Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ20004A
Complete Edition.
Composed by Liszt Ferenc.
EMB New Listz Edition.
Studies & Exercises. Book
Hardcover. Composed 2021.
240 pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ20004A.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ20004A).
English-German-Hungari
an.
Supplementary
Volume 16 of the New
Liszt Edition contains
free arrangements and
technical exercises. In
the first section can be
found early versions of
three arrangements. The
first consists of the
first and intermediary
versions of a
transcription of Die
Rose, a song Schubert
composed to a poem by
Schlegel. The arrangement
of the second movement of
Berlioz's Harold Symphony
also draws on literary
inspiration: Lord Byron's
(1788-1824) narrative
poem Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage (1812-18) was
a literary experience
Liszt shared with
Berlioz. The fantasy on
themes from Bellini's
opera La sonnambula [The
Sleepwalker] (here the
first version of 1842,
and the second version
dating from the following
decade are given) is
important in music
history because it was
while he worked on this
(and other operatic
fantasies) that Liszt
developed a new concept
of the form, which took
shape in more complex and
more concentrated
fantasies than before.
Particularly interesting
material can be found in
the appendix. In addition
to sketches and drafts
for arrangements of
Spanish themes, there are
three sources published
here for the first time,
which shed light on
technical aspects of
Liszt's piano teaching.
These are three sets of
exercises: the first
written by Liszt himself
for Valérie Boissier
in 1832; the second a
copy in an unidentified
hand from the same period
or slightly later; and
finally the third which
was noted down in 1871 by
Henri Maréchal in Rome
based on the composer's
dictation. This latest
volume of the New Liszt
Edition includes a
detailed preface in
German, English, and
Hungarian containing new
research findings,
together with five
manuscript facsimiles and
critical notes.
Simultaneously with the
cloth-bound Complete
Edition, a practical
paperback version has
been published, the
contents of which are
identical to those of the
hardcover edition, minus
the inclusion of critical
notes.
Harold L
