d’Agoult: their first child together, Blandine-Rachel, is born here. He continues concertizing in Paris.
from 1839	Continuous concert tours throughout Europe.
from 1847	Symphonic poems, including No. 2, “Tasso: lamento e trionfo”; No. 1, “Ce qu‘on entend sur la montagne” (‘Bergsymphonie,’ ‘Mountain Symphony’); “A Faust Symphony in Three Character Pictures”; “A Symphony to Dante’s Divine Comedy” (‘Dante Symphony’); as well as [No. 11], “Hunnenschlacht” (“Battle of the Huns”).
1848–61	Kapellmeister in Weimar; he advocates for progressive music (Wagner, Schumann, Berlioz).
1857–62	Oratorio, “The Legend of St. Elisabeth.”
1861–68	Resident in Rome.
1865	Takes minor holy orders.
1866–72	Oratorio, “Christus.”
1871	Appointed Hungarian court councilor; he lives in Rome, Weimar, and Budapest.
1886	Death in Bayreuth on July 31.