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| Composer : | Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886) | ||
| Instrumentation : | Organ solo | ||
| Style : | Romantic | ||
| Key : | F minor | ||
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| Publisher : | MACHELLA, MAURIZIO | ||
| Copyright : | Copyright © Machella Maurizio | ||
| Added by giordaniello, 15 Feb 2014 The Variations on "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" is another Bach-inspired work. Liszt took the chromatic bass line from the opening chorus of Bach's Cantata No. 12 and the very similar part from the Crucifixus of Bach's B-minor Mass as the basis for the work, which began life as a relatively simple prelude for solo piano in 1859. The text for the chorus begins "Tears, complaints, care, fear, anguish, and stress are the bitter bread of Christians," and when Liszt's daughter Blondine died in 1862 he expanded the prelude into an extended elegy, a set of 30 variations using the sinking chromatic line much as Bach would have in a passacaglia, a Baroque form of continuous variation. Liszt transcribed the work for organ in 1863, after he had moved to Rome in the final, fruitless throes of the long quest to have Carolyne's marriage annulled. He incorporates some of the soprano part of Bach's chorus in a syncopated form in the sixth variation, after which he begins a very free elaboration, leading to a central section of more extroverted technical display. After the demonstrative 30th variation, a wayward recitative ushers in the chorale tune from the final movement of the cantata, "Was Gott tut, das ist wohl getan" (What God Does, Is Done Well). So, like the cantata, Liszt's variations reverse the sighing sorrow of its beginning, ending with hopeful affirmation. ( source: https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/4462/variations-o n-a-basso-continuo-from-the-cantata-weinen-klagen-sorge n-zagen ) | |||
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