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About the Composer

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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.

1811Born 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.
1822Relocation of the family to Vienna, studies with Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri.
1823Relocation of the family to Paris. Composition studies with Ferdinando Paër and Antonín Reicha (1826). Performances in salons, concerts.
1824–27Concert tours through France, to England and Switzerland. Composition of opera paraphrases for piano.
1830Acquaintance with Berlioz, self-study by reading. He becomes Parisian society’sfavourite pianist and piano teacher.
1835He moves to Switzerland with Countess Marie d’Agoult: their first child together, Blandine-Rachel, is born here. He continues concertizing in Paris.
from 1839Continuous concert tours throughout Europe.
from 1847Symphonic 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”).
1848–61Kapellmeister in Weimar; he advocates for progressive music (Wagner, Schumann, Berlioz).
1857–62Oratorio, “The Legend of St. Elisabeth.”
1861–68Resident in Rome.
1865Takes minor holy orders.
1866–72Oratorio, “Christus.”
1871Appointed Hungarian court councilor; he lives in Rome, Weimar, and Budapest.
1886Death in Bayreuth on July 31.

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About the Authors

Peter Jost (Editor)

Dr. Peter Jost, born in 1960 in Diefflen/Saar, read musicology, German and comparative studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He did his PhD in 1988 with a thesis on Robert Schumann’s Waldszenen.

From November 1991 to April 2009 he was a research associate at the Richard Wagner Complete Edition in Munich, and since May 2009 has been an editor at G. Henle Publishers. His Urtext editions comprise predominantly French music of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Lalo, Saint-Saëns and Ravel.

Allein schon das Vorwort von Peter Jost, in dem der Autor ausführlich auf die recht komplizierte Entstehungs- und Editionsgeschichte eingeht, ist fast dreimal so lang wie das von Ewald Zimmermann in der alten Ausgabe. Überdies wartet die Neuedition mit einem weitaus detaillierteren kritischen Bericht auf, in dem so ziemlich alles niedergelegt ist, was man über die verschiedenen Quellen und Lesarten wissen sollte. Auch dass man die teils in englischer, teils in französischer Sprache abgefassten Mottos im Notenteil übersetzt und Etienne de Sénancours Abhandlung „Über den romantischen Ausdruck und über den Kuhreigen“ zur Gänze abgedruckt hat, wird jeder, der sich mit dem Zyklus auseinandersetzt, zu schätzen wissen.

Piano News, 2021

Zoals we van Henle gewend zijn is ook deze Urtext zeer muzikaal vormgegeven – je hoeft alleen al naar de zestienden golfslag van het Lac de Wallenstadt te kijken om vast te stellen dat men het niet gemakzuchtig bij een standaardweergave vanuit de software heeft gehouden, maar dat er grote zorg is besteed aan de weergave van het verschillend karakter van de bewegingen in linker- en rechterhand.

de nieuwe muze, 2021

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